Powers Unfiltered

An entrepreneur’s journey into grid computing and partnering with Microsoft, by John Powers

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Digipede at SIFMA

June 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Next week, Nathan Trueblood and I will be at the Conference Formerly Known as SIA TMC — It’s the Securities Industry and Finanical Markets Association Technology Management Conference, or SIFMA TMC.  Last year I described this event as follows:
If you have not been to this event, it is unlike any other trade show I’ve ever [...]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Events · Grid applications

.NET Grid Projects, Mono, and CCS in Finance

June 30th, 2006 · No Comments

In his blog “Tales from a Trading Desk,” Matt Davey poses some interesting speculation:
Will any investment bank has the guts to deploy Mono on its servers to run .NET trading software? I’m not sure. If the bank has already deployed Microsoft .NET to all its workstations why wouldn’t it just use Microsoft .NET on the [...]

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Digipede at SIA — Big show, big partners, big news

June 23rd, 2006 · 2 Comments

Digipede’s trip to the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference went better than planned. With a presence in four locations (the Digipede booth, Microsoft booth, HP booth, and the Microsoft / HP “break room”), we were rocking pretty hard for three days straight.
If you have not been to this event, it is unlike [...]

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New York, New York

June 19th, 2006 · No Comments

I’m at the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference at the Hilton in midtown Manhattan this week.  I took the redeye on JetBlue last night to make it to a meeting that’s been canceled, I’ve been ineptly “helping” Dan and Nathan set up the Digipede booth (#4506), and have not slept in exactly 24 [...]

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Microsoft Financial Developers Conference

May 6th, 2006 · No Comments

OK, let’s start with something simple — my trip to New York City last week for the Microsoft Financial Developers Conference.  Microsoft gathered four hundred of the Best and Brightest from Wall Street, Redmond, and even Oakland, for two days of give and take at the Millenium Broadway Hotel.  I went with Digipede Product Manager [...]

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Tags: Events · Partnering with Microsoft · Presentations