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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

All businesses need to have access to the scale, cost structure, and flexibility that the Amazons, Googles, and Facebooks of the world have built internally. By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. From day one we focused on customers. Cats or dogs?

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Clash of the Titans: Google joins Apple, Microsoft in announcing new tablets (and more). Google Plus. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was named one of Fortune’s 10 Brilliant Technology Visionaries for 2012 alongside the great and powerful Oz’s of Apple and Google. 20 hrs ago. Apple event rumor round-up: iPad Mini, iPad 3.5,