Alex Williams

Alex Williams is an editor for SiliconAngle and lives a charmed life in Portland, Or.

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Will Analytics be Bigger Than ERP? IBM Seems to Think So

I ran across a profile of Fred Balboni. He’s the guy in charge of IBM’s global analytics group which launched in April 2009. At its launch, the Business Analytics and Optimization Practice had 4,000 people working in the group. Today, it has more than 8,000 consultants on staff. Balboni says the analytics market is a bigger ...

The Most Up to Date Android Phones [Infographic]

Keeping track of which device has what Android update can be crucial when considering an app development schedule or for determining preferred devices for a post-PC workforce. It’s a bit complex, considering the differing schedules that the manufacturers have for each device that they carry.  Google has been trying to standardize the update process. At ...

Top 10 Executives from VMworld

More than 70 people were interviewed on theCube this year at VMworld. Here are ten executives who we talked with over the past four days who caught our attention. Tarker Maner, CEO of Wyse Technology: One of the great characters to appear on #theCube. Maner is one of the “new generation” of CEOs we see ...

VMforce is Dead: The Platform Rivalry Heats Up Between Salesforce.com and VMware

The competition between VMware and Salesforce.com is pretty clear when you look at VMforce, the platform as a service launched last year by the two companies that is now all but dead. Salesforce.com and VMware launched the service in April of last year with the promise of offering VMware’s Spring as a platform for Java ...

The CIO and the VM Monster

The story at VMworld is really not about the cloud despite the marketing love for the idea. That is if you call flogging a concept to death as marketing. It’s not really the core issue. The real challenge is managing the risk of using virtualization and its effects on the entire business. That is most ...

A Quick Demo of VMware’s Virtual Mobile Phone

VMware announced its new mobile virtualization technology today. Last night I saw a demo of how it works. It’s a native integration which you can see in the responsiveness. The switch between work and personbal apps is pretty seamless. Services Angle The services that a mobile device can provide is really the key factor in ...

The Arrival of the Virtual Phone?

The post-PC era has its complications. Love your smart phone? Well, you may work for a company that adopted the Blackberry circa 2008. That creates a problem. It’s often the only mobile device that is synced to the company network. So what does that mean for people? Two phones – that iPhone you love and ...

Forget the Future – the Cloud Has Enough Problems Right Now

John Furrier had finished another interview on #theCube today and we started talking about OpenStack and VMware. There’s all kinds of speculation about how the cloud computing market will transform. But does that matter right now? John said Puppet Labs Founder and CEO Luke Kanies put it well in the discussion they had on theCube. ...

VMware’s Big Push for the Hybrid Cloud and the Battle for the Platform

The hybrid cloud is a major theme at VMworld this year and with it we are seeing the emergence of the platform as a key battle ground for VMware as it seeks to provide both infrastructure and platform capabilities. We see this in a variety of ways: VMware launched a new service intended to connect ...

5 Startups to Watch at VMworld

What’s with all these startups at VMworld this year? There are a number that are showing up in Las Vegas next week. Here are five that are catching our eye. We’ll be interviewing executives from some if not all of these companies during our live broadcasts from theCube at VMworld. Bromium: The San Francisco based start-up has ...