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Pitching access management on the fly, Los Angeles-based Britive raises $5.4 million

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Both Poghosyan and Gudanis have long histories in identity and access management, back in 2009 Poghosyan founded Advancive Technology Solutions, which was acquired by Optiv in 2015 to bulk up its identity access management service.

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Grocery startup Mercato spilled years of data, but didn’t tell its customers

TechCrunch LA

A person with knowledge of the incident told TechCrunch that the incident happened in January after one of the company’s cloud storage buckets, hosted on Amazon’s cloud, was left open and unprotected. The company fixed the data spill, but has not yet alerted its customers.

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Future of The Cloud is Bright | Just Ask the Market

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Cloud solution adopters can increase available storage space, increase scalability, reduce administration complexity and slash the costs of personnel, hardware, power, cooling and the inevitable “end-of-life” data center upgrade cycle. The job market, too, will feel a significant impact from cloud computing technology.

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What I Learned in 2014: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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Build a great team that is focused on providing a unique product or service that offers something of great value that your customers simply cannot live without. What technologies or things are you looking forward to most in 2015? Then treat these customers well and great things will happen.maybe maybe even 10x.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Or would you like me to sell you a story on how cloud computing is green because these large datacenters are more energy efficient than the same number of computers run in ad-hoc ways? Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’ Computing is going the way of the electric grid. 5) It is 2015.

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The Five Major Tech Trends of 2016

Xconomy

The Continued Growth of Cloud. Early this year, IDC predicted that worldwide spending on public cloud services will be $141 billion in 2019, while last year Amazon Web Services achieved net sales of $7.88 Where security concerns may have previously put companies off cloud, the tide may now be turning.

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8 Key Rules for Starting a Business on a Shoestring

Startup Professionals Musings

Skip the costs of payroll, office equipment and employee benefits by using remote contract services and low-cost freelancers available online. Use low-cost subscription software and cloud computing. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/4/2015. The control is yours to keep.

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