Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market. But the strangest thing about the decline in the seed stage only happened in the seed stage.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We spoke with Neville about the company: What is theBlu? What we mean by that, is if you think about something like the Olympics, or the World Cup Soccer Finals, in that hundreds of millions of people are all focused on the same event, and are participating in a shared experience. That's an important element of what we're doing.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. They also are VERY interesting for background processing tasks that take compute resources or from a storage cloud standpoint.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

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.&#. Amazon will surely keep moving up the stack.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

However, TenHands’ “special sauce” is in its groundbreaking architecture as the 1st to deliver personal (desktop, mobile) video as a virtualized cloud computing solution and the 1st to commercialize WebRTC - the catalyst behind the effort to revolutionize the way we use our browsers to communicate.

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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. Pure excitement isn’t either.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

And then came the debate about storage. During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. Think about it. We all know about IMDB. Processing.

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