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DreamHost Readies Wider OpenStack Rollout

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Pricing on the cloud-based service has not been announced yet, but the release will further bolster the cloud offerings from DreamHost. dreamhost cloud computing openstack dreamobjects dreamcompute morphlabs metacloud mediatemple' READ MORE>>.

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RightScale Rolls Out Grid Computing Product

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Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the venture-backed developer of cloud computing management software backed by Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, said yesterday that it has launched a new product specifically focused on grid processing. Tags: rightscale grid computing cloud software saas. READ MORE>>.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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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. The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5 This trend so a huge rise in funds, dollars and deals in the seed category.

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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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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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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.&#.

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

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Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. I was dead set against it.

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