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The next reincarnation of cloud computing

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Simeon Simeonov

Over Memorial Day weekend I wanted to play with CrunchBase data. I wrote a quick bash script that pulled data from CrunchBase and put it in MongoDB, one of the new databases from the NoSQL movement. In the process, I … Continue reading →

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Cloudy, With a Chance of Rain

Posted on June 24, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

Xconomy put together a cloud computing event at Akamai‘s HQ in Cambridge today. The location was appropriate since Akamai was one of the first companies to work on computing in the cloud or, more specifically, at the edge of the … Continue reading →

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Amazon Funds AWS Darling Animoto

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

My friend Stevie Clifton, CTO at Animoto, pinged me early this morning with the news that Amazon has funded his company. This comes on the heels of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos using Animoto as a great example of how to leverage … Continue reading →

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Cloud Computing: You May Need It If You Go Viral On Facebook

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

I organized a panel on cloud computing at the Nantucket Conference last weekend. One of the panelists was Stevie Clifton, founder/CTO of Animoto. He shared a story about Animoto’s experience with Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute Cloud and going viral on Facebook … Continue reading →

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Lessons on How to Use Amazon Web Services

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

From a comment on my post on the AWS outage comes a link to a great presentation on how to successfully use AWS from SmugMug founder Don MacAskill given at ETech last year.

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Amazon Web Services Outage: Causes And Remedies

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

If been a big fan of Amazon Web Services (AWS) because they lower the costs of startup experimentation. I’ve sponsored their events, judged their startup competition, etc. I have friends on the team. I’ve also had frank conversations with them … Continue reading →

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Ooyala wins

Posted on December 7, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

Ooyala won the Amazon Web Service Startup Challenge last night. The company has a video hosting platform integrated with an ad network and some interesting bells and whistles built around the notion of using computer vision to provide better ad … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services Startup Challenge

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

I’m heading to Seattle tomorrow for the AWS Startup Challenge finals. Many entered the competition with the hope of winning fame & glory, $50K in cash, $50K in AWS credit and an investment offer from Amazon (the details of which … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services Talk: Beyond Bootstrapping

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

The AWS event last Wed went very well. Thanks to everyone in the audience for coming and talking geek on such a gorgeous day in NYC. Worth noting: S3 is really getting some load–peaking at 27,000 requests/second. The VM marketplace … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services Event in New York

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

I’m polishing my presentation for the AWS event in NYC today. Polaris Venture Partners is the exclusive sponsor because we believe that what Amazon is doing is good for startups. AWS lowers the cost of experimentation online, which helps more ideas come to … Continue reading →

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