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 […]
Invictus Medical Sells a Device to Help Newborn Babies
August 10, 2015 by Leave a Comment
By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Invictus Medical is a homegrown San Antonio biomedical startup focused on improving the lives of newborns. In 2010, Daniel Mendez, Israel Cruz and Nicholas Flores, all engineering undergraduates at the University of Texas at San Antonio, invented a device, initially called the aqua bonnet, during an engineering […]
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 […]
Brewing New Tech Startups at UTSA
July 10, 2014 by Leave a Comment
A can ban on the Comal River in New Braunfels prompted a University of Texas at San Antonio engineering team to create a solution. They created the PalmKeg, a mini-keg sized insulated beer cooler to make transporting beer on the river easy. “It’s the perfect eco-friendly beer container,” said Amber Ernst, senior at UTSA majoring […]
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 […]
Microsoft Expands its Data Center Operations in San Antonio
April 18, 2014 by Leave a Comment
In 2008, Microsoft opened a $550 million, 470,000 square foot data center in the Westover Hills area of San Antonio. At the time, a Microsoft executive said that was just the beginning of Microsoft’s investment in San Antonio. She was right. This week, Microsoft announced a $1 million donation to the University of Texas at […]
First 3 Day Startup Program at UTSA
October 28, 2013 by 2 Comments
By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News The University of Texas at San Antonio held its inaugural 3 Day Startup event last weekend. Friday afternoon, 35 students began working to create startups with viable business models within a 52 hour deadline. At the final presentation Sunday evening, the students pitched six startups to a […]
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, […]
UTSA’s New Dean of Business Focuses on Entrepreneurship
September 30, 2013 by 1 Comment
By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News Last summer, Gerard Sanders became the new dean of the College of Business at the University of Texas in San Antonio. Sanders comes from the Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business and brings numerous credentials in management and finance, including a doctorate in management from the […]
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 […]
