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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

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. It’s contagious!”. 5) It is 2015.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

.&# What this meant was that rather than buying really expensive UNIX servers (and multiple machines in order to handle redundancy) we could buy cheap, replaceable servers for compute resources. 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.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

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. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance.

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

Tech Zulu Event

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. From a reliability & performance perspective for most applications it will perform beautifully. Processing.

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