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LogicMonitor Ties Into Amazon Web Services

socalTECH

Santa Barbara-based LogicMonitor , which develops IT infrastructure monitoring software, said today that it has connected its tools to Amazon Web Services. The company said its platform now has the ability to monitor Amazon Web Services instances and services.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform. It's funny.

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DreamHost Readies Wider OpenStack Rollout

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Los Angeles-based web and cloud hosting provider DreamHost looks to be readying its OpenStack cloud offering, DreamCompute, for wider consumption, after showing off the service at the OpenStack Summit in Portland last week. DreamHost has been offering the service in beta since October of last year. READ MORE>>.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Social Networking in Web 1.0. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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Interview with Gil Elbaz, Factual

socalTECH

Gil Elbaz: What we have been working on, and what we offer now, is a platform where anyone can share and mash open data. That data can be on any subject--we're a horizontal platform--and a few of the examples you see on our site are a list of restaurants, things in the health space, and other partnerships. Is this similar?

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

Both Sides of the Table

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. I used to recommend that companies only keep their non-core data on S3, I now recommend it whole-heartedly even for mission-critical applications. Cloud Data Platform.

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