Alex Williams

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

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Citrix Gives Cloudstack to the Apache Software Foundation and Turns its Back on OpenStack

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Citrix is turning Cloudstack over to the Apache Software Foundation and aligning closely with Amazon Web Services in a move that will force the very green OpenStack movement to take another look at its governance model. The move by Citrix is a …

Why Google Matters in HP’s $800 Million Deal With Travel King Sabre Holdings

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Sabre Holdings has a considerable data trove. Its holdings span reservation systems for airlines to the online travel service Travelocity. Its databases are spun out across the network. There are databases for IBM mainframes, Oracle systems and those that serve its online services. …

Analyzing Larry Ellison

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Welcome, Larry. Take a seat. Great to see you again How are you? “Third quarter earnings, doctor.” “Aah. How did it go?” Okay, let me start. Two things, all these geniuses mention HANA and they mention the cloud. But I told them …

Boston API Jam’s Misogynistic Ad Copy Leads to Sponsor Exodus

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

The Boston API Jam, hosted by Sqoot, and its bizarre, misogynist ad copy has convinced at least three companies to drop its sponsorship for the hackathon. Sqoot has apologized and claims it was actually trying to poke fun at “the fact that hack-a-thons …

New IBM Analytics Package Comes With 9,000 Consultants Stirring the Cauldron

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

IBM has so many analytics potions that it sometimes seems like they pour from a faucet. But let’s face it. You can serve a lot of drink when you have 9,000 consultants stirring the cauldron. That’s just the consultants. IBM now employs …

EMC Reported To Be Buying Pivotal Labs – Extending Consulting Services

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

EMC is buying Pivotal Labs, extending its consulting services into the realm of agile development. It’s a smart move for EMC, which needs to better position itself with companies seeking to build agile development processes and leverage the ever growing demand for …

The Top 25 VMware-Focused Blogs

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

vSphere-Land recently did its annual poll to determine the best VMware blogs for 2011. In total, the results feature 180 blogs. There were about 80 new blogs on the ballot this year, which is testament to the rich blog community surrounding virtualization. About …

How the Daily Dot Uses Data Journalism to Understand Tumblr, Reddit and the Role of the Influencer

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Like the past few years at SXSW, the buzz over the past week came down to what apps are hot and what are not. But the deeper questions will go unanswered for quite some time. We do not know what the data …

HP: A New Services Doctrine That is as Much About People as it is About the Machines That Serve Us

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

HP announced its new Always On Support offering yesterday. It takes into account the new HP ProLiant Gen8 servers and the continued focus on converged infrastructures that HP is banking on in this age of fast changing enterprise environments. The news reflects …

How Ironic – Social Media Companies Have the Lowest Customer Service Rankings

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Zendesk runs help desks for 15,000 customers. The company recently crunched the data from these customers, analyzed it and as a result has set benchmarks for what companies should strive for in their customer service efforts. The results are reinforcing in what …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

Citrix Gives Cloudstack to the Apache Software Foundation and Turns its Back on OpenStack

Why Google Matters in HP’s $800 Million Deal With Travel King Sabre Holdings

Analyzing Larry Ellison

Boston API Jam’s Misogynistic Ad Copy Leads to Sponsor Exodus

New IBM Analytics Package Comes With 9,000 Consultants Stirring the Cauldron

EMC Reported To Be Buying Pivotal Labs – Extending Consulting Services

The Top 25 VMware-Focused Blogs

How the Daily Dot Uses Data Journalism to Understand Tumblr, Reddit and the Role of the Influencer

HP: A New Services Doctrine That is as Much About People as it is About the Machines That Serve Us

How Ironic – Social Media Companies Have the Lowest Customer Service Rankings

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