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Technical Signs Of A Well-Managed Business

YoungUpstarts

Modern businesses rely on technology to support their operations. Today, you can measure if a company is well-managed from how it implements and uses technology. 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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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. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. Management.

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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. Panel: Cary Davis , Managing Director, Warburg Pincus, Moderator: Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer, Google, runs in-house technology. We’re advising and relationship management, at the end of the day.

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

Both Sides of the Table

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). If you don’t manage what is said about you in social networks it could be detrimental. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. The Past (1985-2002).

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

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. You then can ask EC2 to start instances with your configuration on the fly. EC2 is a powerful service, but it is still evolving.

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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.

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. Senior VP of Operations/COO – ROBLOX - San Francisco, CA Tree forts. Wooden blocks. Erector Set.