socalTECH

JULY 22, 2009

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing management software firm RightScale is linking its products into IBM DB2, one of the major enterprise database software packages, the firm said today. RightScale said it will support creating, managing, and automating IBM DB2 Express-C on such services as Amazon EC2. READ MORE>>.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Cloud Computing EC2 100

socalTECH

JULY 14, 2010

Morphlabs is developing a cloud-based computing appliance which is used to manage and deploy elastic computing clouds. Damarillo is best known for founding Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005, and has since been starting up firms whose basis is open source software.

El Segundo 124

El Segundo EC2 Cloud Computing Venture Capital 124

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. The biggest change in the software industry beyond open-source was “open cloud.&#. Amazon will surely keep moving up the stack.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. I guess the “stack ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap&# mentality convinced this retailer that they could do the same with cloud services. Work it did. Processing.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343