Alex Williams

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

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Steve Jobs Secret Gems and the Connection to Woz and the iCloud

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Steve Jobs may be known for his brand genius but his secret gems have always rested deep in the hardware of Apple’s simple, wondrous creations. It’s Jobs attention to beauty, elegance and performance that have made him such a leader and reason …

Top 10 Smartest and Snarkiest Tweets About the HP Turmoil

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Here’s something a bit lighthearted for the end of the week. My question: Who had the smartest tweets these past two days about HP’s shift to the enterprise? Who was the snarkiest? It’s during a week like this that I want the gold …

Amazon Web Services Offers Spot Market Capabilities for Managing Hadoop Clusters

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services is combining two Amazon EC2 features: Spot Instances and Elastic MapReduce that will allow customers to launch and manage Hadoop clusters using unused EC2 capacity. According to Jeff Barr on the Amazon Web Services blog, customers will be able to run long-running jobs, cost-driven workloads, data-critical workloads, …

What’s the Future of In-Memory Databases with SSDs Coming into Fashion?

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Krishnan Subramanian and I were chatting over Skype yesterday. Krishnan is a well-known analyst and blogger. He asked a question about a post I wrote this week that looked at ten startups in the flash memory storage market. He wanted to know …

Canonical, Dell, EnStratus and Opscode Join Cloud Foundry

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Canonical recently announced Ubuntu support for OpenStack. Now it’s joining Cloud Foundry to provide Ubuntu support for VMware’s open cloud platform and access to millions of desktops. It joins Dell, EnStratus and Opscode, which all are joining Cloud Foundry, one of the …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

Steve Jobs Secret Gems and the Connection to Woz and the iCloud

Top 10 Smartest and Snarkiest Tweets About the HP Turmoil

Amazon Web Services Offers Spot Market Capabilities for Managing Hadoop Clusters

What’s the Future of In-Memory Databases with SSDs Coming into Fashion?

Canonical, Dell, EnStratus and Opscode Join Cloud Foundry

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Tipping the Balance – 10 Startups in the Race for the Flash Storage Market

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