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>>.

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S3 Southern California Web Sites 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.

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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

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Will it survive as long as you need?

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