Alex Williams, Author at SiliconANGLE

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You Want Trends for 2012? Predictions? How About More Cowbell?

By Alex Williams Dec 20, 2011

I’m not interested in same old obvious trends. But if I had a fever, I’d give you these: Cowbell: Benioff! Ellison! More Cowbell: Big data! Real-time! Cloud! Trending Cowbell: Human Capital Management! Social Business!…

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Google Loves SAP Commitment to HTML5…Whither Silverlight?

By Alex Williams Dec 20, 2011

We had a call with SAP and Google executives this morning and it went okay. It’s great to see SAP show some interest in working with a company that has a real commitment to…

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How Not To Be Owned by Social Networks and What it Says About Modern Forms of Disaster Recovery

By Alex Williams Dec 20, 2011

After a prompt from a good friend last night, I started looking at Tarpipe again today. I used to love that service. I’d use it to send photos to Flickr and then on to…

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SAP’s Conflicted Efforts to Build a Developer Community

By Alex Williams Dec 19, 2011

It’s a late afternoon in Boston at the Park Plaza Hotel and SAP’s Dr. Raj Nathan is surrounded by a group of bloggers and analysts. It’s the annual SAP Influencer Summit and the day as you…

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Trips to the South Seas, Free Kindles and Other Impressive Perks Startups Offer To Get the Best Talent

By Alex Williams Dec 15, 2011

Talk to anyone in tech and the biggest challenge these days is finding talent. The competition is forcing startups to find more creative ways to attract employees. I saw a Reddit post that reflects on this…

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VirtuStream Acquires Enomaly and China Plays a Factor

By Alex Williams Dec 15, 2011

I had not heard from Reuven Cohen for a while. And now I know why. VirtuStream acquired Reuven’s company today for an undisclosed amount. Reuven is a CloudCamp founder and one of the first…

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Amazon Web Services First Major Cloud Provider to Open in South America with New Sao Paulo Data Center

By Alex Williams Dec 14, 2011

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is opening a new data center in Sao Paolo, Brazil, making it the first major cloud provider to launch in South America. It’s the eighth data center for AWS and…

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SAP and Google Form Partnership Aligning Google Apps and Google App Engine with Business By Design

By Alex Williams Dec 14, 2011

SAP and Google are aligning by integrating Google Apps with SAP Business By Design. In addition, the two companies will work to foster a developer community through Google App Engine and the Android operating…

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Making its Case: SAP HANA Coming to TIBCO, Tableau and Jive Software

By Alex Williams Dec 13, 2011

SAP is setting the stage for building a platform with SAP HANA at its core with capabilities for its in-memory technology across third party applications including TIBCO, Tableau and Jive Software. The news came…

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Tier 3 Brings .NET to CloudFoundry as Picture Emerges of the Platform Market

By Alex Williams Dec 13, 2011

Enterprise cloud provider Tier 3 announced today it has built and open-sourced “Iron Foundry,” a .NET environment for CloudFoundry, VMware’s fast developing platform as a service (PaaS). The move exemplifies Tier 3’s flexibility in developing enterprise…

Alex Williams

You Want Trends for 2012? Predictions? How About More Cowbell?

Google Loves SAP Commitment to HTML5…Whither Silverlight?

How Not To Be Owned by Social Networks and What it Says About Modern Forms of Disaster Recovery

SAP’s Conflicted Efforts to Build a Developer Community

Trips to the South Seas, Free Kindles and Other Impressive Perks Startups Offer To Get the Best Talent

VirtuStream Acquires Enomaly and China Plays a Factor

Amazon Web Services First Major Cloud Provider to Open in South America with New Sao Paulo Data Center

SAP and Google Form Partnership Aligning Google Apps and Google App Engine with Business By Design

Making its Case: SAP HANA Coming to TIBCO, Tableau and Jive Software

Tier 3 Brings .NET to CloudFoundry as Picture Emerges of the Platform Market

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