By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Officials with Rackspace and Intel Thursday officially cut the ribbon on the OpenStack Innovation Center at Rackspace’s headquarters. “We are going to make this the launching pad to make OpenStack and the entire cloud available to everyone in the industry,” said Imad Sousou, vice president of the […]
The Open Cloud Institute Launches at UTSA
February 26, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The University of Texas at San Antonio on Thursday announced the creation of the Open Cloud Institute with $9 million in backing. The Open Cloud Institute will focus on creating degree programs in cloud computing and big data. It will also work closely with companies in the cloud computing industry. The 80/20 Foundation has pledged […]
Making Data Centers Smarter and Greener
May 8, 2014 by 1 Comment
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Facebook has saved $1.3 billion in the last three years by making its data centers more energy efficient. That’s enough energy to power 40,000 houses a year and saves on carbon emissions the equivalent of taking 50,000 cars off the road, said Charlie Manese, vice president of […]
UTSA Hosts the Open BigCloud Symposium
May 7, 2014 by Leave a Comment
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Some of the biggest trends in technology today are the cloud, a fancy name for data centers, and big data, the massive bits and bytes of information flowing through those data centers. At the University of Texas at San Antonio, more than 100 people met Wednesday to […]
UTSA Holds Biannual Entrepreneur Boot Camp
October 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News To launch a business in college, students must master all kinds of skills. They might have to make a business plan, find funding, do market research, sell products or services, stay on top of legal issues and intellectual property rights and sometimes figure out manufacturing. This weekend, […]
Two San Antonio Researchers Get Seed Funding
July 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Two San Antonio researchers have received $200,000 in seed stage funding to study new methods to optimize drug release. Kelly Nash, assistant in the UTSA Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Dr. Benjamin Furman, a research engineering in Southwest Research Institute’s Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division will use the funding to study “Photoresponsive Polymeric Composites […]
