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Alex Williams

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

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Google to Drop Sync Support for Blackberry

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Can you smell blood in the water? It looks like Google does. In a blog post released today, the company announced that on June 1, it will drop support for Google Sync for BlackBerry. The news came as part of what Google calls …

Getting to the Heart of OpenStack: Part 1

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Former NASA Nebula Chief Technical Architect Joshua McKenty, and Rackspace alumni Christopher MacGown are two of Piston Cloud‘s original founders. They are also two individuals who helped start OpenStack. Yes, they’re among the smartest you will find in the open cloud world. And …

IBM Earnings Reflect On Big Blue’s Storage Strategy

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

IBM storage revenues decreased 4%  in the first quarter. It’s noteworthy for a few reasons. Ir reinforces the results posted by Gartner last month that shows soft demand for external-controller based disk storage.  The market grew only 4.8%. Gartner expected growth of 7.6%. …

Raising Questions About IBM’s Services Approach

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

IBM posted mixed earnings results today. Its dividend beat street estimates by 13 cents but revenues were flat with services showing limited gains. Big Blue’s Global Technology Services segment saw revenues increase 2% to $10 billion. But the Global Business Services segment …

14 Companies Looking for “Big Data Engineers”

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Do a search on Indeed.com for “big data engineer” and you will find 26 listings. That compares to ten job listings for “big data architects.” I became curious about this new job description when I saw a job post from Disqus. Then …

Object Storage is Hot at NAB

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

The scale of data storage in demand by media and entertainment companies is taking new dimensions at this year’s National Association Broadcast annual event in Las Vegas. One thing is clear: RAID Storage is on the way out and object storage is …

Brocade: VSPEX Gives The Channel More Options

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Reliability is the prerequisite for advocates of the private cloud (or the modern data center depending on what you want to call it). It’s in contrast to the public cloud that views latency as a primary issue. The differences are significant and …

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