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

Both Sides of the Table

I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. They built in a feature called “auto scaling&# that monitored for traffic spikes and automatically provisioned new servers on demand and decommissioned them if your traffic surge subsided.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. We are also seeing the growth of social networks around topics of interest like StockTwits for people interested in investing in the stock market.

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

Tech Zulu Event

use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment. This enables on-demand scalability and delivery cost advantages that MCU-based providers like Citrix, Vidyo or Webex cannot achieve and won’t be able to pursue without massive architectural changes.