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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

Live Blog: BoxWorks

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Today is Box’s first user conference, BoxWorks. I’m here covering the event live. LiveBlog: BoxWorks LiveBlog: BoxWorks Disclosure: Motorola announced it will give free Xooms to attendees. I’m not yet sure if the press are getting them as well.

It’s JRuby’s Time to Shine as Engine Yard Adds Support

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Today platform-as-a-service provider Engine Yard will announce support for JRuby, an implementation of the Ruby programming language designed to run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). All existing Engine Yard customers will need to do to run an existing Ruby application as …

Box Announces Mobile Enterprise Development Contest Winners

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Box announced the winners of its Mobile Dev Challenge this morning, a contest I helped judge. Participants were tasked with creating a mobile enterprise app that integrates with Box’s service. Bizmo, an accounting application took the top honors, and TouchDraw, a vector …

Open Source NoSQL Database Riak Hits 1.0

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Riak, an open source NoSQL database based on Amazon.com’s Dynamo architecture, reached the 1.0 milestone today. Basho, the project’s sponsor, offers an commercial version of the database with enterprise support. Like Apache CouchDB, Riak is written in Erlang and designed to handle …

SlideShare Dumps Flash, Goes All HTML5

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Starting today all new documents uploaded to SlideShare will be converted to HTML5 instead of Flash. Meanwhile, the company is running a process to re-convert all old documents into HTML5 with the goal of completely eliminating flash. SlideShare is a presentation and …

CloudFlare Launches Free IPv6 Gateway Service

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

The Internet ran out of addresses earlier this year when the primary pool of standard IP addresses, based on Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), was depleted. To help ease the transition towards the new IPv6 protocol, CloudFlare today announced a new free …

Salesforce.com CEO Confirms Forthcoming Do.com Service

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

We still don’t know much about what Do.com will be, but Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff just tweeted about the service, confirming for the first time that it is in fact a Salesforce.com property. Benioff wrote: “Do.com is salesforce’s new app to get …

Microsoft Adding Social Features to Dynamics

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Microsoft’s microblogging offering OfficeTalk may never see the light of day, but the company is adding Facebook-like social interface to cloud-hosted version of its Microsoft Dynamics product. The new feature, called Activity Feeds, was reported by CRM Buyer earlier this month, and …

Puppet 2.0 Will Support Amazon EC2 and VMware Provisioning

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Enterprise IT automation solution provider Puppet Labs will announce version 2.0 of its flagship Puppet Enterprise product at its PuppetConf event today. Most notably, the version brings support for provisioning virtual machines directly on Amazon EC2 or VMware. “Puppet has always integrated …

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