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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. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

socalTECH

Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. We spent lots of time with enterprises where technology was not their core product. CIOs are wondering if they should jump in, wait for production, or wait for things to mature. There is an advantage and disadvantage to that.

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

Both Sides of the Table

In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations. The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products. If you look at the power of Bit.ly

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

Tech Zulu Event

TenHands’ vision is to enable every person and organization to collaborate more effectively and get more done together anywhere without boundaries. use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment. When was it launched?

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

Both Sides of the Table

In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations. The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products. Now I don’t get any.