Remove EC2 Remove Sales Remove Web
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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it.

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Interview with Dale Quayle, FileTrek

socalTECH

Is this a mobile application, web service, or how does it work? We also have a web experience, and we host that on Amazon EC2. If you go to FileTrek.com, you can access your data via web or PC. Our sales and marketing will be in Los Angeles. Dale Quayle: I think you're right about that.

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

Both Sides of the Table

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. No wonder people had to raise $5 million just to get started back then. We raised $16.5

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