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

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Missed Buzz at WPC

July 14th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Apparently, Buzz Bruggeman was at the Microsoft WPC in Boston, blogging away, and I missed him again.  I am in danger of becoming the last person on earth he has not met.  Anyway, he has good posts about the event, including one about the presentation by Andy Lees I attended. Not surprisingly, he liked the […]

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Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference — Steve Ballmer’s Keynote

July 12th, 2006 · No Comments

(Composed Tuesday, 7/11/2006 at Microsoft WWPC) I always enjoy Steve Ballmer’s presentations – he’s enthusiastic and loud, insightful and funny, and that works well with a big, supportive crowd.  He did well today, but I’ve seen him before, and I have to say he was not fully on his game today.  He hit on the […]

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Work it, or it’s not worth it

June 24th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Here are a few more observations based in part on Digipede’s experience at the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference in New York this week. I posted about this earlier today; this post is less fact, more perspective. For a small company like Digipede, a trade show can be a frightening investment. Travel is […]

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

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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Enterprise Ventures

June 1st, 2006 · 1 Comment

I spent the day yesterday at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose where Dow Jones is holding an event called “Enterprise Ventures,” a matchmaking event where many VCs get together to hear many startups give short pitches.  I gave two 20-minute presentations about Digipede this afternoon, which is never bad practice, and I ended up with quite […]

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Tags: Events · Partnering with Microsoft · Presentations · Startup Life

SVASE Breakfast

May 26th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I went yesterday to a breakfast organized by the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs, SVASE.  For those of you outside the Bay Area, you have no idea the number of “networking opportunities” there are for startups around here.  There are literally at least a dozen organizations that organize these events on a regular basis, […]

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New Webcast — Grid-Enabling Web Services

May 16th, 2006 · No Comments

Those who wonder where the mainstream grid computing applications are may want to attend Dan Ciruli’s next Webcast today at 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time.  Today he’ll talk about scaling out Web services using the Digipede Network, an area of interest for our customers (watch the Digipede Case Studies page for descriptions of current and […]

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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