Powers Unfiltered

I went to Microsoft’s Mountain View office last week, where I did an interview with William Leong, Microsoft ISV Evangelist.  We talked about Digipede’s market, products, and the need for grid computing in businesses of all sizes.  We even talked about IronPython, and how a last-minute addition to a recent version of our software has [...]

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Who says there’s no good news for financial companies?
Penny Crosman provided some good news for banks, hedge funds, and other money managers in her article today in Wall Street & Technology — good news for financial developers and IT professionals who need to access more processing power without complex application re-engineering. 
You can read the article [...]

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I’ve written here about Digipede’s financial services customers (about half of Digipede’s business is in that market), but today I’ll talk about an interesting project from the other half of our business. 
We did a press release today  about the recent sale we made to the US Navy.  You can read that here, so let’s go a [...]

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OK, this one came out while I was on vacation, so it’s a little old, but I can’t let it pass.
The new head of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst, says “The clouds will all run Linux.”
Really? What’s next? The head of Boeing telling us that all transportation will be via 787s? Or [...]

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The San Francisco Chronicle is not exactly the planet’s leading source of technology news and analysis.  So many of you probably haven’t yet seen Deborah Gage’s excellent article today about Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft’s ambassador to Silicon Valley.  Dan’l is among our most important contacts (and favorite people) at Microsoft, and despite his high-visibility role, many [...]

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I can’t believe I still haven’t had a chance to write about Velocity, Microsoft’s recently announced in-memory cache.  I think  this is just further proof that I have an endless backlog of topics about which I should be writing.
In any case, Derrick Harris of Grid Today has done a great job of connecting the dots [...]

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Derek Furguson of Bear Stearns (now JPMorgan Chase) has a good article in .NET Developer Journal about how to apply genetic algorithms and grid computing to the problem of market timing in stock trading. I was pleased to see that he chose to implement his algorithms using the Digipede Network.
His article is in [...]

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Derrick Harris of GridToday wanted to know more about the Digipede Network Version 2.0.
For those zero of you who don’t read GridToday until I point you there, his recent interview of me is here.
More later from High Performance on Wall Street.

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Dan Ciruli and I will be at HPC on Wall Street at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City next Monday (September 17).
We’ll be releasing Version 2.0 of the Digipede Network, and meeting with many analysts, press, customers, prospects, partners, and bartenders.  Since some of that could be pretty time consuming, we’ll also be in [...]

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I recently met with the folks at Windows in Financial Services — a good source of information about the progress Microsoft and its partners are making in the financial services market. 
They interviewed me about my thoughts on the current market for distributed computing in finance — I ended up talking a lot about the changing [...]

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