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Cloudera, Hortonworks Plan To Merge As $5.2B Cloud Data Platform

Xconomy

The goal of the combined entity is to provide a leading data platform. Palo Alto, CA-based Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR ) and Santa Clara, CA-based Hortonworks (NASDAQ: HDP ) said they expect the merger to close during the first quarter of 2019 if it passes an antitrust review. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Google partners with Sony Pictures Imageworks to launch an open source VFX render manager

TechCrunch LA

Google, of course, is interested in bringing these workloads to its cloud and it has made a concerted effort to bring the Hollywood studios to its Cloud Platform. That includes the launch of its Los Angeles cloud region last year, as well as its acquisition of the Zync cloud renderer back in 2014.

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5 (More) Battle-Tested Business Tips From Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos

InfoChachkie

Every time Amazon made a change to its website, whether it be modifications to its customer acquisition funnel, upsell techniques, customer service, etc., These small, back-office changes eventually led to the technological expertise underlying Amazon Web Services (AWS), by far the most successful public cloud computing platform.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

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. It’s contagious!”. 5) It is 2015.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. Our platform helps them do that.

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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Every Successful Entrepreneur Should Expect The “Million Dollar Question”

InfoChachkie

A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. The company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding. The key is to determine if your company’s solution is a feature, a point solution product, or a platform.

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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Every Successful Entrepreneur Should Expect The “Million Dollar Question”

InfoChachkie

A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. The company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding. The key is to determine if your company’s solution is a feature, a point solution product, or a platform.