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Victoria Livshitz, Cloud Pioneer and Serial Entrepreneur (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the the-network-is-the-grid-computer-in-the-cloud dept.

Victoria is someone we'd all like to sit down with and learn from. She's worked as a software engineer for Ford, as an engineer for Sun, as founder and CEO of a company called Grid Dynamics, and as founder and CEO of her latest company, Qubell. Before that, she and her husband taught chess. Here's an article in which Victoria talks about "Envisioning a New Language" back in 2005 when she was still at Sun. Because of this and other early musings on what came to be called network computing, grid computing, and later cloud computing, Victoria has been called "the mother of the cloud." Maybe, maybe not. In any case, she knows a great deal about cloud developments. For this conversation she brought along Qubell's CTO, Stan Klimoff, who also knows his stuff.

This interview doesn't cover all we learned from Victoria and Stan, just all we could fit into our new "keep videos under 10 minutes" mandate, which we don't mind because, in return, there's a new button that lets you skip preroll ads longer than 30 seconds after only five seconds. Yay! We'll post another conversation with Victoria next week or the week after. We're looking forward to it and hope you are, too.

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  1. Re:Interesting observation by Stan by gl4ss · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I fail to see how "original content"/hangout_videos about buffing up some biz I've never heard about is returning to the roots. they're always very generic videos which work mainly to prop up the interviewed person and I don't think there has been a single video about how to do x or here's the basics about tech subject xyz. I don't want the setup for the video to be "this person is so fucking great and has been at x y z and is now at g/f/p". the setup should be at most be summary of what's in the video and that summary better be interesting. in other words, the subject and content should be the vehicle for propping up the content not empty praise words about a person I've never heard about before(and therefore for me are about as meaningful as the zombie professor introductions on zombie mockumentaries).

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  2. We Need More Of This! by R3d+M3rcury · · Score: 2

    [...] founder and CEO of her latest company, Qubell.

    Because what we need is more Qubell.

  3. Slashdot by PaddyM · · Score: 2

    Slashdot has been called the "mother(*&^%$ of editing". For good reason. Her last name is Livschitz.

  4. Gots to agree w/gl4ss . . . by sgt_doom · · Score: 2

    . . . I mean, I read a bunch of books per month by people who say they are great, and their bios say they are great, and they usually have blurbs by others saying they are great, and when I'm done with the book I realize it is almost pure bullcrap! And that is what they pay these people for?

  5. To set the record straight by VictoriaL · · Score: 2

    I have been called many things, but "the mother of the cloud" is the first. Robin has a wild imagination. - Victoria

  6. Some Translation by nukenerd · · Score: 2
    From the interview :-

    .... mining of data, the formation of new business intelligence that can now sit on data sources the size of Google, and how to make sense of them. ..... shed light on peoples’ buying trends and preferences to boost sales—every small business owner’s dream. ........ Owning and managing the cloud will be relegated to a small number of service companies that can add value to products.

    Translation :- stuffing adverts down the users' throats.

    Second thoughts, it didn't really translating, it's plain enough already.