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Snow Angels Come Early to Data : Snowflake's Strength Spells Success for Startups

Tom Tunguz

" As with many other companies reporting strength in the market, AI & unstructured data workloads are fueling growth. ” Unstructured data is the growth engine : 17x growth y/y suggests a small number last year, but phenomenal interest. Consumption of unstructured data was up 17x year-over-year.

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The 4 Questions Startups Should Ask Themselves about Building with Generative AI

Tom Tunguz

Layer : application, platform, or infrastructure? In the cloud, AWS, Azure, & GCP have created about as much market cap as all the top 100 B2B & B2C publics built on cloud (Netflix, ServiceNow, AirBnb, etc). Access to proprietary data provides a moat. But there are 100 applications compared to 3 infrastructure vendors.

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Signs We've Touched the Bottom

Tom Tunguz

Both Google & Microsoft announced growth rates in GCP & Azure that held steady from one quarter to the next. Microsoft is investing in data centers to support the needs of companies like Meta who have used Azure to train Llama2, a positive sign of increasing spend for the ecosystem. The desire for AI is broad.

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Cisco, Google reenergize multicloud/hybrid cloud joint development

IT World

Cisco and Google have expanded their joint cloud-development activities to help customers more easily build secure multicloud and hybrid applications everywhere from on-premises data centers to public clouds. Check out what hybrid cloud computing is and learn what you need to know about multi-cloud.

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Moving ChartMogul to AWS and Kubernetes

Chart Mogul

Being in the subscription analytics space means data-intensive operations, large volumes, and the ability to often scale accordingly. Our options were Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud (GCP), and Azure. Data security and compliance. Data security has always been top of mind. Limited hardware choices.

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IaaS PaaS SaaS: Mastering The 3 Different Cloud Service Models

How To Buy Saas

This may include infrastructural support like storage, security, network equipment, and data centers, as well as comprehensive applications built to perform specific tasks. Virtualization of computing resources Helps manage large physical data centers for physical servers. You can get them all through cloud computing.

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Best application vulnerability assessment tools for software companies (paid & free)

Audacix

API vulnerability scanner API security testing ensures business data packets that move between two software applications and ip addresses are secure. When you perform API vulnerability analysis using API scanning tools, you aim to secure data packets in transit using HTTPS. Remember the infamous Equifax data breach in 2017?