Alex Williams

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

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Cloudera and Dell Align To Offer End-To-End, Open-Source Hadoop Cluster

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Cloudera and Dell are announcing today an end-to-end, open-source Hadoop cluster. The offering integrates Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution with Dell’s servers. Is there anything hotter than Hadoop? Yahoo spun out its Hadoop group to form HortonWorks earlier this summer. In the spring, EMC …

VMware Adjusts vSphere 5 Licensing – Launch Saved?

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The July 12 VMware launch for vSphere 5 was comprehensive in its scope. But much of what it offered was overshadowed by changes to its vRam licensing model that aligned costs with the benefits of virtualization rather than with the physical attributes of …

A Banking Cloud for 100 Million Customers – 1.7 Billion Mobile Phone Users Can’t Be Wrong

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

A cloud service for the banking world is launching with the capability to serve 100 million customers in emerging and established markets. The service from Polaris Software Labs will allow the Chennai-based financial technology company to offer its infrastructure and banking products …

Operation Cyber Rat – Worst Ever Attacks Another Sign of Anemic and Outdated Infrastructure

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The worst online attack in history is being uncovered and what we are learning is startling. In all, there is evidence of 72 networks being infiltrated, including the United Nations, 14 governments and major defense contractors. It’s being dubbed Operation Cyber Rat. …

A Big Data Solutions Provider Gets Another Big Round of Funding

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Appistry, a cloud solutions provider out of St. Louis, has closed a Series D $12 million round of funding. Appistry is best known for CloudIQ, its open platform designed for customers to create high-performance analytical applications used in the life sciences, banking, …

CumuLogic Launches A Federated Java Platform

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

CumuLogic announced the public beta of its Java platform today, citing its capabilities for running on multiple infrastructures. The product provides support for multiple clouds which include VMware, Amazon EC2, Cloud.com (Citrix) and Eucalyptus. OpenStack will soon be supported, too. CumuLogic is also …

10 Common Frustrations of the Systems Administrator

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

It’s tough to be a systems administrator. System Administrstor Day 2011 comes and goes with no fanfare here. But I feel I have to give a bit of credit to the IT guy who responds to the never ending run of calls …

The Chuck Hollis Version – How People Fit in the Move from Silos to Services

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The world looks so rosy from the Web. You live on the Web all day and you can’t fathom how anyone would choose otherwise. But if you have ever worked on a growing team, it gets a bit more complex. Who is …

Who is the CEO Hiring? An Interview with Sugar CRM’s Larry Augustin

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

I was talking with Sugar CRM CEO Larry Augustin before one of the OSCON keynotes this week and he started talking about who he would like to hire. What he said in many respects reflects the need for developers to have more …

Is Cloud Gateway Storage a Path for VARS to Become Services Providers?

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Dave Cahill wrote an excellent post on Wikibon today about gateway storage and how these providers may become the next generation storage systems. Cahill writes that historically a wave of disruption is flattened as the entrenched legacy providers build features that essentially …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

Cloudera and Dell Align To Offer End-To-End, Open-Source Hadoop Cluster

VMware Adjusts vSphere 5 Licensing – Launch Saved?

A Banking Cloud for 100 Million Customers – 1.7 Billion Mobile Phone Users Can’t Be Wrong

Operation Cyber Rat – Worst Ever Attacks Another Sign of Anemic and Outdated Infrastructure

A Big Data Solutions Provider Gets Another Big Round of Funding

10 Common Frustrations of the Systems Administrator

The Chuck Hollis Version – How People Fit in the Move from Silos to Services

Who is the CEO Hiring? An Interview with Sugar CRM’s Larry Augustin

Is Cloud Gateway Storage a Path for VARS to Become Services Providers?

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