Alex Williams

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

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Earnings Call: Services Will Continue to Define IBM and VMware

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

IBM missed analyst expectations for the third quarter and weakness in traditional services is to blame. Customers appear to be scaling back, especially as the economy worsens in the United States and Europe. But ironically, its cloud services business is up significantly. …

Q&A with Tableau Software Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Pat Hanrahan [Part 1]

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Recently I had the opportunity to interview Pat Hanrahan, chief scientist and co-founder at Tableau Software, a leader in the data visualization field. In part one of our two part Q&A, Hanrahan discusses how data visualization has changed, the hindrances people face …

Dell Drops EMC – Ending 10 Year Relationship

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Dell is dropping EMC, ending a 10-year alliance that has become increasingly rocky in the past few years. Dell ended the relationship two years early. In a statement to Computerworld, Dell stated that it has “met the terms of the relationship agreement, …

Skype Infographic – No Silverlight Required [w00t]

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The one nice thing about a Microsoft infographic about Skype? No Silverlight required! If you want to see the video of Microsoft Skype President Tony Bates, that’s a different story. You’ll need Silverlight to see the interview with the new chief. Remember, …

Steve Ballmer Keynote: Showing Off Windows 8 and the New Lync

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Steve Ballmer gave a glimpse of the new Windows 8 on the client and server today at Dell World. Ballmer also used the keynote to show Lync with new capabilities that will allow for Skype integration with corporate instant messaging. Incidentally, the Skype …

Dell Gets It – Developers are the new Kingmakers

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Developers are the new king makers. I hear that RedMonk phrase more often these days. It came up again yesteday in an interview at Dell World with Barton George, Dell’s cloud computing evangelist whose core focus is to build a developer community. …

Buzz – Dell To Drop Android and Go All In On Windows 8 Tablets

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

I am at Dell World and there’s a lot of buzz that Dell will drop Android and go all in with Windows 8 for the tablet market. Dell CEO Michael Dell hinted at the news during a press and analyst event yesterday. …

Michael Dell Suggests Turmoil at HP is Opportunity for Dell

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Dell took a swipe at HP to start off its inaugural Dell World event with a survey it did in conjunction with a research group that found customers with 500 or more people are uncertain about the direction HP is taking. It’s …

The New Services Paradox – How IBM is Winning the Race to the Middle

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The new services paradox goes something like this: The new services companies want to grow and get big. Companies like Box.net dream of being as big as Microsoft. Salesforce.com dreams of slaying the Oracle beast. The technology giants want to be young …

Larry Ellison v. Marc Benioff – The Infographic

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The week seems so quiet. Last week, here we were, enjoying the spectacle of Oracle OpenWorld and the battles between Marc Benioff and Larry Ellison. Now what do we get? An infographic! What a fitting ending to the mad capped frivolity of …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

Q&A with Tableau Software Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Pat Hanrahan [Part 1]

Dell Drops EMC – Ending 10 Year Relationship

Skype Infographic – No Silverlight Required [w00t]

Steve Ballmer Keynote: Showing Off Windows 8 and the New Lync

Dell Gets It – Developers are the new Kingmakers

Buzz – Dell To Drop Android and Go All In On Windows 8 Tablets

Michael Dell Suggests Turmoil at HP is Opportunity for Dell

The New Services Paradox – How IBM is Winning the Race to the Middle

Larry Ellison v. Marc Benioff – The Infographic

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