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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class. From day one we focused on customers.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. Many of the biggest customers wanted to be able to physically walk through our data center – how could I give up something so strategic? At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent.

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