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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? That’s what we’ve started to tackle and the mission RightScale is on. 9) The story of how you started RightScale is classic. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Will it survive as long as you need?

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

socalTECH

However, Metacloud (www.metacloud.com), a startup providing private cloud services, is looking to change the equation and make it much easier for companies to deploy their own private clouds. We think those four dimensions matter because you can sort of mix and match those, and end up with interesting business models.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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Interview with Dale Quayle, FileTrek

socalTECH

We also have a web experience, and we host that on Amazon EC2. It looks like there is some story behind how you ended up at FileTrek and the company ended up in Los Angeles--the firm was in Canada? We're also asking all of customers to think outside the box--syncing and sharing data is the easy part.

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

Tech Zulu Event

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. What inspired you to come up with the idea? use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere.