Klint Finley

Klint Finley is a Senior Writer at SiliconAngle. His specialties
include IT services, enterprise technology and software development.
Prior to SiliconAngle he was a writer for ReadWriteWeb. He's also a
former IT practicioner, and has written about technology for over a
decade. He can be contacted at angle@klintfinley.com.

Latest from Klint Finley

Facebook as an Enterprise Vendor? It’s Not as Crazy as It Sounds

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

GigaOM’s Derreck Harris asks whether Facebook might be the next big enterprise software vendor. Why isn’t it crazy? Well, look at Amazon.com. Amazon.com is and was an e-commerce giant. But in 2006, it decided to capitalize on its computing infrastructure. Now it’s …

IBM PaaS: It’s All About the Middleware

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

IBM’s been working on its WebSphere based platform-as-a-service for years now. GigaOM first reported a public beta of the service way back in 2009. This week IBM gave its SmartCloud portfolio of service a big push, including a general availability version of …

RIP Dennis Ritchie, Co-Creator of Unix and Creator of the C Programming Language

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie wasn’t as famous as Steve Jobs, but his contributions to technology are at least as mammoth. Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs confirmed today that Ritchie died October 8th. He was best known as the co-creator of Unix and creator …

Cloud Sync Gets Hotter: Citrix Acquires ShareFile

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

I’ve been saying in recent weeks that file syncing is hot. Dropbox reportedly declined a $600 million acquisition offer from Apple, and Box is rumored to have declined an offer of over $500 million. Dropbox is now considered the 6th most valuable …

A Leaked Memo, and What Google Plus Can Learn from Google Apps

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Today a Google developer named Steve Yegge made waves by accidentally publishing a long rant publicly on Google Plus instead of sharing it only internally. The jist of the post is that Google just doesn’t get “platforms” and unless it does, Google …

Benchmark, Yammer Poach Executives from Salesforce.com

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Today TechCrunch reported that former Salesforce.com CTO Craig Weissman is joining Benchmark Capital as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Meanwhile, Yammer announced that former Salesforce.com VP of Vertical Sales David Obrand is joining Yammer as VP of Global Sales. Obrand is a big score for …

Big Data at Monsanto: Genome Sequencing with BigCouch

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Today Cloudant, the sponsor company behind the Apache CouchDB-based open source BigCouch project, announced a new customer acquisition: the controversial agriculture company Monsanto. Monsanto is using BigCouch to manage its genome sequencing data analysis, a commonly cited big data problem. Monsanto isn’t …

Egnyte Takes On Box with Server Sync and More

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Today Box officially announced its new $81 million round of funding, taking the company’s total raised this year to $164 million. Following its BoxWorks event last month and rumors it turned down an acquisition bid over $500 million, Box is shaping up …

Google Grabs Talent Behind Social Analytics Company SocialGrapple

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Google has acquired SocialGrapple, a social graph analytics company founded by Andrey Petrov. Petrov issued a statement saying that SocialGrapple is being shut down as part of the acquisition. Google confirmed to Dain Binder that Petrov is joining Google, making this is …

Klint Finley

Latest from Klint Finley

Facebook as an Enterprise Vendor? It’s Not as Crazy as It Sounds

RIP Dennis Ritchie, Co-Creator of Unix and Creator of the C Programming Language

A Leaked Memo, and What Google Plus Can Learn from Google Apps

Benchmark, Yammer Poach Executives from Salesforce.com

Big Data at Monsanto: Genome Sequencing with BigCouch

Google Grabs Talent Behind Social Analytics Company SocialGrapple

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