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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. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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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. We have improvement tools, and you can either use our technology or leverage the community to improve the data and clean that data. What's the story on how you ended up starting Factual from Google? Is this similar?

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

Tech Zulu Event

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. On October 24th tech enthusiast will come together to discuss the latest in Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming. Now all we need is YOU to: Join us!

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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. There''s a lot of technology behind the scene, including compression of data transfers, only sending modified blocks, and the threading aspects of our backups. It''s cheaper than both Dropbox and Google Drive.

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

Both Sides of the Table

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Google App Engine - take more than two seconds to process we are going to kill your request. Must be willing to work the way Google expects. Compared cost there vs. second company that raised $500K and used S3 and other platforms.

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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. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly.