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DreamHost Debuts Public Cloud Storage Service Into GA

socalTECH

DreamHost , the Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud services provider, said Tuesday that it has debuted its DreamObjects public cloud storage service into general availability, aiming the service at application storage, Web site backup, content storage, disaster recovery, as well as personal backups.

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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. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. So we only had to raise $500,000 to get going and again hardware ate just over 10% of the round. Think about it.

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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. TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Experience gadgets from the big brands with million dollar budgets to the startups bootstrapping and raising via IndieGoGo.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? in terms of time spent on the sites. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). It was mostly timing. The Present Era.