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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

InfoChachkie

To update Marc Andreessen’s widely publicized quote from 2011, “OpenStack Software Defined Networks (SDNs) are eating the world.” In the mid 1960’s, large mainframe manufacturers, such as IBM, Burroughs and Honeywell, provided complete IT solutions. The earliest mega-scale web services (e.g., Eating The World – All Over Again.

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How FatCloud Is Bringing NoSQL To The World of Microsoft

socalTECH

Every time they did a distributed, web-based project, they realized they were reinventing the wheel. That system was launched as its own, separate company in late 2011. I was running the Far East for Sequent, then IBM bought them and moved them to the States. FatCloud was originally born out of solving their own problems.

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First Ever Startup Weekend Orange County Live!

Tech Zulu Event

in venture capital and publicly launched in May 2011. He also helped accelerate growth at Eventbrite, Socialcast, Webs, World Golf Tour, WordPress.com and Songkick in hands-on marketing advisory roles. He has served on advisory committees for Microsoft, IBM, Novell, and Cisco. Based in Newport Beach, CatchFree has raised $5.5m

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Interview with Jon Ferrara on Nimble, The Microsoft Accelerator, And The Cloud

socalTECH

Businesses in 2009, 2010, and 2011, when they wanted to start a business, they didn't buy a Novell or use Exchange. Back in the day, no one could fail if they bought IBM for computers, and Microsoft for software. There are none of those resellers for Amazon Web Services or Google. Explain that?

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. Has nothing changed since the early days of IBM? Maybe you could get v1.0 This should not deter you. So what gives?

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

I’m starting to spend my time evaluating companies that can help brands simultaneously build within the fortress but also maintain social value in the open web. was the first president to understand television, and Howard Dean saw the value of the Web for raising money. On the open web. This election will be about jobs.