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More Drama on the Cloud Price Wars Front

Tech Zulu Event

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that the cloud price wars have flared up once again. After taking a brief hiatus amidst nervous tensions, competition between cloud computing vendors has reached a fever pitch in the past month. Microsoft didn’t even attempt to compete price-wise with those announcements.

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8 Key Rules for Starting a Business on a Shoestring

Startup Professionals Musings

The bad news is that many are already doing it, with competition growing, so the longer you wait, the less chance you have of getting there first. You no longer need to travel to China or hire an expensive prototyping expert to mock up your new design. Use low-cost subscription software and cloud computing.

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Hyper-Speed, Hyper-Scale Advertising Automation Requires Hyper-Fast Hardware

Frank Addante

At Rubicon Project, we’ve engineered the world’s first real-time cloud computing technology. To support our real-time cloud, we’re custom engineering hardware, specifically thinking about hardware that’s designed and architected for real-time decisioning in milliseconds today, and microseconds in the future.

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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

InfoChachkie

Google) were initially based on open source elements, then refined to make it work reliably at huge scale, clearly demonstrating the relevance of open source for cloud computing. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! The earliest mega-scale web services (e.g.,

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Explaining FNAC: Feature, Not a Company

Both Sides of the Table

We spoke about my interest in cloud computing, digital media and mobile. I’ve spoken positively about their design simplicity, their UX flow and their marketing prowess. Yes, the competition going forward will be strong. It’s about 10 minutes long. It’s a market commentary, not a company commentary.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. The biggest change in the software industry beyond open-source was “open cloud.&#. I find this strange. And maddening.