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

Both Sides of the Table

One obvious example is the OSI model in which we have seven layers ranging from the physical layer at the bottom of the stack (e.g. 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. Let’s take some examples.

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Interview with Gil Elbaz, Factual

socalTECH

That data can be on any subject--we're a horizontal platform--and a few of the examples you see on our site are a list of restaurants, things in the health space, and other partnerships. How does this differ from the kind of data Amazon has said it will make available through services like S3? Is this similar?

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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

socalTECH

We''re not using third party services such as Amazon S3, which just adds to your cost. The only way to compete is by being innovative, and that private key encryption is one example of being innovative in this space. Number two, is our pricing. If you use a private key with Idrive Sync, no one can access that data--even us.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

SoCal CTO

The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The S3 system is not a transactional object system, it's for larger objects, larger updates. You need to push out anything truly persistent to another machine and/or storage, e.g., S3.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

The military-industrial complex of which I am a part is a great example of this. One example I found was H.R. Army, for example. Related to this, one of my personal initiatives at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) is called Social Software for Security, or S3. You can affect this process.