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OTOY Launching Rendering Engine On Amazon EC2

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based cloud graphics company OTOY , a developer of cloud-based, game rendering engines, said Thursday that it will launch its Brigade path tracing and rendering technology to Amazon EC2. OTOY is led by Jules Urbach.

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DreamHost Readies Wider OpenStack Rollout

socalTECH

OpenStack is the set of open-source software designed to allow any hosting firm to offer up similar services to Amazon EC2; the OpenStack project was originally based on technology developed by Rackspace and has since spread widely to other ISPs.

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Eucalyptus Systems Ties With newScale, rPath

socalTECH

According to the firms, they are developing an integrated technology platform to give companies access to private and hybrid cloud computing in the enterprise. The firms said the integrated stack allows companies to create their own version of Rackspace or Amazon EC2 within their own companies.

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Frameworks Round 6

TechEmpower

The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. We are a small company and hiring opportunities are rare. Previously, the most fundamental test was JSON serialization of a very small object. We are hiring.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Round sizes of > $100 million or more now account for 47% of all VC dollars (62% if you count rounds > $50 million) This has made venture capital significantly more valuable for VCs and LPs who invest in the best companies As part of our study we noticed a trend many have spotted but few have explained?—?why

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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. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

“By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later.