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Storage Trends for 2018: Cloud Storage 2.0 Players Poised to Ascend

Xconomy

In March 2006, Amazon launched Simple Storage Service (S3). Although few people paid much attention at the time, the announcement of S3 marked the beginning of a great migration of data from on-premises storage to the cloud.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

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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Interview with Gil Elbaz, Factual

socalTECH

Gil is one of the founders of Applied Semantics, the firm acquired by Google for its AdSense technology. How does this differ from the kind of data Amazon has said it will make available through services like S3? They are making storage available to people or to institutions who have data they want to share publicly, for free, on S3.

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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

socalTECH

Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. We''re not using third party services such as Amazon S3, which just adds to your cost. Our new product competes with Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft SkyDrive. It''s cheaper than both Dropbox and Google Drive.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

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. Must be willing to work the way Google expects.

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

Both Sides of the Table

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. The Past (1985-2002).

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

Tech Zulu Event

Now all we need is YOU to: Join us! Custom ad deals and partnerships. The post REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live] appeared first on TechZulu.