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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software.

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Eucalpytus Tackles Enterprise Market

socalTECH

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. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site.

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Interview with Dale Quayle, FileTrek

socalTECH

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’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. Public stock market trades by senior executives of corporations. How on Earth could I rely on Amazon to guarantee me performance so that I didn’t risk slow response times for my customers?

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

Both Sides of the Table

It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. We will seeing the growth of social networks around topics of interest like StockTwits for people interested in investing in the stock market. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

Tech Zulu Event

Co-founder and lead software developer Anil Kumar was a led software engineer for WebEx. Our client software is a true browser plug-in (no Flash) that’s based on Google’s WebRTC open source project. use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment.