Since opening a “neu” office in Downtown Burlington this winter, NeuEon is embracing the community, happy to discover the booming tech industry and network of startups that VT has to offer.  Yes, there is technology in VT!  LaunchVT (@launchvt) is a brand new competition gaining attention throughout the North East.  With the kick-off of this 1st ever business pitch competition in March, the plethora of applicants were whittled down to a half-dozen entrepreneurs who will compete May 31st for a wealth of cash and prizes.  About $60,000 to be specific.  NeuEon is excited to join the impressive group of sponsors as a Gold Partner, and will award the winner with a bank of F-CTO services when they launch their company.  Interested in joining the LaunchVT hype?  Come, build your network and meet the NeuEon team on May 16th for the  final LaunchVT Seminar leading up to the competition.  Registration is open, and FREE.  We hope to meet you there!

Last week I had the chance to weigh in on some of the important issues facing the Cape Cod Region at the 2013 State of the Cape address/program. For the first time this event was televised live, here is the link to the video.

I was asked by the Cape Cod Times the other day to weigh in on the Yahoo work at home policy, here’s the article.

As a virtual company we have to operate with certain processes and technologies just to get our job done and promote virtual office best practices.   A few of the companies and products we use have joined forces to  promote the concept of “taking the paper out of paperwork”, we love that phrase! http://www.paperless2013.org/

It never ceases to amaze me how Microsoft can be seemingly way behind in the cloud game and then shoot ahead.   I just read the announcement of how Microsoft will start offering Active Directory as an “Identity Service“…. brilliant.  This has been a huge impediment to small businessess moving their infrastructure to the cloud and now they’ve solved it.   The service is in preview but stay tuned, it is only going to get more interesting.

from the Microsoft announcement:

“Windows Azure Active Directory
To help make identity management in the cloud accessible and available to every business and organization in the world, we now are offering two key features of Windows Azure Active Directory at no charge.

Please note that additional capabilities such as Windows Azure Active Directory Rights Management will be available as separately priced options. For more information, please refer to the Identity section of our Pricing Details webpage. ”

We would like wish our clients, partners and friends a happy and health holiday season.