Alex Williams

Alex Williams is an editor for SiliconAngle and lives a charmed life in Portland, Or.

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Google I/O Essentials for the CIO

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

It’s Google’s focus on products and services anyone can use that makes its enterprise story more accessible and easier to understand. Here are five examples of Google’s take on enterprise technologies we saw at Google I/O this year: Google Compute Engine is …

Amazon Web Services Faces Another Outage and the Critics Go Wild

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services (AWS) faced another outage today. This time caused by an electrical storm. And of course, the critics went wild. It;’s now pretty much a media event every time AWS has an outage. AWS keeps pretty quiet about the outages, …

The Launch List: The Partners Aligning with Google Compute Engine

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Here’s the initial list of partners aligning with Google for its news infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Opscode will offer its Chef tools with Google Compute Engine for infrastructure automation. This means server provisioning, configuration management and the delivery of infrastructure and …

Why Google Needs Its Own Unique Kind of Cloud

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

At Google I/O today it became readily apparent why a specialized infrastructure is as much about extending into the enterprise market as it is about Google needing a way to support its application ecosystem and its developer community. In many ways, Google’s …

Google Job Posting Gives Clues About New AWS-Style Cloud Service

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

We know little from Google about a new Amazon Web Services stye cloud that GigaOm says is likely to be unveiled at Google I/O. But a picture does emerge when you look through the job boards. Google is hiring several people that …

UK Royal Society: Open Data is the Key to the Second Scientific Revolution

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

The UK Royal Society is a fellowship of the world’s most brilliant scientists. Founded in 1660, its members have included Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. Distinguished thinkers Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking and Tim Berners-Lee are current members of the …

Dell’s Quest for Quest

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Dell is making a $2.32 billion bid for Quest. It tops a $2.2 billion offer from private equity firms Insight Venture Partners and Vector Capital. That puts Quest’s value at $27.50 per share. A counter bid is expected from Insight and Vector. …

Did Microsoft Just Blow Up the Channel?

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Microsoft blew up the channel this week. They changed their business model. With Microsoft Surface, they now compete with the channel. And that’s a good thing. But do the channel partners have any choice? No way. They have to sell Windows. What …

An Open API Debate: Pragmatism v. Federation

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

The open API debate burst into the GigaOM Structure conference this morning with a theme emerging that represents the paradox of today’s open systems. It’s now more about the pragmatists’ view of connected systems, versus the advocates for federation and distributed power …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

Google I/O Essentials for the CIO

Amazon Web Services Faces Another Outage and the Critics Go Wild

The Launch List: The Partners Aligning with Google Compute Engine

Why Google Needs Its Own Unique Kind of Cloud

Google Job Posting Gives Clues About New AWS-Style Cloud Service

UK Royal Society: Open Data is the Key to the Second Scientific Revolution

Dell’s Quest for Quest

Did Microsoft Just Blow Up the Channel?

An Open API Debate: Pragmatism v. Federation

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