Alex Williams, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Oracle “Exalytics” – the Frankenstein Follow Up to Cloud in a Box?

By Alex Williams Sep 30, 2011

Yesterday I reported that Oracle will launch a NoSQL database at Oracle OpenWorld. In addition, the company will unveil a Hadoop data loader and in-memory store. So is Oracle becoming a true big data…

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Oracle to Launch NoSQL Database at OpenWorld

By Alex Williams Sep 29, 2011

Oracle plans to launch and demo a NoSQL database at Oracle OpenWorld next week along with a Hadoop data builder and in-memory data store. According to information from the Oracle Open World Web site,…

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Yammer – the Search Angle on its $17 Million From a Facebook Backed Fund

By Alex Williams Sep 28, 2011

Yammer received another round of investment on Tuesday. This time $17 million from a Facebook-backed fund. The fund is led by Social+Capital Partnership, established by former Facebook Vice President Chamath Palihapitiya. Facebook is an investor…

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Violin Memory Marches into Airports – Hypergrowth Ahead for Flash Market?

By Alex Williams Sep 27, 2011

No pun intended but Violin Memory is one of the more flashier companies in the red-hot storage space. That’s apparent in a few ways. Today the company announced new flash storage arrays for what…

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The Future for Enterprise Search is as a Service

By Alex Williams Sep 26, 2011

Lucid Imagination is launching a cloud-based platform for search with connectors to Hadoop, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Sharepoint CMS. LucidWorks Cloud is what the company calls a “Search as a Service” offering. It joins LucidWorks…

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Get Me Another Virtual Machine – We Need More Cowbell!

By Alex Williams Sep 26, 2011

The platform market is changing the way apps are delivered and points to a future that raises some questions about the role of virtualization in cloud computing. For example, this past week Heroku began…

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What is Amazon ElastiCache?

By Alex Williams Sep 23, 2011

Simon Brunozzi is a developer with Amazon Web Services. He produced an excellent primer about Amazon’s ElastiCache service. The fast-paced demo comes with a basic and clear explanation about memory caching, Memcached and how…

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The Data Graph in Facebook and Supply Chains

By Alex Williams Sep 22, 2011

Peering into the live stream for the Facebook Developer conference is like looking into a scientist’s laboratory about the future of business. But take a step back and its apparent that innovative uses for…

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Cloudscaling Gets Funding – Doubles Down on OpenStack

By Alex Williams Sep 21, 2011

I have to get one more post done tonight to note the news that Cloudscaling has secured an A round from Trinity Ventures. Cloudscaling is known for building cloud infrastructures. The company is one…

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OpenStack Releases Diablo – Barely Production Ready but Getting More Stable

By Alex Williams Sep 21, 2011

OpenStack’s latest release is now available, the first ever production ready open cloud infrastructure. Diablo is OpenStack’s fourth release. It includes updates to the storage, compute and image services. We should place an asterisk to what…

Alex Williams

Oracle “Exalytics” – the Frankenstein Follow Up to Cloud in a Box?

Oracle to Launch NoSQL Database at OpenWorld

Yammer – the Search Angle on its $17 Million From a Facebook Backed Fund

Violin Memory Marches into Airports – Hypergrowth Ahead for Flash Market?

The Future for Enterprise Search is as a Service

Get Me Another Virtual Machine – We Need More Cowbell!

What is Amazon ElastiCache?

The Data Graph in Facebook and Supply Chains

Cloudscaling Gets Funding – Doubles Down on OpenStack

OpenStack Releases Diablo – Barely Production Ready but Getting More Stable

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