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Technical Signs Of A Well-Managed Business

YoungUpstarts

Modern businesses rely on technology to support their operations. There are several technical signs of a well-run business and we are going to review them in this article. After all, it is much easier to restore business operations to their ideal state when you have complete backups of business files. Security as a Process.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Mostly, I sell software. ” What does “execute arbitrary code” mean? Literally, it means that the attacker can choose to have your server execute any code they can dream up.

Security 101
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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

We picked a write oriented benchmark using the standard Cassandra "stress" tool that is part of the product, and Denis ran and analyzed the tests on Amazon EC2 instances. There was no setup time, no discussions with IT operations about datacenter space and no more cost once the test was over. million client writes per second.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

Most people there knew the difference between Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and therefore knew exactly what a PaaS company did, right? Contents: Layer 1: the software-defined datacenter. Layer 3: deploying code. Software Defined Datacenterâ??

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

It is okay to go with a cheaper provider when you are just developing the code, but your production needs to run on a rock solid system. EC2 - The Elastic Compute Cloud Service EC2 is essentially a grid in the box. You define what operating system you need, what web server you want to run, what database to use, etc.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). People feared they were going to have a monopoly over the Internet due to “bunding&# Internet Explorer with their operating system.