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DreamHost Readies Wider OpenStack Rollout

socalTECH

DreamHost also has been promoting its DreamObjects service, a cloud-based storage offering that is similar to Amazon''s S3 storage services, and which is powered by DreamHost spinout Ceph''s cloud storage platform. dreamhost cloud computing openstack dreamobjects dreamcompute morphlabs metacloud mediatemple'

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform. It's funny.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

When we talk about cloud computing we have to be careful to differentiate between open cloud (services the are provided solely to for the economic purpose of building a cloud business) and the “platform cloud&# where certain service providers offer cloud services wrapped around their core product.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. Cloud Data Platform. And then came the debate about storage. I was dead set against it.

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