Alex Williams

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

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Rackspace Open-Sources A Node.js Library for Creating and Parsing XML Documents

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

The issues that come with connecting the legacy enterprise to the cloud mean dealing with heavyweight technologies such as XML. To that end, Rackspace developers have built and open-sourced a library for creating XML documents called “node-elementtree,” a Node.js Library to build …

Training Software for the Increasingly Complex World of IT

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

In a recent MarketScape report, IDC reported that 80 percent of IT managers believe effective training is critical to the success of a project. At the same time, nearly a third of IT budgets are set aside for education. There is a …

How Data Will Change the Role of the CIO in the Next Decade

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Two stories this week illustrate how much data will change the role of the CIO in the next decade. The first comes from CIO.com, with a story about how the role of the CIO will change by 2020. In every example, it’s …

What to Tell Your Boss If You Partied Too Much at IBM Impact

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

“The beer was so awesome I could not find my room.” That’s not exactly what you want to tell the boss when you get back from Vegas after a week at a conference like IBM Impact. Here’s what you do want to …

Dreamhost Founder Leading New Services Firm to Support Ceph – the Popular Open Source Scaling Storage System

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

The original developers behind the open source scaling storage system known as Ceph have formed Inktank, a professional services firm that will be led by Dreamhost Co-Founder Sage Weil. The company will offer enterprise level support for Ceph, which has grown in …

VMware Project Octopus and How it Stacks Up to Google Drive

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Google launched Google Drive two weeks ago. For me, the service makes it simple to clear my hard drive of objects that I want access to later but without the messiness that comes with storing them locally on my already cluttered desktop. …

How Services Providers Can Benefit From IBM’s New Patterns Technology

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Systems integrators and outsourcers have done very well over the years servicing IBM customers. Building data centers from the ground up, integrating middleware and configuring it all in a secure manner can keep a technical services team filled up with work. But …

Cloud in a Box? Meet IBM’s PaaS in a Box

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

The IBM Impact event this week is a clear reminder that the big enterprise technology vendors are banking on customers consolidating their data centers with the DevOps movement playing a focal role. But it’s IBM’s take that will sure to create much …

IBM Drops Siebel and Adopts Sugar CRM for World’s Largest CRM Implementation

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

SugarCRM is an IBM darling. They received good billing at IBM Lotusphere and they are getting it again here at IBM Websphere. Today came the news that IBM is giving up on its massive project to implement Siebel Systems and is turning …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

Rackspace Open-Sources A Node.js Library for Creating and Parsing XML Documents

Training Software for the Increasingly Complex World of IT

How Data Will Change the Role of the CIO in the Next Decade

What to Tell Your Boss If You Partied Too Much at IBM Impact

Dreamhost Founder Leading New Services Firm to Support Ceph – the Popular Open Source Scaling Storage System

VMware Project Octopus and How it Stacks Up to Google Drive

How Services Providers Can Benefit From IBM’s New Patterns Technology

Cloud in a Box? Meet IBM’s PaaS in a Box

IBM Drops Siebel and Adopts Sugar CRM for World’s Largest CRM Implementation

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