Alex Williams, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Welcome to the Flat Universe – the Network Just Detached from the Mother Ship

By Alex Williams Feb 5, 2012

The network is detaching from the physical hardware and leading to the biggest change in network operations that the market has not seen in 25 years. It’s not a question of if this will…

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HP To Unveil Cloud Identity Services for OpenStack

By Alex Williams Feb 4, 2012

HP will launch a cloud identity service on Feb. 7, providing a universal access point and authentication to all HP cloud services and OpenStack’s identity-based Keystone API. According to an HP Web site, the…

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For the CFO – ERP in the Cloud [Infographic]

By Alex Williams Feb 4, 2012

NetSuite posted record earnings for the fourth quarter and 2011 fiscal year. The ERP SaaS provider had $64.1 million in revenues, representing a 23% increase over the prior year. Total revenue for the year…

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What Twitter Sentiment Analysis Says Abut Super Bowl Quarterbacks Eli Manning and Tom Brady

By Alex Williams Feb 2, 2012

What’s the Twitter sentiment for New York Giants Quarterback Eli Manning and New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady? IBM and the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism did sentiment analysis to determine…

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Cloud Sherpas: Google’s Partner of the Year

By Alex Williams Feb 1, 2012

You get a picture of the lucrative business Google Apps has become with Cloud Sherpas, which was named Google’s 2011 Enterprise Partner of the year this week. Just take a look at the four-year-old company’s growth…

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NoOps – A Big Lie or a Political Shift?

By Alex Williams Feb 1, 2012

NoOps – look up the term on Twitter search and you’ll see tweets such as this: @GeorgeReese: “NoOps is as stupid a term as NoSQL.” @allNoOps: “beats “cloud”, “agile”, and “SOPA” as the dumbest…

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Node.js: Unprecedented Growth Distorts True Acceptance

By Alex Williams Jan 31, 2012

On theCube at NodeSummit, RedMonk Co-Founder Stephen O’Grady said that Node.js is showing incredibly fast adoption, almost without precedent. Most frameworks and programming languages take years to reach the trough of disillusionment. Node.js has…

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EMC’s Corporate Play: Combining Greenplum and Isilon By Building Hadoop Into Storage

By Alex Williams Jan 31, 2012

EMC is building Hadoop into Isilon, its network attached storage. The new offering will package EMC Greenplum with Isilon to create a solution that allows for a storage infrastructure that comes with Hadoop. EMC…

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Enter the Penguin – Linux Coming to Windows Azure

By Alex Williams Jan 26, 2012

Microsoft’s transformation to a cross-platform services provider tells a story about a company that realizes abundance, not scarcity, is driving the market. During Microsft’s dynasty days, its Windows operating system dominated the software landscape.…

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Amazon Web Services New Cloud Gateway Opens the Flood Gateway

By Alex Williams Jan 25, 2012

Amazon Web Services launched AWS Cloud Gateway today, which connects on-premise software appliances with cloud-based storage. It heralds the rise of cloud services for back up storage and an example of the challenges traditional…

Alex Williams

Welcome to the Flat Universe – the Network Just Detached from the Mother Ship

HP To Unveil Cloud Identity Services for OpenStack

For the CFO – ERP in the Cloud [Infographic]

What Twitter Sentiment Analysis Says Abut Super Bowl Quarterbacks Eli Manning and Tom Brady

NoOps – A Big Lie or a Political Shift?

Node.js: Unprecedented Growth Distorts True Acceptance

EMC’s Corporate Play: Combining Greenplum and Isilon By Building Hadoop Into Storage

Enter the Penguin – Linux Coming to Windows Azure

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