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Six Simple Ways To Digitally Declutter Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

by Brad Harding, Technical Support Supervisor for North America for Crucial. Clear your cookies and cache. The cache is used by web browsers to accelerate page loading time, but this process saves itself in a file on your computer. Brad Harding is the Technical Support Supervisor for North America.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

We needed routers, switches, databases, caching software, load balancers, application servers, browsers, compression algortyhms, streaming technology, low-cost storage, management consoles, programming libraries and on and on. What Do We See From the Road Ahead? The infrastructure phase of the Internet is over.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

Writes stress a data store all the way to the disks, while read benchmarks may only exercise the in-memory cache. We use these for read intensive workloads to cache more data in memory. 0 Key cache size / save period in seconds: 200000.0/14400 Netflix America Latina. Both these instance types have a one Gbit/s network.

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Oversi Gets $4.9 million from Carmel, Cisco, Smac and StageOne Ventures

VC Cafe

The Oversi platform offers caching solutions that enable operators to deal with the huge traffic load on their servers while improving the user’s quality of experience (read: get rid of the annoying buffering while watching online TV). PRESS RELEASE.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. I just returned from 3 days in Cincinnati including attending the annual meeting of one of Upfront’s LPs – Cintrifuse.

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Yahoo hosted a fun Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

There were two of them - Hiliary Schneider, Executive VP of Americas, and Cheryl Ainoa, SVP Global Services Engineering. And all attendees received a “Code like a girl&# womens t-shirts. Unfortunately, the party central layout was not optimal for listening to speakers. To be honest, I couldn’t hear them too well.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

While SBIC’s were set up around the country, companies in Northern California including Bank of America, Firemans Fund and American Express (Reid Dennis of the Group ran theirs), began to set up SBIC funds to tap the emerging microwave and new semiconductor startups setting up shop south of San Francisco.