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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

TechCrunch LA

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles. in Los Angeles.

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Insights and Opinions: A Cynic Predicts IT and Media in 2011

socalTECH

Markets will stay irrational longer than companies stay solvent. For example, data center companies will continue to take losses, go out of business, or get acquired on unfavorable terms even as all indications point to extreme shortages in data center space by 2013. Someone will found another content delivery company.

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Above the Cloud with Dave Linthicum | Shifting Perspectives on SaaS and Enterprise IT

Tech Zulu Event

Join us for a special evening with InfoWorld’s Dave Linthicum as he delves into global enterprise software trends with some of LA’s most successful SaaS and cloud computing companies. The opportunities cloud computing and SaaS afford management. Finding business agility in the cloud.

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Startup Lessons From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon

InfoChachkie

By 2012, total sales exceeded 50 million copies and founding band member Roger Waters was cited by Forbes as the second highest paid musician of the year, pulling in $88 million. Unfortunately, successful musicians seldom have the luxury of market testing their subsequent albums. Pay To Play.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

Tech Zulu Event

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Companies: Spotlight Companies. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program.

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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

InfoChachkie

DreamHost has a successful track record of incubating technologies in-house and then releasing them to the broader market. In 2012 the company rolled out Inktank, an innovative open source storage solution based on Ceph’s distributed file system, which was subsequently sold to Red Hat for $175 million.

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Arterys, GE Healthcare to Roll Out Next-Gen MRI Scans of Heart

Xconomy

Chicago-based GE Healthcare is now about to go to market with the new magnetic resonance imaging technique. Less than five years ago, those GPUs weren’t available from commercial cloud services, says Arterys co-founder and chief technology officer John Axerio-Cilies. “In market, the companies say.