InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

“By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later. Same everywhere.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I realized in working with so many startup technology firms is that even if you don’t give permission to third-party apps to access your information much of it is available anyways as long as somebody you’re connected to is more promiscuous with third-party apps.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

You've got an interesting team - combination of deep technology, enterprise software, computer gaming, special effects, Hollywood - how did the team come together? For us, we are currently deployed on the Amazon EC2 cloud, and that essentially allows us to horizontally scale in the way that we need to. That's a key change right there.

Cloud Computing 208

Cloud Computing Web Entertainment Media 208

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Pundits are mixed on whether FourSquare represents a major technology trend or a fad but undoubtedly it has captured the zeitgeist of the technology elite at this moment in time. No prizes for guessing … there’s ALWAYS a second act in technology. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The TenHands team realized that there were powerful macro technological and social trends emerging that could be leveraged to deliver simple affordable video collaboration for businesses in a way that has never been done before. use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment.

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. A couple of the more interesting ones: Amazon EC2 Google App Engine Salesforce.com Force IBM’s Blue Cloud All about end-user requests.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. We spent lots of time with enterprises where technology was not their core product. That is on premise, off premise, fully managed, and do-it-yourself. There is an advantage and disadvantage to that.

CIO 207

CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. While real estate and tourism continue to be strong economic drivers, there is also a thriving business climate developing life-changing technologies. But what Silicon Valley doesn’t know could hurt them.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57