Powers Unfiltered

Now that the big announcements about Microsoft’s cloud computing platform are out at PDC, I can finally talk about stuff formerly under NDA. All I can say is — wow.  The Microsoft transition from cloud-absent to cloud-giant has begun.  There have been hints and leaks and guesses for quite some time now, but the announcements […]

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Powersunfiltered readers know that I’m a believer in the effectiveness of marketing events — but only with sufficient planning and preparation.  (For a refresher course in the Powers School of Events, start here.)  As reported here last week, Digipede had a station in the Partner Pavillion at the Windows Server 2008 launch in LA last Wednesday.  I watched Ballmer (good), […]

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Dan Ciruli, Nathan Trueblood and I will be at the Windows Server 2008 Launch in Los Angeles tomorrow. Wear our sticker at this event — you could win an XBox 360! Digipede has a station in the “Partner Pavillion” in the LA Convention Center, at which we will be demonstrating the only grid computing solution […]

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I am in Bellevue, Washington today and tomorrow for a meeting of Microsoft partners in financial services.  The meeting is in one of Microsoft’s many local offices.  (If any of my loyal Microsoft readers want to get together, please contact me and we’ll work something out.) The financial services IT market is going through some interesting […]

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Dan and I will be at another one-day conference in New York on Monday, February 11 — this one is Web Services / SOA on Wall Street, at the Roosevelt Hotel.  We’ll be in booth 211. I’ll be interested to see what the crowd is like.  While the broader IT world remains somewhat divided on […]

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I will be attending an event called “Advancements in Quantitative Finance,” sponsored by Microsoft and its partners, on Wednesday 12/12 in Midtown. Information on this free event, including how to register, is found here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032358329 The agenda looks good; the presentations appear to be primarily financial customers and academic experts, not Microsoft or other vendor […]

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Dan and I arrived in Scotland on Monday after a long but trouble-free journey (thanks, British Airways and BellaTerra Travel). After attempting to catch up on sleep Monday night (I can’t sleep on planes, day or night, no matter how long the trip…), we attended Day 1 of High Throughput Computing Week at the UK […]

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I have been invited to speak at a conference on High Throughput Computing at the UK National e-Science Center in Edinburgh next week.  This is extraordinary on a number of levels. First, the event is called “High Throughput Computing Week.”  If someone had told you five years ago that there was a “High Throughput Computing […]

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I am back home from SC ’07, my fifth Supercomputing conference. I saw some really impressive new technology from market leaders old and new. I heard remarkable claims and forecasts from analysts, pundits, and marketing flacks alike. I learned a lot, and contributed what I could. Yet at this conference, full of the so-called thought […]

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I am at the Supercomputing conference in Reno Nevada today and tomorrow. If you’re here and want to meet up, please call my cell — 510-326-1761. Much of the time I’ll be in the booth of our partner AMD (thanks guys!) showing off the latest version of the Digipede Network running on Windows Compute Cluster […]

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