March 9th, 2010
posted by Raj Dutt
I love to travel and I’m rather opinionated about which cities I like to spend time in. Needless to say, like many people who live here, I think Voxel’s homebase of New York is the greatest city in the world.
About 3 months ago, Sam (our VP of Sales) and I flew down to Austin to visit our friends at Dell in Round Rock, Texas. It was great to meet a lot of the people we’d been dealing with over the years, and we got quite the welcome at 1 Dell Way. During our visit, I remember being surprised at how cool a city Austin is, and I told a few people that I’d love to spend more time there.
Well we’re excited to again be doing just that: Matt, Sam and myself are headed down this week to South by Southwest (SXSW). There are lots of people doing amazing things on the Internet, who are converging in the city known as “a spot of blue in a sea of red”. As a company on the cutting edge of Internet Infrastructure, we figured it’d be interesting to stop by.
Every year it seems like a larger percentage of our client base is in attendance, and this year we’re looking forward to meeting up with them (shout outs to Urban Dictionary, Daily Kos, Pressflex, imgur, UKDM, and dozens more that I’m forgetting).
So if you’re an existing customer who’s going to be in Austin, or if you’d simply like to meet us, give us a shout (and follow us!) twitter.com/voxeldotnet. We’d love to meet up, and drinks are on us this weekend.
See you in Austin!
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October 9th, 2009
posted by Raj Dutt
Web Hosting Industry Review (“the Whir”) has picked up on our latest announcement on our hybrid-cloud infrastructure service: VoxSTRUCTURE. Over here at Voxel, we’re super excited about melding the benefits of cloud computing into our total infrastructure product line. Please have a look at our product page for a quick overview (http://voxel.net/products-services/) and read through the WHIR full article here. We’ll be posting more as we get feedback from our clients and partners on how VoxSTRUCTURE is being used to deploy hybrid infrastructure.
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September 14th, 2009
posted by Raj Dutt
A couple of weeks ago, the fine folks at Amazon made an interesting beta product announcement that’s getting a fair bit of buzz: The Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). As usual, Amazons CTO Wernes Vogel wrote a rather informative post describing the new product on his blog. There’s also some good details on their product page.
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July 7th, 2009
posted by Raj Dutt
Almost a year ago, I blogged about virtualizing the voxel datacenter. In the post, I was a bit contemptuous on the hype surrounding “cloud computing”, but nonetheless alluded to how Voxel was going to get on the cloud bandwagon with our own service: “SilverLining”.
Other than the cloudophony getting louder with each passing month, what’s happened since then? Last quarter, Voxel launched the SilverLining Technology Preview (SLTP). We’ve had current clients and other interested alpha-testers kick the tires of our cloud service and instantiate thousands of virtualized servers via API’s and our desktop Adobe AIR control panel. Most importantly, we’re continuing to get substantive feedback and real-world suggestions that are helping shape and polish the product prior to its public beta launch.
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February 23rd, 2009
posted by Raj Dutt
We’re ready to start taking the covers off a secret project that’s been in the works over here for quite a while: Voxel’s SilverLining.
Over the next few months, we’ll be working with a handful of customers, helping them to build their own castles in the sky. By castles we of course mean virtualized servers, and by sky we obviously mean the cloud of Voxel datacenters worldwide.
So, what is SilverLining? We could answer that question in a couple of ways.
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August 27th, 2008
posted by Raj Dutt
Lot’s of chatter about virtualization, and cloud (oh how I loath that overexposed word) computing. It’s definitely interesting to watch this stuff happen around us..
Voxel, like a lot of our peers and competition, has constantly pushed the edge of “On Demand IT”. The entire Managed Hosting industry has been focused making IT more of a utility, supposedly.
It is ‘what we do’, as they say.
Only it took a company that sells books online to drive it home, and accelerate what we were supposed to be doing all along.
Talk about industry myopia.
Or is it really that simple?
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August 15th, 2008
posted by Raj Dutt
We booked some tickets today, to Singapore. Since the entire country and government is purpose built for business, it has earned the nickname “Singapore Inc”.
We’ll be setting up a regional headquarters there over the next several weeks.
At the end of the month, Mike V (our VP of Development) and Dr. Beevers (Development Lead on VoxCAST), as well as yours truly will be headed out there. We’ll join Anthony W (Singapore employee number zero), who has been doing a great job getting up to speed on all things Voxel the last couple weeks.
While we’re not looking forward to the 24 hour flight (especially since we’re not flying Singapore Airlines), we are very much excited about getting Voxel Singapore off the ground.
Singapore Skyline
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August 11th, 2008
posted by Raj Dutt
Now, we’re not one to promote a competitor without reason, but props are in order to Rackspace.
It’s been 7 years since they pulled the plug on their first attempt at going public. In that time, they’ve gone from doing $7 million a year to $350 million a year. They have built a solid business by having a good product and world class support.
Last week, they went public, for real this time.
Today, they are a billion dollar company.
That’s nothing to sneeze at.
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August 5th, 2008
posted by Raj Dutt
Green computing is hot Voxel has been slow to get on the bandwagon. The rest of the competition has clamored on.
What used to be about sensible business practices (saving money on power by being more efficient, reducing the amount of boxes that need to be unpacked and disposed) is now relabeled ‘green’ for maximum fun, spin potential, hype, and profit.
It’s high time we got on board and hyped it up like the best of them. Given a virtually unlimited budget, our best and brightest systems engineers have been hard at work, pushing the envelope of green computing. The results have been impressive.
Chris, one of our Senior Engineers, led the global team that has created the ultimate, most cost effective solution for both our customers and ourselves. It has both the build quality customers demand and the impact on waste that is required to ensure the planet’s survival. Ladies and Gentlemen, Voxel is proud to present the Corrugated Computing Chassis.
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