socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Although Amazon's web services are widely used by Southern California tech startups, it's unclear how many are being affected by the downtime. S3 is used by many websites for storing data, images, and video. READ MORE>>.

S3 100

S3 Southern California Web Sites 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

petabytes, and also links into cloud storage services like Amazon S3. Financial details of the link were not anonunced. Wesetern Digital's HGST archive systems uses object storage, which scales from 672TB to 4.7 READ MORE>>.

S3 100

S3 Software Services Marketing 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Xdrive itself was actually a Southern California startup, and was acquired by AOL in 2005. ElephantDrive is venture backed by Intel, and uses Amazon's S3 storage service as its back end data store. America Online announced in October that it was shuttering Xdrive, and will close the service on January 12th. READ MORE>>

S3 100

S3 Southern California Los Angeles Services 100

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2013

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. IDrive/Pro SoftNet is based in Calabasas.

Southern California 133

Southern California Google S3 Services 133

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Compared cost there vs. second company that raised $500K and used S3 and other platforms. In second venture - compared Salesforce.com vs. S3 - as platform. At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 23, 2007

The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The S3 system is not a transactional object system, it's for larger objects, larger updates. You need to push out anything truly persistent to another machine and/or storage, e.g., S3.

Web 150

Web S3 EC2 Services 150