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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.) Social media related skills are also big, i.e. It’s also to the point where the best folks (particularly on the architecture area) seem to all be going independent, working as CTO’s for hire or in similar positions. technologies (interactivity UI etc.).

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

Conversation Management. Sales Activity Management. Technology. Affordable Technology. Information & knowledge management. Workflow Management. Thanks to Alex Popsecu’s NoSql blog , found a well articulated thesis by Johan den Haan , CTO at Mendix. ▼ Technology (106).

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh. By managing the storage and analysis of sequence data, DNAnexus allows life science researchers to focus on what matters to them most: understanding the functioning and genetic basis of life, instead of worry about data center issues.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

In recent years, weve also got great new options all up and down the stack, in particular things like Amazon EC2 and RightScale (none of which would be possible without the free software movement). Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking. Less is more.

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Web Framework Performance - Startup Founders Need to See These Numbers

SoCal CTO

I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. I'm feeling okay about our choices of frameworks that are slower and will cost more in terms of hosting and managing growth. Several of these are B2B applications with relatively smaller audiences.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

My rough notes follow: Mike Dubno , CIO, Global Markets and Research Technology & Operations, Bank of America. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Panel: Cary Davis , Managing Director, Warburg Pincus, Moderator: Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer, Google, runs in-house technology. Introductory remarks.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

In a Software Defined Datacenter these elements are all provisioned, configured, and managed by a central software solution. In principle, commodity hardware can be used as the more advanced management and reliability is taken care of by the virtualization layer. When people talk about â??cloudâ?? speak, write).

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