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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

TechCrunch LA

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles.

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Google partners with Sony Pictures Imageworks to launch an open source VFX render manager

TechCrunch LA

Google, of course, is interested in bringing these workloads to its cloud and it has made a concerted effort to bring the Hollywood studios to its Cloud Platform. That includes the launch of its Los Angeles cloud region last year, as well as its acquisition of the Zync cloud renderer back in 2014.

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Google Aims At Hollywood With LA Cloud Services Move

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In a move designed to attract more customers from the media and entertainment industry, Google said this week that it will be opening up a new Los Angeles cloud region to its cloud computing platform, Google Cloud.

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Content World Turned Upside Down

SoCal Tech Calendar

Every aspect of the business of entertainment media and other content providers, and their traditional sources of revenue, are under assault by disruptive business models. Speakers: Richard Berger, Sr.

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You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind

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The era of cheap cloud computing plus open-source software plus digital natives unleashed upon society is creating some truly amazing products that will challenge the way we do business and the way we live our lives. It might be in online game platforms solving the problem of entertaining people.

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Content World Turned Upside Down

SoCal Tech Calendar

Every aspect of the business of entertainment media and other content providers, and their traditional sources of revenue, are under assault by disruptive business models. Speakers: Richard Berger, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment; Scott Brovsky, , Disney Interactive Studios; Eric Garland, CEO, Big Champagne; Richard Neff, Neff Law Firm.

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Google Cloud’s LA region goes online

TechCrunch LA

region and, while it was slow to expand its physical cloud footprint, the company now features 17 regions around the world. When it first announced this new region, Google positioned it as the ideal region for the entertainment industry. It was only three years ago that Google opened its second U.S.

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