Alex Williams

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

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Apple Continues to Expand Enterprise Power Base

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Apple’ expansion of its power base in the enterprise became readily apparent today at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference: According to 9 to 5 Mac Daily, Apple announced at WWDC it sold 26 million copies of Lion in only 9 months. That is …

Why is Larry Ellison’s Twitter Account Featured on the Oracle.com Home Page?

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

The Oracle.com home page today features the Larry Ellison Twitter account with his picture, the Twitter icon and today’s date: 6/6/12. Larry Ellison Twitter has not updated his Twitter account but this may be the day he gets started. Speculation has been …

Automation and Easier Aggregation in Hadoop Clusters Signals Data as a Service Trend

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Yesterday I wrote about Cascading 2.0, an alternative to MapReduce. The application framework, managed by Concurrent, allows for developers to develop “Cascading,” big data apps using high-level scripting languages. The apps then get scheduled to run across a Hadoop cluster. Also yesterday, …

On the Storage Battlefield, IBM and HP Fight to Get Their Mojo Back

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Everyone wants to tell the world how much better they are than Amazon Web Services. HP has Meg Whitman on stage tomorrow under the big tent at HP Discover. Larry Ellison will make his own proclamations this week when I expect he …

Cascading 2.0: An Application Framework for Hadoop Winning the Attention of Twitter, Etsy and EMC

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Cascading is an open-source application framework getting the attention of Twitter, Etsy, AirBnB and big data analytics companies such as EMC Greemplum and Map R. The popularity stems from its ability to abstract the complexities of MapReduce and making Hadoop clusters easier …

Data Gravity in a Converged Infrastructure

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

VMware’s Dave McCrory created the concept of data gravity. It’s a way to show how data has a gravitational pull. Yesterday, I discovered a blog post by Steve Chambers, who works in the office of the CTO for VCE, the VMware, Cisco, …

Facebook to Chrome and Safari Users: “You Are Using a Browser We Do Not Support”

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Facebook has a message on its site for people who use Google Chrome or the Apple Safari browser: You’re using a web browser we don’t support. Try one of these options to have a better experience on Facebook. The browsers Facebook does …

Google Chromebook and the new Chromebox: Another Node for a Services World

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Google announced today its latest Chromebook, and a new Chromebox that continue to show that hardware increasingly represent nodes for an increasingly dominant services oriented world. It will soon be true that everything is a node. We won’t need desktops or laptops. A …

HP, Dell and IBM Continue to Languish Compared to EMC and NetApp

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

HP, Dell and IBM continue to languish in the storage market when compared to the big guns such as EMC and NetApp. In a post on StorageNewsletter.com, Jean-Jacques Maleval writes that EMC, NetApp and Hitachi continue to grow fastest in the storage market. …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

Apple Continues to Expand Enterprise Power Base

Why is Larry Ellison’s Twitter Account Featured on the Oracle.com Home Page?

Automation and Easier Aggregation in Hadoop Clusters Signals Data as a Service Trend

On the Storage Battlefield, IBM and HP Fight to Get Their Mojo Back

Cascading 2.0: An Application Framework for Hadoop Winning the Attention of Twitter, Etsy and EMC

Data Gravity in a Converged Infrastructure

Facebook to Chrome and Safari Users: “You Are Using a Browser We Do Not Support”

Google Chromebook and the new Chromebox: Another Node for a Services World

HP, Dell and IBM Continue to Languish Compared to EMC and NetApp

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