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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Finally we get to: Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com His premise is that we should be beyond having to buy servers, software, or any other infrastructure. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing.

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Interview with Dale Quayle, FileTrek

socalTECH

To address that, Los Angeles-based FileTrek (www.filetrek.com) announced a funding round for its cloud-based software for sharing enterprise and business files yesterday. What our software does, is it allows that collaboration to take place, but also keeps track of that. We also have a web experience, and we host that on Amazon EC2.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. Imagine that you can develop software on your local computer but the entire service is delivered virtually through a partner in the same way people consumer energy with all of the scale benefits that go with that. Think about it.

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