Alex Williams, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Earnings Call: Services Will Continue to Define IBM and VMware

By Alex Williams Oct 18, 2011

IBM missed analyst expectations for the third quarter and weakness in traditional services is to blame. Customers appear to be scaling back, especially as the economy worsens in the United States and Europe. But…

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Q&A with Tableau Software Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Pat Hanrahan [Part 1]

By Alex Williams Oct 18, 2011

Recently I had the opportunity to interview Pat Hanrahan, chief scientist and co-founder at Tableau Software, a leader in the data visualization field. In part one of our two part Q&A, Hanrahan discusses how…

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Dell Drops EMC – Ending 10 Year Relationship

By Alex Williams Oct 17, 2011

Dell is dropping EMC, ending a 10-year alliance that has become increasingly rocky in the past few years. Dell ended the relationship two years early. In a statement to Computerworld, Dell stated that it…

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Skype Infographic – No Silverlight Required [w00t]

By Alex Williams Oct 14, 2011

The one nice thing about a Microsoft infographic about Skype? No Silverlight required! If you want to see the video of Microsoft Skype President Tony Bates, that’s a different story. You’ll need Silverlight to…

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Steve Ballmer Keynote: Showing Off Windows 8 and the New Lync

By Alex Williams Oct 14, 2011

Steve Ballmer gave a glimpse of the new Windows 8 on the client and server today at Dell World. Ballmer also used the keynote to show Lync with new capabilities that will allow for Skype…

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Dell Gets It – Developers are the new Kingmakers

By Alex Williams Oct 14, 2011

Developers are the new king makers. I hear that RedMonk phrase more often these days. It came up again yesteday in an interview at Dell World with Barton George, Dell’s cloud computing evangelist whose…

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Buzz – Dell To Drop Android and Go All In On Windows 8 Tablets

By Alex Williams Oct 13, 2011

I am at Dell World and there’s a lot of buzz that Dell will drop Android and go all in with Windows 8 for the tablet market. Dell CEO Michael Dell hinted at the…

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Michael Dell Suggests Turmoil at HP is Opportunity for Dell

By Alex Williams Oct 12, 2011

Dell took a swipe at HP to start off its inaugural Dell World event with a survey it did in conjunction with a research group that found customers with 500 or more people are…

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The New Services Paradox – How IBM is Winning the Race to the Middle

By Alex Williams Oct 12, 2011

The new services paradox goes something like this: The new services companies want to grow and get big. Companies like Box.net dream of being as big as Microsoft. Salesforce.com dreams of slaying the Oracle…

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Larry Ellison v. Marc Benioff – The Infographic

By Alex Williams Oct 10, 2011

The week seems so quiet. Last week, here we were, enjoying the spectacle of Oracle OpenWorld and the battles between Marc Benioff and Larry Ellison. Now what do we get? An infographic! What a…

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Q&A with Tableau Software Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Pat Hanrahan [Part 1]

Dell Drops EMC – Ending 10 Year Relationship

Skype Infographic – No Silverlight Required [w00t]

Steve Ballmer Keynote: Showing Off Windows 8 and the New Lync

Dell Gets It – Developers are the new Kingmakers

Buzz – Dell To Drop Android and Go All In On Windows 8 Tablets

Michael Dell Suggests Turmoil at HP is Opportunity for Dell

The New Services Paradox – How IBM is Winning the Race to the Middle

Larry Ellison v. Marc Benioff – The Infographic

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