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. They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Maybe it is a publicly accessible staging server at EC2 spun up by a developer who has since left the company and not shut down because, hey, $20 a month. First startup I worked at was in 2000, I found a compromised system and recommended exactly the above. They have already patched most of their main apps, but they missed one.

Security 101

Security Software Review Ruby Startup 101

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

While traditional cloud testing vendors target the enterprise market, BlazeMeter plans to revolutionize the load testing market in the same way AWS/EC2 disrupted the virtualization market by introducing a self-service low cost cloud and Heroku pioneered the first Ruby cloud. Blazemeter real time reports and monitoring. Alon: a lot :).

Cloud 106

Cloud North America EC2 106