socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. Enterprise cloud budgets are growing astronomically as companies adopt many cloud techniques. Explain what Kazuhm does?

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Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

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JUNE 28, 2011

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. Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara.

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Southern California Startup Cloud Computing El Segundo 242

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MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. In fact, the majority of Americans are now carrying computers in their front pockets.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

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MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. Aside from attacking yet another market segment all I could think about is, “Why enter the web conferencing market. Isn’t WebEx already dead man walking? billion).

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

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. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. We raised $16.5 million in our A round. Hardware ate just over 10% of the round.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343