Alex Williams

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

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The Cloud is Not Cool Anymore and That’s a Good Thing for the CIO

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

The cloud is not cool anymore. It no longer has the aura of something cosmic. It’s mainstream. That’s evident in a few ways: Citing the 2012 Future of Cloud Survey, sponsored by North Bridge Venture Partners, Barb Darrow points out that users accept that …

Bromium Raises $26 Million and Emerges from Stealth with a “Microvisor” That Takes the Human Factor into Consideration

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Bromium’s Simon Crosby has done a masterful job in the past year of marketing a startup without revealing what it is. For months, the buzz grew to such an extent that Bromium even won an award for “Startup of the Year.” Today, …

The Spring of Convergence

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

What a spring season. We saw more news about converged infrastructure than any time before. That makes it an appropriate time to do a recap of the market. For reference, I am turning to Wikibon’s Stuart Miniman, who wrote a post last …

Dell’s New Linux Laptop Built For Developers Will Query Github Repositories for Profiles

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Dell’s new Linux laptop built for developers will query github repositories for profiles that are shared and extended among people using the open-source laptops. In a blog post update about “Project Sputnik,” Dell’s Barton George writes that Canonical, is now heavily supporting the …

NetApp Needs Some Missing Pieces To Keep Pace

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

NetApp has gone from an underdog in the market to one of the big players. They have kept with innovations to some extent through leadership with unified storage and new reference architectures. But to keep pace in the big data world, NetApp …

Linus Torvalds to Nvidia: “F**K You!”

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Linus Torvalds is definitely one of the toughest characters you will find in the tech world. Linux would not be what it is today without Torvalds and the passion he brings to the open-source movement. In this video recorded Thursday, Torvalds is …

Microsoft’s Yammer Acquisition Points to the State of the CRM Market

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

The news that Microsoft is buying Yammer points to the state of the CRM market and how social is becoming a core function in the architecture of modern, mission critical applications. It’s a scary scenario for Microsoft and a host of legacy …

The Future of PaaS

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

This afternoon at Deploycon I am moderating a panel: “The Future of PaaS.” I asked the panelists and others at the conference how they view the future of platform-as-a-service. Here is a smattering of what people had to say: Pervasive CTO Michael Hoskins …

Convergence v. Divergence or the Web Way v. the Old Way

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Yael McGuire works with Facebook on the Open Compute Project. He made a point in a session today at the Intel Forecast event that is worth exploring. His remarks illustrate the difference between companies like Facebook and EMC and how they view …

The Cloud is Not About Technology, It’s About Business

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

The cloud is not about technology, it’s about business. It’s about re-allocating your existing infrastructure to meet your business needs. Once you know your business goals then you can begin defining how your infrastructure is realigned. This is tbe big shift in …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

Bromium Raises $26 Million and Emerges from Stealth with a “Microvisor” That Takes the Human Factor into Consideration

The Spring of Convergence

Dell’s New Linux Laptop Built For Developers Will Query Github Repositories for Profiles

NetApp Needs Some Missing Pieces To Keep Pace

Linus Torvalds to Nvidia: “F**K You!”

The Future of PaaS

Convergence v. Divergence or the Web Way v. the Old Way

The Cloud is Not About Technology, It’s About Business

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