Powers Unfiltered

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

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The Digipede Network, Version 2.0 — More better

July 27th, 2007 · No Comments

OK, I’m back from vacation in Oregon, and while I promised to bore everyone catching up on old news, I think that news will still be old later — Better to start with some new news. It’s time to leak some information about the Digipede Network Version 2.0, coming this summer to a grid near […]

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

Innovation!!

July 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Digipede is the 2007 ISV Innovation Partner of the Year! A huge thank you to all our customers, partners, and the increasingly large, vocal, and supportive Microsoft chapter of the Digipede Fan Club. I will have more details on this announcement, and on our experiences at this year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference some time soon, but I […]

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Tags: Events · Partnering with Microsoft · Uncategorized

At the Microsoft WPC in Denver

July 10th, 2007 · No Comments

I’m in Denver today for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, which starts tomorrow.  The big event this year, or course, will come on Wednesday, when we find out who will be the 2007 ISV Innovation Partner of the Year!  Did I mention that Digipede is a finalist?  Digipede is a finalist.  So are worthy contenders Fractal Edge […]

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Tags: Events · Partnering with Microsoft

Must read

July 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

OK, if you’re reading about distributed computing, you’re probably already reading Serial to Parallel to Distributed by Marc Jacobs, but if you’re not, it’s time to start.  Marc is a former Digipede client (at a big secretive asset manager) who has since moved on to the elite financial technology consulting firm Lab49.  Marc writes insightfully […]

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

Digipede on top

June 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Yes, that’s the Digipede flag on top of Mt. Rainier.  OK, NEAR the top.  Read on. Our friend Terry Clancy from Microsoft’s VSIP team took part in a fundraiser to help repair the damage from this winter’s floods in Washington.  We were one of the sponsors of Terry’s climb, and he was kind enough to […]

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Tags: Partnering with Microsoft

Microsoft vs. Microsoft — here we go again

June 24th, 2007 · No Comments

I will post another million positive things about the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WWPC) any day now.  Promise.  I love this event.  Honest.  But for now — arrrg.  Microsoft’s use of its own tools is driving me nuts.  Here we go again.  As many of you know, I’m a big fan of large conferences, under […]

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Tags: Events · Partnering with Microsoft · Usability

Digipede at SIFMA — Wrap-up

June 23rd, 2007 · 3 Comments

After a little extra travel drama (sitting the standard three hours on the runway at JFK), I’m back in Oakland.  SIFMA was interesting, productive, and exhausting, as usual.  Thanks to our friends at HP, our decision not to have our own booth at SIFMA worked out great.  We camped in the front corner of their […]

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

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 […]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Events · Grid applications

Thanks Greg!

June 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Greg Nawrocki has noticed our finalist status for Microsoft’s ISV/Software Solutions, Innovation Partner of the Year award.  Yes, the Microsoft grid market is heating up.  Microsoft has recognized that the Digipede Network can help drive sales of the new Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition, and I think that’s part of the reason we were named […]

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Tags: Grid applications

Innovation!

June 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Well, we must be doing something right; or at least Microsoft seems to think so. Microsoft has named Digipede as one of three finalists for “Innovation Partner of the Year” in the ISV/Software Solutions category.  As the only Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with a grid computing solution built on .NET, Digipede is a natural complement to a […]

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Tags: Events · Partnering with Microsoft