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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class. “By RightScale came about way fast and before I felt ready.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

When we talk about cloud computing we have to be careful to differentiate between open cloud (services the are provided solely to for the economic purpose of building a cloud business) and the “platform cloud&# where certain service providers offer cloud services wrapped around their core product. These are very different.

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

Both Sides of the Table

emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. It was suddenly now not only about whom I was connected to, but who they knew and how I could get access to them. We all wanted intros.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. 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.

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

Both Sides of the Table

emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version. At it’s peak AOL had about 27 million US subscribers.

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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. It’s free so all can access – other business tools charge $30 per user/month and more, Skype charges $8 per user/month for group calling. How would it work for a casual consumer?