Alex Williams

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

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PubNub – A Cloud Service for Node.js

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The real-time mega trend is taking new dimensions with the advent of billions of devices, game clients, digital televisions and really, a kaleidoscope of connected things. A service may drop if the load becomes too enormous. It’s why we see the advent …

Flowdock: The Node.js Angle – Group Messaging and Activity Streams – Soon with Twitter

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

We’re live with theCube here at NodeSummit where I caught up with Flowdock’s Founder and CEO Otto Hillska. Flowdock is a communications tools for developers that combines group messaging with data from third party services such as Github, bug tracers, Jira and …

The Race to the Middle: Accenture Technology Report 2012

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Accenture released its Technology Vision Report for 2012 with the call for a new base for IT that shows how the race to the middle continues to evolve. Not surprisingly, Accenture plays the middle throughout the report. I am not convinced their …

IBM and the Maturing Activity Stream

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

It’s without question that the activity stream represents the modern application. It is a staple of social technology. Twitter, Facebook and new services like Path use the activity stream to engage and build communities. In the social business world, established players like …

IBM Global Services Revenues Point to Tech Sector’s Modest Growth and Huge Demand for Big Data Analytics

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

These are not gold rush days in the tech sector. We can’t expect huge gains from the established tech giants. Modest growth is just fine in this slow market. And that’s just what we got from IBM yesterday. It had modest growth in …

Is Bitly Making a Pivot to the Enterprise?

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Bitly, which earned its fame as a URL-shortener for Twitter, is making a big play for the enterprise. It’s another signal that the enterprise will continue to attract startups that start as consumer oriented companies but find better opportunities with the business …

Google Apps Winning Federal Government Projects with Big Help From Unisys

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Google Apps continues to win major contracts in the U.S. Federal Government with the help of Unisys, which continues to focus on integrating Google Apps for Government into a number of federal agencies. Unisys announced today that 25,000 users from the National …

Survey: For Big Data, the Large Enterprise is Turning to Linux [Infographic]

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

A survey by the Linux Foundation and the Yeaman Technology Group finds that enterprise customers are using Linux about twice as much than Windows for their big data efforts. The survey explored Linux adoption in enterprises with more than $500 million on …

Giving Every Day Users A Way to Transform IBM Lotus Data into New Apps

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

You never know what you might find when in search of a good coffee. RedMonk’s James Governor was none too pleased with the selection on the Walt Disney World “Boardwalk,” here at Lotusphere. With Gary Barnett of the Bathwick Group there was …

The Storage Wars: Gluster Becomes a Core Pillar for Red Hat Storage With New Integrations for AWS and OpenShift

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Red Hat has JBOSS, Fedora, OpenShift and now Gluster. The distributed storage technology is now Red Hat’s new pillar for offering storage as a stand alone software or virtual appliance and as part of Red Hat’s core products. Later this month, Red …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

PubNub – A Cloud Service for Node.js

Flowdock: The Node.js Angle – Group Messaging and Activity Streams – Soon with Twitter

The Race to the Middle: Accenture Technology Report 2012

IBM and the Maturing Activity Stream

IBM Global Services Revenues Point to Tech Sector’s Modest Growth and Huge Demand for Big Data Analytics

Is Bitly Making a Pivot to the Enterprise?

Google Apps Winning Federal Government Projects with Big Help From Unisys

Survey: For Big Data, the Large Enterprise is Turning to Linux [Infographic]

Giving Every Day Users A Way to Transform IBM Lotus Data into New Apps

The Storage Wars: Gluster Becomes a Core Pillar for Red Hat Storage With New Integrations for AWS and OpenShift

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