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

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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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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. Pricing on the new product was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DreamHost Readies Wider OpenStack Rollout

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DreamHost was named one of the "hottest products" by industry publication at the show, and apparently is getting set for general availability of the service this summer. Pricing on the cloud-based service has not been announced yet, but the release will further bolster the cloud offerings from DreamHost. READ MORE>>.

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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

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parent company of IDrive (www.idrive.com), to learn about his company''s online backup and sync products--plus how he wants to challenge companies like Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft with a bigger and better cloud backup and sync service, and by building that here in Southern California. How long have you had your product available?

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. It’s a cool product and worth checking out. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Total raised: $5.3mm Read more: TechCrunch. __.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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When we talk about cloud computing we have to be careful to differentiate between open cloud (services the are provided solely to for the economic purpose of building a cloud business) and the “platform cloud&# where certain service providers offer cloud services wrapped around their core product. These are very different.

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

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Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.