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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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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

.&# What this meant was that rather than buying really expensive UNIX servers (and multiple machines in order to handle redundancy) we could buy cheap, replaceable servers for compute resources. They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers.

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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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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Simulating production environments. For this exercise, we aimed to configure every framework according to the best practices for production deployments gleaned from documentation and popular community opinion. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. Since Vert.x

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Simulating production environments. For this exercise, we aimed to configure every framework according to the best practices for production deployments gleaned from documentation and popular community opinion. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. Since Vert.x

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Matthew Jenusaitis is the CEO of OCTANe , an Orange County startup accelerator whose mission is to connect people and ideas with capital and resources. More Products. Moral of the story is: don’t underestimate the beach bums. We came to play. Matthew has seen hundreds of startups pitch funding though OCTANe’s LaunchPad program.

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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. TenHands experiences the typical challenges of a start-up business to include the desire to change the world overnight with limited resources. Have you had any challenges?