If you’re attending the Innotech conference at the Austin Convention Center on Thursday, here’s a brief guide to some of the great things happening during the day. 9:30am Room 11 Developing in the Cloud with Josh Baer. Learn about cloud computing infrastructure, platforms and applications that you can leverage to reduce costs, increase reliability and improve productivity. Find out how to scale your application horizontally and be less dependent on monolithic SQL databases. 11:00am Room [...]

Dachis Group announced a select group of alliance partners today, including Socialware. Both companies are based in Austin. You may have read that I recently joined the Dachis Group, and I promise that the blog won’t become a platform for our news. But I think it’s significant that with a handful of partners in the announcement, that an Austin startup (Socialware) is in the alliance along with other great companies such as IBM, SocialCast, CoTweet, [...]

Today the Dachis Group is announcing the launch of the Collaboratory, as well as my role as Director of the Collaboratory. Let me start by telling you a little bit about Dachis Group, and some of the unique and interesting features of the Collaboratory. You’ll understand quickly why this is one of the most exciting opportunities of my career. Dachis Group is a relatively new Austin-based company that is helping large enterprises get value from [...]