If you are building a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) or infrastructure-as-a-service  (IaaS) company, there are some great resources for you courtesy of TechStars Cloud and Rackspace. I asked Jason Seats for a guest blog post on the subject. Jason is a founder of Slicehost (acquired by Rackspace) and also TechStars Cloud Manager. You have heard of TechStars in Boulder, New York, Seattle and Boston and now we have one here in our back yard. Two weeks ago [...]

You probably heard the news yesterday about CopperEgg in either the Statesman, InfoWorld, or ReadWriteWeb. Today we have a Q&A with company co-founder and CEO Scott Johnson. Give us the elevator pitch for CopperEgg. In a nutshell, what does the company do? CopperEgg gets deep inside your storage network, file servers and cloud instances to ensure everything runs smoothly. We deliver SaaS-based applications that provide true real-time analytics and performance monitoring into the health and [...]

Let’s talk about a perfect storm. Start with Richard Schwartz. He’s been advising ATI companies for a while, and was the CEO of SoloMio. It looks like he just resigned as the Chairman of Jinni (presumably to focus on his new company). He’s active in a tech incubator program in Israel, and a former Sr. VP of Technology at Vignette. A proven technology entrepreneur and executive. Add some really smart money from Tom Meredith and [...]

With more businesses using the cloud to store data, there has been an  increased focus on security. Josh Zachry, systems security lead, Rackspace, and Jeff Reich, director of cloud security research, the University of Texas at San Antonio, will speak at 3:30 p.m. on this topic at Innotech Austin on Oct. 29. Zachry and Reich sat down with Matt Scherer to give an overview on this topic. Question: What are the biggest challenges with cloud [...]