Alex Williams

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

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EMC VSPEX: A Window into the Transformation of the Technology Stack

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

All week, we’ve been looking at the convergence space. Yesterday, IBM introduced its Pure Systems. Today, EMC announced VSPEX, its version of a bundled system that pulls in storage, network and compute into one package. It’s that turning point in the market …

Convergence is a Gold Mine But the Riches are in the Platform

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

We’re about two years into a new time for the enterprise. This week it feels like we have reached a turning point that will define the next generation of infrastructure and platforms. I spent the day at VMware, talking with the community …

How the Cloud Makes Convergence A $400 Billion Game

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Look at the news coming out this week and the trend lines are pretty clear that the enterprise giants are all banking on convergence as the hallmark of their cloud strategy. HP announced its plans on Tuesday for its cloud strategy that …

VMware Co-President Mark Peek Resigns to Become CFO at Workday

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

VMware CFO and Co-President Mark Peek is leaving the company to become the CFO of Workday. According to Forbes VMware also said that Carl Eschenbach, who had been co-president, customer operations, has been promoted to COO and co-president. Raghu Raghuram, who had been GM …

SAP Buys Leading Enterprise Mobile Development Shop and Announces $155 Million Startup Fund

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

It is all about HANA today at SAP’s press event in San Francisco. HANA as a real-time platform and HANA as the foundation for a major push to attract developers through a new $155 million fund for startups. With the news comes …

HP Opens Public Cloud

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

For months, we’ve heard the rumblings about HP’s public cloud. Insiders have been offering invites. HP’s intentions have been no secret, but now it is official. The HP Public cloud will open to the public on May 10. The move is part …

How In One Important Way Oxygen Cloud Has an Advantage Over Amazon Web Services

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Oxygen Cloud is an infrastructure to access content from anywhere by connecting it to a customer’s private storage system. That’s a pretty simple offering. But for many companies, this is the overriding issue. They struggle with how to move data around between …

A Conversation with SAP CIO Oliver Bussmann: What Happens When 15,000 iPads Are Given to Employees

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

SAP has an estimated 54,000 employees. About 40,000 of those employees carry iPads, iPhones, smart phones and tablets. That equaties to about 80% of its workforce as mobile ready. “We are the second largest user of iPads globally,” said SAP’s CIO Oliver …

The New School of Storage: Scality Rides the Unstructured Data Wave

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

The new school of storage is like any new artistic genre or intellectual movement. It grows out of organic disruption. It’s the offshoot of chaos, having its own impact on our culture and way of life. For our purposes, data is the …

Nokia’s Former Symbian Developers Leave En Masse from Accenture

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Last year, Nokia decided that it no longer needed Symbian anymore. Nope. The home grown mobile operating system needed to go. Instead, Nokia decided Microsoft would serve as its shining light to face the iPhone and Android onslaught. Nokia turned to Accenture …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

EMC VSPEX: A Window into the Transformation of the Technology Stack

Convergence is a Gold Mine But the Riches are in the Platform

How the Cloud Makes Convergence A $400 Billion Game

VMware Co-President Mark Peek Resigns to Become CFO at Workday

SAP Buys Leading Enterprise Mobile Development Shop and Announces $155 Million Startup Fund

HP Opens Public Cloud

How In One Important Way Oxygen Cloud Has an Advantage Over Amazon Web Services

A Conversation with SAP CIO Oliver Bussmann: What Happens When 15,000 iPads Are Given to Employees

The New School of Storage: Scality Rides the Unstructured Data Wave

Nokia’s Former Symbian Developers Leave En Masse from Accenture

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