Xconomy

MAY 17, 2018

San Antonio —Cloud computing giant Rackspace has acquired a company that helps other businesses implement and use the Salesforce software. The deal expands Rackspace’s focus on helping companies use software and computing services, including those of previous competitors.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing service of Amazon, has launched anew Los Angeles zone, which will give local customers and companies much faster access to the AWS cloud.

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socalTECH

MAY 13, 2014

Pasadena-based Metacloud , the provider of OpenStack-based private cloud deployment services, said it has begun supporting what is called Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) networking support. According to Metacloud, the move eliminates the typical scalability problems found in large cloud computing environments. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2010

Cloud computing is all the rage in the startup world these days. A typical definition (from Wikipedia) is that “cloud computing, is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, like a public utility.”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Santa Barbara-based cloud deployment software developer RightScale said Thursday that it has added three new customers, bringing its total number of software-as-a-service providers to more than 100. RightScale's software is used by software-as-a-service companies to manage updates and deployment of their software into the cloud.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Los Angeles-based private equity firm The Gores Group has acquired cloud computing consulting and systems integrator Astadia , Gores said Monday. Astadia will be merged with Idea , a current portfolio company of The Gores Group. Financial details of the transaction were not announced.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2015

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project has launched two new products into beta, saying this week that it has launched DSP Builder and HFC2, both developed in the company''s "innovation lab". rubicon project beta hfc2 cloud infrastructure launch product research' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Los Angeles-based hosting company DreamHost is announcing this morning that it has raised $30M in a debt financing round, from Goldman Sachs. Terms of the loans were not announced by the company. DreamHost, which is led by Simon Anderson, said the funds will go towards accelerating customer growth worldwide. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Kazuhm says it is developing a platform which allows organizations to optimize its computing resources across the desktop, server, and cloud, tapping into unused processing power on all of those assets. Tim O'Neal, a former executive at Intuit, is CEO of Kazuhm.

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socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2018

In a move designed to attract more customers from the media and entertainment industry, Google said this week that it will be opening up a new Los Angeles cloud region to its cloud computing platform, Google Cloud.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 16, 2020

Now, the company has added to its haul with new capital and the cybersecurity expertise of Kleiner Perkins’ deep knowledge in the space through investors like Ted Schlein and Bucky Moore, who will be taking a seat on the company’s board of directors. and provided by the company. and provided by the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Power has been guiding growth companies for 25 years, and now teaches innovation at the Harvard Extension School.

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socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2016

Calabasas-based audio processing technology developer DTS is linking into Microsoft's cloud computing service, Microsoft Azure, according to the company. According to DTS, its content encoding technology will be available via the cloud through Microsoft Azure's Media Encoder Premium service. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2013

Santa Monica-based virtual server and cloud computing provider Infinitely Virtual announced this morning that it has completes its move of its backup data center from San Diego to Boston. The company also said it will begin building a primary hosting facility in Boston, which it says will support customers in mid-summer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world. Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

For all of the consumer adoption of the cloud, enterprise users are still not as bought into the vision of cloud computing as one might think they would be. So, how do you help ease enterprise customers into the cloud--or at least, help them use cloud technology to help them with their business goals?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Santa Barbara-based cloud deployment firms Eucalyptus Systems and RightScale have signed a joint customer, the firms said Tuesday. are using a combined solution from the companies, to launch and manage their own private and hybrid clouds. Financial details of the wins were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , the cloud computing software developer headed by Marten Mickos , has raised $30M in a Series C round of funding, the firm announced this morning. IVP's Steve Harrick joins the company's board. The firm will use the new funds for product innovation, sales, and customer support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2021

Today with the growing number of disruptive technologies available, like cloud computing, wireless sensors, Big Data, and mobile devices, an incremental solutions mindset is no longer enough to win. Put the customer at the center of your business concept. The customer, not the technology, is in control.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Power has been guiding growth companies for 25 years, and now teaches innovation at the Harvard Extension School.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The funding, which was led by Two Sigma Ventures and included existing investors like Plexo Capital, Amplify, and BoldStart values the company at over $100 million. Last year, the company unveiled its tools for managing Kubernetes deployments and immediately saw sales increase. “Once we started building on that success.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

But today, online companies that sell services rather than merchandise also need to be concerned about state sales taxes. Online service companies need to be aware of these potential tax traps so they are not surprised when a state tax agency comes knocking on their door.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , a developer of software for managing cloud computing infrastructure, said Wednesday that it has rolled out its first commercial offering, focused on enterprise customers. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 1, 2020

AWS today closed out its first re:Invent keynote with a focus on edge computing. The company launched two smaller appliances for its Outpost service , which originally brought AWS as a managed service and appliance right into its customers’ existing data centers in the form of a large rack.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. Enterprise cloud budgets are growing astronomically as companies adopt many cloud techniques. How did the idea for the company come about?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. I often answer the same way … * “First, yes, nearly every corner of our market is over-valued. By definition?—?I’m dot-com bonanza.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Mobile Apps enable businesses to relate to customers one-to-one. Customers can stream your companys content, shop for goods, search for local products and services, and receive personalized serviceall from their mobile phones. Wednesday, February 8, 2012 -- Mobile Apps: The New Direct-To-Consumer Channel.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

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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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

The Los Angeles-based app development shop, V/One , is giving away 50,000 free mobile app builds through the rest of April as the company officially launches its platform for would-be, LA-based mobile app moguls. Since its soft launch, December 20th of last year, the app development company has built over 100 new applications.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Conventional wisdom in most companies is that “the competition is the enemy&# – it’s the rallying cry to dig deeper, get more features out the door, issue press releases citing differences and attack the competition’s weaknesses in sales presentations. Of course they’re software.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

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. Alex earned a B.A.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Scott McCorkle has spent most of his professional career thinking about business to business software and how to improve it for a company’s customers. If customers are doing the things i want them to be doing through my product. . “MetaCX sits above any digital product,” McCorkle says.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world. Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

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.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The toughest aspect of such opportunities is weaning your company off these “bad profits” and focusing on opportunities that may not have an immediate payoff, but will drive long-term enterprise value. We know this is a feature that’s good for customers. Two Pizzas, One Meeting. Being Simpleminded Is A Good Thing. Let’s do it.’” .

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

From meager beginnings selling books online back in 1994, Amazon is currently the largest e-commerce retailer and cloud computing platform in the world, and now dominates even the giant Walmart. A platform is a business model and capability that can be accessed and customized by external users. Accept no excuses.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2015

Today, we have some thoughts from Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital , a private equity investment company in San Diego. What was the most significant event for you or your company this year? Then treat these customers well and great things will happen.maybe So how do you address these odds and win? maybe even 10x. READ MORE>>.

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