Technology news about Austin and San Antonio
TrueAbility’s CEO Luke Owen pitched the San Antonio-based company today at TechStars Cloud Demo Day. The company also announced that it has successfully completed its beta program with Rackspace Hosting. TrueAbility has created a cloud-based technical assessment platform that allows companies to assess the technical abilities of their job candidates. Rackspace has been using TrueAbility’s [...]
Rackspace wants to wipe out so called “patent trolls.” And as Alan Schoenbaum, chief counsel at San Antonio-based Rackspace, detailed in a blog post titled “Kill The Patent, Kill The Troll” last Friday, that’s a difficult task. “Despite our efforts, these patent troll lawsuits keep popping up like weeds. It’s like a never-ending game of [...]
Rackspace and Dell are among more than 70 big companies vying to win the best video in the Center for Corporate Citizenship’s annual Film Festival. The competition allows companies to showcase their video skills to communicate how they give back to the communities they serve. Voting kicked off today and runs through March 1. Only [...]
By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News Cloud computing company Rackspace Hosting Inc. has a new home in Austin. The company moved into an 87,000 square foot location next to I-35 in north Austin in October. The offices can accommodate more than 500 employees. The web hosting company currently has 400 people – adding [...]
By ANDREW MOORE Special Contributor to Silicon Hills News Rackspace Hosting held its 6th annual Thanksgiving food drive on Saturday at its headquarters in San Antonio. Cars lined up along both sides of the makeshift food distribution center in Rackspace’s parking lot as the K-Rack DJ created a party atmosphere of re-mixed music. In coordination [...]
Rackspace Hosting today announced new features and enhanced support offerings for the Rackspace Private Cloud Software, dubbed “Alamo.” Rackspace launched the software last August and thousands have downloaded the free software. “The goal of the Rackspace Private Cloud Software is to provide customers with a fast and easy way to deploy a free OpenStack-powered private [...]
It’s after midnight at Geekdom and nestled in conference rooms throughout the 11th floor, groups of entrepreneurs continue to hash out business plans, design websites and figure out problems vexing their startups. Cans of Red Bull are littered about along with empty water bottles, discarded coffee cups and Alamo Beer bottles. Bags of peanut M&Ms, [...]
In the old days, inventors tinkered in obscurity in their garages, spare bedrooms and basements. But now that cool collaboration and coworking spaces like Geekdom have arrived on the scene, there’s no need to tinker in private. And if you’ve got a hankering to make something out of nothing, but you’re not into crafting like [...]
To find out about high-tech startups in San Antonio, talk to Jason Seats. He’s not only the managing director of the TechStars Cloud program at Geekdom, a collaboration and coworking space downtown, but he’s been there done that and has plenty of T-shirts to prove it. In 2006, Seats, cofounded Slicehost with his college friend [...]
Who is this guy in this picture that doesn’t have a positive opinion of cloud computing? San Antonio-based Rackspace today released a survey of information technology decision makers showing that nine out of ten have a positive opinion of cloud computing and customer service and technical support were their top considerations when choosing a cloud [...]
