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DreamHost Readies Wider OpenStack Rollout

socalTECH

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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Eucalyptus Systems Ties With newScale, rPath

socalTECH

Santa Barbara-based Eucaplytus Systems , the cloud management software firm backed by New Enterprise Associates, Benchmark Capital and BV Capital, said earlier this week that it has linked up with newScale and rPath on a new private cloud platform.

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

Both Sides of the Table

The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively. 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.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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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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Interview with Neville Spiteri, TheBlu

socalTECH

You've got an interesting team - combination of deep technology, enterprise software, computer gaming, special effects, Hollywood - how did the team come together? It is the accessibility of cloud computing which has enabled you to create this? In 2009, I was convinced the time was right. That's a key change right there.

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

Both Sides of the Table

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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