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

Companies Vie to Make Android Enterprise Ready as the BlackBerry Brand Burns

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

The BlackBerry e-mail service was one of the original enterprise cloud services. The on-premise BlackBerry Enterprise Server connects to RIM’s data centers and synchronizes e-mail which is delivered via the cloud to BlackBerry handhelds. But the days of RIM’s dominance in the …

Google’s Dart Programming Language Disappoints Hackers

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

As expected, Google announced its new programming language Dart at GOTO Conf. We previously reported on the language here. Dart is a new programming language that will run in its own virtual machine in Chrome and compile to JavaScript in other browsers. …

Clustrix CTO: In-Memory is a Hack to Throw Hardware at the Database Problem

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Dave Vellante and John Furrier interviewed Clustrix CTO Aaron Passey on theCube last week. Clustrix offers a highly scalable relational database that’s fully compatible with MySQL. Passey claims Clustrix can scale near-linearly. The most interesting bit of the interview is when asked …

NetApp’s Virtualization Evangelist Talks Trends (Plus: Billy Beane)

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

This week Wikibon co-founder and analyst Dave Vellante interviewed NetApp Virtualization Evangelist Vaughn Stewart on theCube at Oracle OpenWorld. Oracle is both a customer of and, since the Sun acquisition, a competitor of NetApp. “These days all your partnerships have some amount …

Steve Jobs: Technology Doesn’t Change the World, People Do

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

This morning John Furrier wrote “In memory of Steve Jobs let all of us try to do some ‘amazing’ and ‘share’ it with everyone.” That’s a great challenge and one that everyone, Apple fan or not, should aspire to rise to. Earlier …

Google Announces Database-as-a-Service for App Engine, Hot on Oracle’s Heels

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Yesterday Oracle announced a database-as-a-service offering and a Java platform-as-a-service as part of its Oracle Public Cloud, which is now in developer preview mode. Today Google announced its own DBaaS based on MySQL called Google Cloud SQL. As of now it appears …

Flashback: Steve Jobs’ Cloud Services Vision at NeXT

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Earlier our editor-in-chief Mark Hopkins wrote a piece about Jobs’ cloud and mobile vision from WWDC in 1997. I’d like to draw your attention even further back, to an interview Jobs did with Gary Wolf in Wired in 1996 when Jobs was …

Has Oracle Really Changed Its Lock-In Ways?

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Earlier today I said that Oracle really is a cloud company, and CEO Larry Ellison’s keynote this evening cemented that fact. In his Oracle Cloud keynote, Ellison revealed new Public Cloud services, including a Java platform-as-a-service and an Oracle database-a-a-service offering. Ellison …

Apple Board Says Steve Jobs Passed Away Today

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Steve Jobs, Chairman, co-founder and former CEO of Apple, passed away today according to a statement issued by the Apple board of directors. He was 56. Jobs had been struggling with cancer since 2004. Here’s the board’s statement: We are deeply saddened …

Yes Mr. Benioff, Oracle is a Cloud Company

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

I came down hard on Oracle for open washing Java and Berkley DB. But is the company cloud washing as well? No. Despite what Marc Benioff would have you think, Oracle is very much a cloud company. Benioff has labeled Oracle and …

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Latest from Klint Finley

Companies Vie to Make Android Enterprise Ready as the BlackBerry Brand Burns

Google’s Dart Programming Language Disappoints Hackers

Clustrix CTO: In-Memory is a Hack to Throw Hardware at the Database Problem

NetApp’s Virtualization Evangelist Talks Trends (Plus: Billy Beane)

Steve Jobs: Technology Doesn’t Change the World, People Do

Google Announces Database-as-a-Service for App Engine, Hot on Oracle’s Heels

Flashback: Steve Jobs’ Cloud Services Vision at NeXT

Apple Board Says Steve Jobs Passed Away Today

Yes Mr. Benioff, Oracle is a Cloud Company

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