AustinStartup

On Thursday, October 29, Engine Yard will bring their Rails Performance in the Cloud Roadshow to Austin. Accompanying Engine Yard’s CTO and Co-founder Tom Mornini are company representatives from New Relic, CVSDude and CloudTest.

With more businesses using the cloud to store data, there has been an  increased focus on security. Josh Zachry, systems security lead, Rackspace, and Jeff Reich, director of cloud security research, the University of Texas at San Antonio, will speak at 3:30 p.m. on this topic at Innotech Austin on Oct. 29. [...]

Integrating search and social media is one of the biggest topics in  e-marketing channels these days. And, that’s one of the ones that  will be addressed at the Oct. 29 Austin Innotech e-Marketing summit.  Matt Scherer sat down with Ian Strain-Seymour, the director of  marketing at Apogee Search, about some of the things he’ll [...]

Over 200 developers from as far away as Houston and Dallas poured into Austin’s Monarch Event Center to attend Joel Spolsky’s Stack Overflow DevDays event. Prefinery’s Justin Britten has our review.

Today’s guest blogger is Liz Hocker, a Senior HR Consultant at Vhr – Human Resource Solutions from vcfo. Liz and her team of experienced HR professionals work with companies of all sizes to implement human resource strategies and solutions. She has over 13 years experience in Human Resource Management and Business Operations working [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Joel Trammell, the Chairman, co-founder, and CEO of NetQoS.
Give us the elevator pitch for you company?
NetQoS provides network performance management software and services that improve application delivery across the world’s most complex networks. More than 1,000 service providers, government agencies, and large enterprises – including half of the [...]

Stealthy Austin startup Socialware has raised $1.5M of a planned $1.7M round of financing, according to regulatory filings. Previously the company had raised $300,000 in June from G-51 Capital. With Silverton Partners Morgan Flager listed as one of the company’s board members, signs would point to Silverton as one of the sources of recent funding. [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Robert Miggins, Senior VP of  Business Development at Peer1, who is launching an exciting new program for tech startups named CloudXcelerator.
Before we talk about CloudXcelerator, tell us a little about Peer1 as a company?
PEER 1 believes in the limitless opportunity of the Internet, and the business growth potential it provides [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Todd Hansen, one of the founders of Better Than The Van.
Give us the elevator pitch for your company?
Better Than The Van connects bands with free places to stay across the US, Canada and Europe. By hosting bands you support live music in your community and directly connect with the artists. [...]

Today’s guest blogger is Corey Blahuta, the managing director for the Austin office of vcfo. The firm specializes in operational finance and accounting, HR Solutions and recruiting services for companies of all sizes. He can be reached at 512-345-9441.
I had an unusual experience the other day that I thought other entrepreneurs would find interesting [...]