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Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Software: Start-ups in the Cloud ?? Challenges and Opportunities

SoCal Tech Calendar

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. The global cloud computing market is expected to grow at a compounded annual rate of 28 percent from $47 billion in 2008 to $126 billion by 2012, according to IBM based on various market estimates. Keynote Speaker: Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research,Salesforce.com.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. They also are VERY interesting for background processing tasks that take compute resources or from a storage cloud standpoint.

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