Gartner Web Innovation Summit
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 -- Gartner Web Innovation Summit. Focused on the next generation of web technologies, including Web 2.0 See [link] (more).
Gartner Web Innovation Summit
SoCal Tech Calendar
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 -- Gartner Web Innovation Summit. Focused on the next generation of web technologies, including Web 2.0 See [link] (more).
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RightScale Rolls Out Grid Computing Product
socalTECH
APRIL 15, 2010
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. Pricing on the new product was not announced. READ MORE>>.
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RightScale Launches Hybrid, Private Cloud Management Software
socalTECH
JUNE 7, 2011
Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the cloud computing firm backed by Tenaya Capital, DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, and Presidio Ventures, said Tuesdya that it has launched a new product called RightScale myCloud.
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DreamHost Readies Wider OpenStack Rollout
socalTECH
APRIL 24, 2013
Los Angeles-based web and cloud hosting provider DreamHost looks to be readying its OpenStack cloud offering, DreamCompute, for wider consumption, after showing off the service at the OpenStack Summit in Portland last week. dreamhost cloud computing openstack dreamobjects dreamcompute morphlabs metacloud mediatemple'
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RightScale Partners With Content Management Firm
socalTECH
DECEMBER 17, 2009
Santa Barbara-based RightScale , a developer of cloud computing software, has linked with a London developer of enterprise content management software, Alfresco Software, the two said this week. RightScale develops software used to deploy software in Amazon Web Services and other cloud computing environments.
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133 RightScale Links With WaveMaker
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
Santa Barbara-based RightScale disclosed today that the firm has linked with WaveMaker Software, a developer of a framework for deploying web applications. WaveMaker and RightScale said that the two will integrate their products, allowing users who develop apps on WaveMaker to deploy them through RightScale's Cloud Management Platform.
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3Tera Rolls Out App Marketplace
socalTECH
MAY 19, 2009
Aliso Viejo-based 3Tera , a provider of cloud computing services and technology, said this week that it has rolled out a new marketplace for production-ready software. 3Tera runs a service which allows companies to virtually configure infrastructure and computing appliances, and pay for them per-use. READ MORE>>.
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The Changing Venture Landscape
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts. dot-com bonanza.
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Above the Cloud with Dave Linthicum | Shifting Perspectives on SaaS and Enterprise IT
Tech Zulu Event
MAY 28, 2013
Join us for a special evening with InfoWorld’s Dave Linthicum as he delves into global enterprise software trends with some of LA’s most successful SaaS and cloud computing companies. The opportunities cloud computing and SaaS afford management. Finding business agility in the cloud. Chief Digital Officers.
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Future of The Cloud is Bright | Just Ask the Market
Tech Zulu Event
MARCH 2, 2013
The advantages of the cloud are apparent whether you’re a multinational enterprise organization or an SMB. Businesses of all sizes are realizing cost savings, efficiencies and productivity gains they never thought possible. The job market, too, will feel a significant impact from cloud computing technology.
How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. Enterprise cloud budgets are growing astronomically as companies adopt many cloud techniques. Explain what Kazuhm does? What's your background?
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133 RightScale Lands $13M
socalTECH
DECEMBER 8, 2008
Santa Barbara-based RightScale said today that it has raised $13M, in a second round for the cloud computing software firm. RightScale is developing a cloud computing software platform based on Amazon's web services; the frim's product allows users to manage and deploy servers. READ MORE>>
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Interview with Neville Spiteri, TheBlu
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
Neville Spiteri is co-founder of Venice-based WEMO Media (www.wemomedia.com), a new, digital studio whose flagship product is TheBlu (www.theblu.com) an online, interactive experience focused on the world's oceans. Secondly, it's critical that we see the future of entertainment as being on the web, versus at the movie theater.
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208 Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems
InfoChachkie
OCTOBER 13, 2011
The most typical use case is a scalable web service. They have a number of mini-websites that they run for various products and campaigns and they cannot know which of those sites will need resources at any given point. With generation three of Eucalyptus, we are adding high availability into the actual product.
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212 Interview with Simon Anderson, DreamHost
socalTECH
DECEMBER 12, 2013
Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage.
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Interview with Winston Damarillo, Morphlabs
socalTECH
JULY 20, 2010
Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara. It's nice to see us covering all of these cloud-enabling types of technologies in Southern California for a change. We brought that to the U.S.
Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2012
And post production. I can’t say for sure, but it feels to me like the re-urbanization of technology companies is driven by a broader trend of the tech industry overall – cloud computing. And costume & set designers. And sound engineers. And writers! And even … yes … actors.
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What I Learned in 2014: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital
socalTECH
JANUARY 2, 2015
Build a great team that is focused on providing a unique product or service that offers something of great value that your customers simply cannot live without. Looking at the 21,600 venture deals done in the last decade -- 66% have returned 1x or less, 91% have returned 5x or less and only 0.7% achieved a market cap of $1 billion or more.
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Nirvanix Unveils NAS Solution
socalTECH
OCTOBER 13, 2008
San Diego-based Nirvanix said this morning that the firm's network attached storage (NAS) product, CloudNAS, is now available. The software, which combines cloud storage with a NAS server, was originally announced in June. The new product is targeted for use in backup and archiving.
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100 5 (More) Battle-Tested Business Tips From Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos
InfoChachkie
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
If improperly administered, meetings become counter-productive, especially as an organization grows beyond its initial startup phase. Web-based businesses must compete in the blinding light of total transparency. Thus, smaller meetings facilitate efficiency and accountability. Inch By Inch It''s A Cinch.
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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 22, 2010
This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. I believe that you need to have product excellence in order to scale to being a really big business and that’s pretty tough when you have such a wide remit.
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266 Thanks to our sponsors!
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 9, 2010
Brilliant web and iPhone app design. Joyent - An Enterprise Class Cloud Computing Company funded by Intel Capital, provides the most comprehensive cloud solution available today. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. Stubbs Alderton Markiles, LLP (www.biztechlaw.com).
App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP. But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products.
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Stealth Mode Is Bull$hit
InfoChachkie
AUGUST 19, 2013
Like the first-mover advantage, Stealth mode is a vestige of Silicon Valley''s past, when the cost to launch a company, including web-based businesses, required significant capital and customizedinfrastructure. Four Reasons To Avoid Stealth Mode. 2) Inhibits establishing stakeholder relationships.
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176 Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. Facebook is a “platform cloud&# provider, too.
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334 Arterys, GE Healthcare to Roll Out Next-Gen MRI Scans of Heart
Xconomy
OCTOBER 19, 2016
Arterys feeds the gigabytes of MRI information into its Web-based software application, which takes advantage of the outside computing power now broadly available from the network of servers-for-hire we call “the cloud.” Arterys uses Amazon’s Web servers to analyze data from the scans. “A
IT Skills that Facilitate Cloud and BYOD Adoption
Tech Zulu Event
FEBRUARY 2, 2015
A quick web search of items before their time will provide a long list of gadgets and machines rejected by our predecessors which are now shaping our future. There are a number of reasons an innovative product might fail. There are a number of reasons an innovative product might fail.
It’s Morning in Venture Capital
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude.
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347 The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 22, 2011
I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. Open standards that make it easier to plug into other products & services, creating a global bazaar. Socially connected individuals and platforms that enable faster roll-outs of successful products.
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386 The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch
SoCal Delicious
JANUARY 20, 2010
On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0
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29 Why Online / Offline Mobile Integration is Going to be a Huge Business
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 21, 2011
My background was 8 years of telecoms & mobile and 8 years of cloud computing & SaaS – so these two themes were a given. They recommend up-sells and cross-sells of products. Purchasing high-value or complex products is still way more effective person-to-person. Or can they? They’re not.
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Ten Startup Tips From Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos
InfoChachkie
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
At Expertcity (creator of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting, acquired by Citrix), our VP of Product and Customer Experience led a number of teams during his seven-year tenure including Professional Services, Customer Service and Product Management. Web-based businesses must compete in the blinding light of total transparency.
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UnVenture Capitalists: Seek Investors Aligned With Your Interests, Not Their Egos
InfoChachkie
NOVEMBER 9, 2010
It was the fact that the Seven-Up Company defined its product by describing what it was not , via the “UnCola” label. Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL , the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000.
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Entrepreneurs Should Go For The Quick Buck – Then Stop - Initial Business Models Can Be Enticing But Limiting In The Long Run
InfoChachkie
APRIL 28, 2011
WebEx was the early leader in web meetings. Cloud computing pioneer RightScale is a prime example of a company which utilized a consultative go-to-market strategy as a means of funding its initial operations. In the short-term, such opportunities are enticing. Scaling Right. Graph The Effect.
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225 TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
where he led the incubated startup to $300m in revenues as the fastest growing Service Provider for Collaboration services to include video, web, and audio. The result is a 2Mbyte royalty free plug-in that is remarkably easy to integrate with other web-based applications. How unique are you from the competition if you have any?
Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 9, 2010
We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there. Processing.
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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking
Tech Zulu Event
AUGUST 13, 2010
Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Have you ever had an idea for a great product, but thought any of the following: "I don't have en. Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. The constrai.
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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 20, 2011
GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Leveraging mobile application and online platform.
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102 Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 28, 2011
GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program.
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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 16, 2012
“As voice API, voice broadcast and text messaging technology advances and cloud computing becomes increasingly sophisticated, more and more business – across all core market sectors — are discovering why cloud telephony is the future,” said Dinesh Ravishanker, CEO and co-founder, CallFire.
UnVenture Capitalists: Seek Investors Aligned With Your Interests, Not Their Egos
InfoChachkie
NOVEMBER 9, 2010
It was the fact that the Seven-Up Company defined its product by describing what it was not , via the “UnCola” label. Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL , the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000.
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157 Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 28, 2011
GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program.
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