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DreamHost Readies Wider OpenStack Rollout

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OpenStack is the set of open-source software designed to allow any hosting firm to offer up similar services to Amazon EC2; the OpenStack project was originally based on technology developed by Rackspace and has since spread widely to other ISPs. DreamHost has been offering the service in beta since October of last year. READ MORE>>.

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RightScale Rolls Out Grid Computing Product

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Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the venture-backed developer of cloud computing management software backed by Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, said yesterday that it has launched a new product specifically focused on grid processing. Tags: rightscale grid computing cloud software saas. READ MORE>>.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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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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Choosing Internet Platforms

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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. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. I was dead set against it.

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

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Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). They’re mostly now thinking about serving demographically targeted ads to you, but that’s not very interesting.

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

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Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). reinvented, with more people online and trained. It was mostly timing.