Tag: sxsw
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SXSW: Talking with AllDigital
Im currently downtown at SXSW after having had lunch with a customer, AllDigital. AllDigital delivers digital content from the cloud to multiple endpoints for corporations and entertainment properties. They are here at SXSW to support some of their customers and prospect for new ones. Before Tim Napoleon, AllDigital’s Chief of strategy, took off for…
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24 Hours of Pizza-fueled Innovation
Postponed: Over the weekend, due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to postpone our first hackathon. Stay tuned for more details. Im very psyched to announce Dell’s first Hackathon which will be happening next week right here in Austin. The Dell Center for Entrepreneurs and Dell Software Information Management Solutions are teaming up…
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SXSW: Our final Dev/Tech meet up
As I mentioned in my last several entries, during SXSW Michael Cote and I, on behalf of Dell, organized a series of mini meet-ups focusing on developers, tech and social media folks. These were relaxed informal affairs with the idea of getting people together to learn what they were up to and for us to…
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SXSW: Our Saturday night Dev/tech meet up
During SXSW Michael Cote and I, on behalf of Dell, organized a series of mini meet-ups focusing on developers, tech and social media folks. The second event we held was on Saturday on the top level of Speakeasy. Being Saturday night, this turned out to be the biggest of the three get togethers. Here is…
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SXSW: Our first developer Chill and Chat
This is the 26th year of the SXSW (South by Southwest), the annual music, film, and interactive conference. Everybody whose anybody, and even a few who aren’t, are here. Yesterday the 10-day event kicked off. As a company, Dell is a big participant and sponsor from panels, to music lounges, to an entrepreneur’s UnConference, to…
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Rackspace evolves OpenStack Governance
One of the trickiest things to get right in an open source project is the governance model. Who makes up the various boards and gets what authority is something struggled over and something that virtually no one gets right straight out of the gate. Its particularly interesting if you are a commercial entity sponsoring a…
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OpenStack Installer Demo at SXSW
Last week and this, Austin’s downtown has been taken over by the South by Southwest festival (SXSW). What started out nearly 25 years ago as a music festival/conference has grown to include parallel film and interactive events as well. During the event every bar and venue downtown is occupied with bands, films or tech companies…
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Animoto – The Poster Child for AWS & EC2
At SXSW interactive I came across the booth for the cloud-based app Animoto. I was intrigued since I have seen a couple of Amazon Web Services presentations and both held up Animoto as a great example of an application that would have been impossible to deliver any other way. Animoto, which creates videos for consumers…