Powers Unfiltered

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

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Microsoft Financial Developers Conference wrapup

April 30th, 2007 · No Comments

I just returned from New York where Dan and I worked the 5th Annual Microsoft Financial Developers Conference at the Grand Hyatt hotel. Dan and I did a tag-team presentation entitled “Scaling SOA with Grid Computing for .NET,” which was well received. Frankly, I felt like I stumbled through the first part, but eventually warmed [...]

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Tags: Entrepreneurship · Events · Grid applications · Partnering with Microsoft · Usability

Digipede to sponsor Microsoft Financial Developers Conference in NYC 4/25-26

April 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Yes, I’m going back to New York again next week.  Digipede Director of Products Dan Ciruli and I will give a presentation and demonstration entitled “Scaling SOA with Grid Computing for .NET.”  SOA here is Service Oriented Architecture, an area of increased activity for us.  Here’s the abstract we wrote for our session:
Presenters:  John Powers [...]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Events · Grid applications · Partnering with Microsoft · Presentations

Clubbing with Steve

January 19th, 2007 · No Comments

I went to New York again this week to see customers, prospects, partners, and so on.  But it pays to keep your plans flexible — because while I was there, a friend got me an invitation to a reception at Club 21 on Tuesday evening with a bunch of financial services executives and Steve Ballmer.  Earlier in [...]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Events · Partnering with Microsoft · Presentations