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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Of course, there are still caveats - can they pass data security audits, what is your downtime risk and cost of downtime, what's the risk of the platform vendor. Compared cost there vs. second company that raised $500K and used S3 and other platforms.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis. I’m just in awe of what they’ve enabled and baffled that the media doesn’t give this more focus.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

academic scientists, which is necessary to a point, of course. and "new media" to connect with audiences. Related to this, one of my personal initiatives at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) is called Social Software for Security, or S3. What it will definitely do is fill the coffers of U.S.