Alex Williams

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

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Intel Really Is Developing for OpenStack: An Interview with Billy Cox

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Intel is demonstrating a console for managing security and power management for OpenStack here at the Intel Developer Forum. We saw a demo of the management console yesterday. I did a quick interview with Intel’s Billy Cox, who runs the company’s Cloud …

Live Blog: Solving the World’s Big Problems with High Performance Computing

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Where will the new oil be discovered? What will be the impact on water resources with practices such as fracting, the process of extracting underground natural gas? These are the types of topics that are being explored in the world of high …

Facebook’s Validation Point – A Web 2.0 Company Tackles Legacy Problems

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The Facebook Open Compute story is a pretty clear effort to position itself as a leader in open data center design. But it also provides a way for it to show enterprise operators the way it manages data volumes that rival any …

Ultrabooks – Intel Stays Committed to the PC Style

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The Ultrabook is Intel’s answer to the new mobile computing landscape. During his keynote today at the Intel Developer Forum, CEO Paul Otellini pushed heavily on the topic of mobility with a road map that shows how invested the company is in …

SAP Sybase Downplays NoSQL for ISVs

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

In a briefing on Friday, I learned about Sybase new “SQL Anywhere OnDemand Edition,” that in a press release the company says “provides cloud-specific tooling and features that allow ISVs to manage data for cloud applications that meet both their business needs and …

Activity Streams are the New Information Cortex: 4 Examples [Infographic]

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

I’ve written a lot about activity streams over the past few years. Yesterday I, reported the news about Strides, the new service from VMware’s Socialcast that combines activity streams with task management. Strides shows tasks and the activity stream in a two-pane …

The Next Phase of Microblogging

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Microblogging received a lot of criticism in its early days as one-dimensional. Its value quickly caught on as new features were added by companies such as Yammer, Tibco Tibbr, Qontext and a host of others. Now comes the next phase of microblogging. …

Obama Wants Crowdfunding as Kickstarter Idea Spreads to White House

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

U.S. President Barack Obama is loving this idea of crowdfunding. In tandem with the presidential address tonight, a post on the White House blog said that as part of the America Jobs Act, Obama will seek more access to equity capital and the …

What is Big Data? 4 Definitions

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The talk about big data can be deafening. But what is it really? I was looking at a post by Wikibon Co-Founder David Floyer who did a comprehensive overview on the topic earlier this summer and thought it might be worth looking …

Learning Lessons for Building a Reliable and Secure API

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

RESTful APIs are becoming a standard for gluing apps in a Web oriented environment. Twitter, Google and a host of other Web properties have thrived by developing their own REST APIs. The use is so widespread that there are some developers who maintain …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

Intel Really Is Developing for OpenStack: An Interview with Billy Cox

Live Blog: Solving the World’s Big Problems with High Performance Computing

Facebook’s Validation Point – A Web 2.0 Company Tackles Legacy Problems

Ultrabooks – Intel Stays Committed to the PC Style

SAP Sybase Downplays NoSQL for ISVs

Activity Streams are the New Information Cortex: 4 Examples [Infographic]

The Next Phase of Microblogging

Obama Wants Crowdfunding as Kickstarter Idea Spreads to White House

What is Big Data? 4 Definitions

Learning Lessons for Building a Reliable and Secure API

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