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Are there too many startups?

Posted on04. Feb, 2012 by Ed Byrne.

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Influent individuals such as Sean Parker have recently been saying that there are too many startups, and too much startup capital available, from too many angels and VCs. To be fair, there is a glut of wannabe angel investors at present, but there’s nothing terribly wrong with that – coming from an Irish perspective where [...]

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Introduction on Reducing your AWS & IaaS Costs

Posted on01. Feb, 2012 by Ed Byrne.

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This was originally posted on CloudVertical, where I am helping create a business intelligence tool for Cloud Computing) Cloud Computing is a fantastic way to get access to world-class, extremely resilient and scalable infrastructure – for a pay-as-you-go price – with no minimum entry cost. However once you get past the initial win of getting access to [...]

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How Rackspace NAILED strategy by enabling the competition

Posted on19. Aug, 2011 by Ed Byrne.

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I’ve long been an admirer of Rackspace – the quality of service delivery, focus on the customer, and seemingly great organisation culture; even when I was in competition, Rackspace was a company you WANTED to be compared to – they were the gold standard for managed hosting. Then AWS (Amazon’s Web Services division) came along, [...]

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GovCloud Ireland Proposal

Posted on18. Aug, 2011 by Ed Byrne.

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Amazon Web Services announced that they have built a version of their Cloud Computing platform specifically for the US government. This makes a lot of sense – government agencies are both hugely security conscious about their data (rightly so) and also heavily controlled in terms of how they engage with outsourcing providers. The Irish government [...]

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An Open Letter to Ireland Inc. on the Cloud Computing opportunity

Posted on11. Apr, 2010 by Ed Byrne.

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Ireland Inc. (Enterprise Ireland, IDA, Irish Software Association, IBEC, Irish Computer Society, Irish Internet Association) are not doing enough for the country to take advantage of this enormous opportunity and position Ireland as THE location for Cloud Services

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