Alex Williams, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Who Cares if a Toilet Maker Has More Data Than the Library of Congress? [Infographic]

By Alex Williams Feb 21, 2012

The Library of Congress is so often used to compare how much more data we produce than could ever be stored in a building with seemingly endless shelves filled with books. It’s an analogy…

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Salesforce.com Improves Its Facebook Integration. Where Are the Big Service Providers?

By Alex Williams Feb 21, 2012

Last year, Salesforce.com introduced the Force.com Facebook Tool Kit. It allowed a Salesforce.com user to pull in data from Facebook and start using the Facebook Graph API. It had the capability to read the…

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OK Labs Develops A Defense Grade Mobile Smartphone That May Appeal to the CIO

By Alex Williams Feb 21, 2012

Open Kernel Labs is announcing a defense grade mobile smartphone that the company is positioning for the enterprise market. LG will manufacture the devices as part of an OK Labs contract with the Department…

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CIO Watch Out: Do IT Service Providers Understand the New Cloud Economy?

By Alex Williams Feb 20, 2012

Gartner Research Analyst Dennis Gaughan recently gave a talk about the major IT vendors that has some great nuggets for the CIO trying to make sense of the tactics employed by IBM, SAP, Oracle and…

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Basecamp Goes Back to the Basics with a New, Cleaner UI

By Alex Williams Feb 16, 2012

37 Signals Founder Jason Fried previewed a redesign today for Basecamp that has three things in mind: Speed Big Picture Focus It’s the first time since 2004 that Basecamp has had such an overhaul.…

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Parallels Carving up the $1.1 Trillion Small Business IT Market One Hosting Service at a Time

By Alex Williams Feb 15, 2012

At the Parallels Summit here in Orlando, there are about 750 to 800 hosting services that serve 5o to 70 million businesses. This week, the event is the epicenter of the Web hosting world, a…

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48 Hours Later and 6 New and Updated Versions of the Private Cloud

By Alex Williams Feb 15, 2012

I started this week at CloudConnect in Santa Clara. Today I am at the Parallels conference in Orlando. In this short 48 hours I’ve heard of six new versions or updates of the private…

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BitNami Offers App Package for the Private (and Public) Cloud

By Alex Williams Feb 13, 2012

BitNami is known for packaging open source apps. It’s a pretty handy service. A customer can run a BitNami app package on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other public cloud environments. In all, BitNami…

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A 17-Year-Old Developer Laments About His 19-Year-Old Rival and His $1.1 Million Funding

By Alex Williams Feb 13, 2012

I think there are lessons for the enterprise in stories like the one I discovered on DZone about a 17-year-old lamenting about his rival who just received $1.1 million in funding and a feature…

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A Developer Looks at the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Logging Consulting Hours

By Alex Williams Feb 10, 2012

Good to see the perspective of a developer working in the trenches of a dev shop where often startups go to get the grunt work done. Anarchogeek calls it the underbelly of the software…

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Who Cares if a Toilet Maker Has More Data Than the Library of Congress? [Infographic]

Salesforce.com Improves Its Facebook Integration. Where Are the Big Service Providers?

OK Labs Develops A Defense Grade Mobile Smartphone That May Appeal to the CIO

Basecamp Goes Back to the Basics with a New, Cleaner UI

Parallels Carving up the $1.1 Trillion Small Business IT Market One Hosting Service at a Time

48 Hours Later and 6 New and Updated Versions of the Private Cloud

BitNami Offers App Package for the Private (and Public) Cloud

A 17-Year-Old Developer Laments About His 19-Year-Old Rival and His $1.1 Million Funding

A Developer Looks at the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Logging Consulting Hours

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