Cinegif, an Austin-based startup specializing in animated graphic technology, has just received $500,000 in angel funding. The investors included the Baylor Angel Network and the Houston Angel Network and its Halo Fund. Cinegif plans to use the funding on sales and marketing for its cloud-based Graphics Interchange Format, known as GIF, marketing platform. The company […]
The Open Compute Project helps data centers save energy and increase efficiency
May 2, 2012 by 2 Comments
By L.A. Lorek Data centers gobble up energy. But some of the smartest minds in the information technology industry want to change that. They are meeting in San Antonio today and tomorrow to rethink the old ways of putting together servers, power and cooling units and the rest of the guts of data centers to […]
Codero Hosting to open an Austin office
March 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The cloud hosting wars are starting to heat up in central Texas. Kansas-based Codero Hosting, a cloud hosting service provider, announced that is has hired Emil Sayegh as its president and CEO and he’ll be based in Austin. “In the next six months, Codero plans to add additional staff to its current headquarters in Lenexa, […]
Calxeda’s chips save data centers energy and space
December 19, 2011 by 3 Comments
By SUSAN LAHEY Special contributor to Silicon Hills News As startup stories go, Calxeda’s is pretty dramatic: Mobile tech expert Barry Evans cooks up the idea of trading energy gobbling data server chips with small, efficient mobile phone chips that only need a tenth the power. They’re built to conserve energy when their hardware is […]
HP uses Calxeda’s technology to power its servers
November 1, 2011 by 2 Comments
Calxeda introduced its high-performance low power semiconductors Tuesday to power Hewlett Packard’s servers. The Austin-based start-up held an event in Palo Alto to introduce its new products along with its partner HP. But in its hometown, employees, customers, analysts and others gathered to watch a live stream broadcast of the event and to celebrate. They […]
The PC market is growing, says Michael Dell at Dell World
October 12, 2011 by Leave a Comment
