Alex Williams

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

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VMware’s Cloud Foundry at OSCON – Platforms are Still New

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

VMware is not perceived as an open source provider. But the company’s Cloud Foundry is a bit different. It’s platform technology is available across multiple programming languages. It’s available as a service and an open source software. I caught up with Cloud …

Nebula – This Open Cloud Idea May Have Legs After all

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Nebula was announced at OSCON today, an OpenStack and OpenCompute initiative to provide open-source hardware and services infrastructure for enterprises to build open cloud infrastructures. Nebula will take OpenStack and the Facebook Open Compute project to create a cloud controller. The goal …

The Telling Story of a Once Faithful Google Apostle Saved by Vic Gundotra after Automated System Falsely Flags Account for Possessing Child Pornography

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

A man who once called himself a Google apostle has had his account restored after Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra personally looked into the matter and discovered the search giant’s automated systems had flagged one of his images as child pornography. Thomas Monopoly …

The OSCON Data Conference, DevOps and the Intersection of Search and Business Intelligence

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Attivio has added new connectors to its technology through integration of its active intelligence engine with data sources such as Hadoop, as well as data warehouses from vendors including HP Vertica, EMC Greenplum, IBM Netezza and Oracle. The Attivio enhancement is another …

Big Data Demands Leading to Greater NoSQL Acceptance by Corporate Developers

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

NoSQL is gaining acceptance by corporate enterprise developers – arguably even more so than the overall developer community. About 56% of enterprise developers report at least some use of NoSQL and 63% plan to use it in the next two years. That’s …

The China Equation: Alibaba to Unveil Smartphone and Mobile OS

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

In the United States and Europe, the talk is all about the iOS and the Android OS. But the news that China’s Alibaba is unveiling a smartphone and operating system shows that the focus for service providers needs to continue to extend …

Here’s a First – Buy 100 Google Apps Accounts and Get a Free Tablet

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

One of the world’s top Google Apps resellers is trying a new way to sell business accounts. Purchase 100 Google Apps business accounts and Excel Micro will throw in a Motorola Xoom, Android-based tablet. A good deal? For Excel Micro it’s a …

Quarterly Index: Virtualization Penetration in the U.S. and Europe

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Veeam Software is sponsoring an ongoing study to show how deep virtualization is spreading into the enterprise. Called the V-index, the study is being conducted by Vanson Bourne, an independent market research company. It is based on a survey of more than …

Outsourcing 3.0: 4 Trends the CIO Needs to Watch in the Cloud Computing Age

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

What should a CIO be paying attention to in this time of services innovation? According to an IDC analyst, there are at least four trends to watch. These include a scaling of services; data center transformation; big data provisioning and a consolidation in …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

VMware’s Cloud Foundry at OSCON – Platforms are Still New

Nebula – This Open Cloud Idea May Have Legs After all

The OSCON Data Conference, DevOps and the Intersection of Search and Business Intelligence

Big Data Demands Leading to Greater NoSQL Acceptance by Corporate Developers

The China Equation: Alibaba to Unveil Smartphone and Mobile OS

Here’s a First – Buy 100 Google Apps Accounts and Get a Free Tablet

Quarterly Index: Virtualization Penetration in the U.S. and Europe

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