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IDrive Connects With AWS

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Los Angeles-based online cloud backup provider IDrive said on Friday that it has connected its cloud-based, backup software to Amazon Web Services. IDrive says it charges $1000 per year for the cloud backup service. READ MORE>>.

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SmartSound Extends Online Soundtrack Service

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Northridge-based SmartSound Software , which develops an online software as well as PC-based software for creating royalty free soundtracks, said earlier this week that it has extended its service to allow users to customize and create tracks indefinitely, once purchased from the company. READ MORE>>.

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Eucalpytus Tackles Enterprise Market

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Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , a developer of software for managing cloud computing infrastructure, said Wednesday that it has rolled out its first commercial offering, focused on enterprise customers. Tags: enterprise software computing cloud amazon eucalyptus. READ MORE>>.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Finally we get to: Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com His premise is that we should be beyond having to buy servers, software, or any other infrastructure. Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. We are also pushing out updates all the time to our customers. With our software, our clients just inherited the ability to use Ceph, and there was nothing they had to do to get that. There is an advantage and disadvantage to that.

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Interview with Dale Quayle, FileTrek

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To address that, Los Angeles-based FileTrek (www.filetrek.com) announced a funding round for its cloud-based software for sharing enterprise and business files yesterday. What our software does, is it allows that collaboration to take place, but also keeps track of that. We also have a web experience, and we host that on Amazon EC2.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. Many of the biggest customers wanted to be able to physically walk through our data center – how could I give up something so strategic? At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent.

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