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Living on the Edge: Amazon, AT&T, Packet Pursue “Cloudlet” Computing

Xconomy

The word “cloud”—as in cloud computing, and cloud storage—has served as a handy shorthand term, but it has always been inherently vague and a little misleading.

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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

SoCal CTO

Southern California Tech Central – Brings together posts from top bloggers around Southern California including John's blog and this blog. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. Meetup – My personal experience has been mixed with these.

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Future of The Cloud is Bright | Just Ask the Market

Tech Zulu Event

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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Ford’s Autonomic Pairs With Alibaba Cloud On Mobility Hub for China

Xconomy

Ford’s recently acquired unit Autonomic , which co-created the automaker’s Transportation Mobility Cloud (TMC), inked a deal Tuesday to partner with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing division of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

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

Xconomy

Cloudera and Hortonworks, two large, publicly traded companies that compete to offer Web-based data storage and analytics, announced plans today to merge into a combined entity they value at $5.2

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

Xconomy

Arterys feeds the gigabytes of MRI information into its Web-based software application, which takes advantage of the outside computing power now broadly available from the network of servers-for-hire we call “the cloud.” Arterys uses Amazon’s Web servers to analyze data from the scans. “A

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7 Steps Online Companies Can Take to Manage Sales Tax Exposure

Xconomy

The company receives biometric readings from patients, like blood pressure or glucose levels, and these readings are transmitted to the company via its Web platform. New York said that the company is providing taxable cloud computing services.

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