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Major Amazon S3 Outage Hits Internet

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An outage at Amazon Web Services is causing major downtime across the cloud this morning, as sites which rely on the cloud storage service have been unable to reliably connect all morning. Although Amazon's web services are widely used by Southern California tech startups, it's unclear how many are being affected by the downtime.

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

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I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. You can think of even your PC as a stack in which the hardware manufacturers handled physical layers, Microsoft handled the OS layer and application companies built higher up in the stack.

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Epics3 Takes On Photo Sharing

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Carlsbad-based Epics3 , a new startup focused on photo sharing through Twitter, Facebook, and other web sites, said today that it has launched its services. Epics3 also allows users to serve up photos using their own domain names, and can link photos stored in the service with Amazon S3. READ MORE>>.

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DreamHost Tackles Cloud Storage

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Los Angeles-based web hosting provider DreamHost is tapping into Ceph, the open source, scalable storage system project spun out of its own operations, to launch its own object storage service. The new cloud storage service is aimed at Amazon's S3 storage service and Rackspace Cloud Files. READ MORE>>.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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I will argue that when the dust settles, although we will have fewer firms, each type well end up more focused on traditional stage segments that cater to the core competencies of that firm. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5 Enter Amazon.

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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

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Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. So, if you''re a cloud storage provider, how do you get to the next level in terms of your service and company? Raghu Kulkami: We are an online backup storage and sync service. Raghu Kulkami: There are many services.