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DreamHost Readies Wider OpenStack Rollout

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Pricing on the cloud-based service has not been announced yet, but the release will further bolster the cloud offerings from DreamHost. DreamHost was named one of the "hottest products" by industry publication at the show, and apparently is getting set for general availability of the service this summer. READ MORE>>.

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RightScale Rolls Out Grid Computing Product

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The new software connects into Amazon AWS, and its EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), SQS (Simple Queue Service), and S3 (Simple Storage Service) to coordinate grid processing. Pricing on the new product was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market. The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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.&# They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis. They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).