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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

“By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. When you began your teaching career, did you plan on eventually being an entrepreneur?

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Interview with Dale Quayle, FileTrek

socalTECH

We also have a web experience, and we host that on Amazon EC2. Is this a mobile application, web service, or how does it work? Dale Quayle: We provide a desktop client that sits on a PC or your Mac, whatever your user is working from. If you go to FileTrek.com, you can access your data via web or PC.

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Interview with Neville Spiteri, TheBlu

socalTECH

For us, we are currently deployed on the Amazon EC2 cloud, and that essentially allows us to horizontally scale in the way that we need to. That's a key change right there. Finally, what's the next thing for your company? Neville Spiteri: We're just getting started.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Acquisition. Venture capital. Developers. Infographics. Management. Electric cars. Hybrid cars. Renewable energy. Streaming media.

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

Both Sides of the Table

It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). This was Politburo-style innovation and was laughable. Enter Facebook.