Alex Williams

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

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Cake or Death – A Top 10 Guide to Managing An Army of Smartphones and Tablets

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The issues with mobile security device management is a many headed beast. It makes sense to bring your iPad to work but the IT dude kind of freaks out. One Friday afternoon I chatted with an IT guy, very senior, who faced …

Cloudscaling Aims to Build the Super Clouds

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Cloudscaling aims to build the super clouds. These are the giant clouds – the ones for such providers as AT&T. To build these new massive services, Cloudscaling is announcing today its own operating system that is based upon OpenStack and its own …

Netvibes Acquired by Dassault Systèmes

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Dassault Systèmes has acquired Netvibes, the online dashboard services company that began as a personalized news service before transitioning to becoming a tool for companies to view and manage its brand presence. Details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Netvivbes builds dashboard …

It’s Schema Free – Why NoSQL Continues to Gain Adoption

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

NoSQL continues to gain adoption, primarily due to the need for it in corporate daily operations and the freedom it provides compared to the rigid schemas associated with relational technologies. That’s the big picture from Coucbbase, which today announced the results of …

OpenStack Testing Gets Automated with Ubuntu

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The Canonical Platform Server team has developed a solution for testing OpenStack on Ubuntu. The JavaCruft blog goes into deep detail about the setup. The scope of the work: Per-commit testing of OpenStack trunk to evaluate the current state of the upstream …

Why Revolution Analytics, Basho, Opscode and Zenoss Have Former Accenture Executives as CEOs

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Last week, Revolution Analytics hired Dave Rich as its CEO. Dave has something in common with CEOs from Basho, Opscode and Zenoss. All come from Accenture where they worked as senior executives: Basho hired former Accenture CTO Don Rippert in In June …

VMware’s New “Cloud” Integrator: No More Wrangling Manuals….Really?

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

More often these days I hear about the added complexity that hosting providers face when considering adopting an infrastructure of the “cloud variety.” They all pretty much require a level of sophistication. Thus, it’s no surprise that service providers have done fairly …

Yes – Amazon Web Services Drops Prices…Again

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Last week, Amazon Web Services made the astounding announcement that it had stored 762 billlion objects in 2011. With scale like this, it’s apparent you need efficiencies. And with efficiencies, AWS is recognizing innovations. And those innovations are leading to a new round of …

Quick Post: Vendors Quibble About Forrester’s Hadoop Leader Board

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Yesterday I posted about the Forrester Wave reportby James Koblieus that ranked Amazon Web Services, IBM and EMC as the leaders in the nascent Hadoop market. Well, it looks like some vendors have a few critiques. In an Information Week story today, EMC raised some …

Gamesmanship: Fusion-io Sold Twice as Much Flash Last Year as EMC – An Interview with CEO Dave Flynn

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

This morning, I listened to an interview Wikibon Analyst Dave Vellente did with Pat Gelsinger, EMC’s COO. Gelsinger and the EMC team thumped on Fusion-io today, casting it as a one-off, to gain attention for VFCache which it launched today with a …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

Cake or Death – A Top 10 Guide to Managing An Army of Smartphones and Tablets

Cloudscaling Aims to Build the Super Clouds

Netvibes Acquired by Dassault Systèmes

It’s Schema Free – Why NoSQL Continues to Gain Adoption

OpenStack Testing Gets Automated with Ubuntu

Why Revolution Analytics, Basho, Opscode and Zenoss Have Former Accenture Executives as CEOs

VMware’s New “Cloud” Integrator: No More Wrangling Manuals….Really?

Yes – Amazon Web Services Drops Prices…Again

Quick Post: Vendors Quibble About Forrester’s Hadoop Leader Board

Gamesmanship: Fusion-io Sold Twice as Much Flash Last Year as EMC – An Interview with CEO Dave Flynn

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