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Storage Trends for 2018: Cloud Storage 2.0 Players Poised to Ascend

Xconomy

In March 2006, Amazon launched Simple Storage Service (S3). Although few people paid much attention at the time, the announcement of S3 marked the beginning of a great migration of data from on-premises storage to the cloud. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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DreamHost Readies Wider OpenStack Rollout

socalTECH

OpenStack is the set of open-source software designed to allow any hosting firm to offer up similar services to Amazon EC2; the OpenStack project was originally based on technology developed by Rackspace and has since spread widely to other ISPs. DreamHost has been offering the service in beta since October of last year. READ MORE>>.

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Nirvanix Steals Away Zynga CIO

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Debra Chrapaty, who formerly was CIO of Zynga, also served at Cisco as SVP of its Collaboration Software Group, in addition to working at Microsoft and E*TRADE Technologies. The company originally started as a provider of API-based cloud storage (ala Amazon S3) but in recent years has been focused on the enterprise area.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

Tech Zulu Event

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. On October 24th tech enthusiast will come together to discuss the latest in Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming. Now all we need is YOU to: Join us!

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Interview with Gil Elbaz, Factual

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Gil is one of the founders of Applied Semantics, the firm acquired by Google for its AdSense technology. We have improvement tools, and you can either use our technology or leverage the community to improve the data and clean that data. Gil Elbaz: We've been building up our back end and algorithmic technology team here in L.A.,

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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. In second venture - compared Salesforce.com vs. S3 - as platform.

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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

socalTECH

There''s a lot of technology behind the scene, including compression of data transfers, only sending modified blocks, and the threading aspects of our backups. There are many pieces of our technology that make us faster and more efficient. We''re not using third party services such as Amazon S3, which just adds to your cost.