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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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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

socalTECH

We''re not using third party services such as Amazon S3, which just adds to your cost. Of course, SkyDrive has the huge marketing power of Microsoft behind it, though Dropbox is a startup. Number two, is our pricing. We host our own servers, and have over 3,000 servers with 30 petabytes of data on our own cloud.

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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. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

academic scientists, which is necessary to a point, of course. 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. John Culberson (R-TX).