Alex Williams, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Steve Jobs Secret Gems and the Connection to Woz and the iCloud

By Alex Williams Aug 26, 2011

Steve Jobs may be known for his brand genius but his secret gems have always rested deep in the hardware of Apple’s simple, wondrous creations. It’s Jobs attention to beauty, elegance and performance that…

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Google’s Vic Gundotra: 4 Billion Hits to the +1 Button Every Day

By Alex Williams Aug 24, 2011

The +1 button on Web sites has been hit four billion times, according to a blog post today by Google Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra. In July, the +1 button crossed 2 billion daily views.…

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Top 10 Smartest and Snarkiest Tweets About the HP Turmoil

By Alex Williams Aug 19, 2011

Here’s something a bit lighthearted for the end of the week. My question: Who had the smartest tweets these past two days about HP’s shift to the enterprise? Who was the snarkiest? It’s during a…

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Amazon Web Services Offers Spot Market Capabilities for Managing Hadoop Clusters

By Alex Williams Aug 18, 2011

Amazon Web Services is combining two Amazon EC2 features: Spot Instances and Elastic MapReduce that will allow customers to launch and manage Hadoop clusters using unused EC2 capacity. According to Jeff Barr on the Amazon Web Services blog, customers will be…

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What’s the Future of In-Memory Databases with SSDs Coming into Fashion?

By Alex Williams Aug 18, 2011

Krishnan Subramanian and I were chatting over Skype yesterday. Krishnan is a well-known analyst and blogger. He asked a question about a post I wrote this week that looked at ten startups in the…

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Canonical, Dell, EnStratus and Opscode Join Cloud Foundry

By Alex Williams Aug 17, 2011

Canonical recently announced Ubuntu support for OpenStack. Now it’s joining Cloud Foundry to provide Ubuntu support for VMware’s open cloud platform and access to millions of desktops. It joins Dell, EnStratus and Opscode, which…

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Box Raising Another $35 Million – “God Bless the SEC”

By Alex Williams Aug 16, 2011

I just saw the news on Techmeme that Box is raising another $35 million. I’ll keep this brief. Wow. Combined with its past round that equates to $83 million in venture capital funding. Venture…

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Lead Up to VMworld: 5 Issues to Follow – What Will be the Hot Button?

By Alex Williams Aug 16, 2011

In the lead up to VMworld we are looking at some of the top issues we expect to unfold at the event. The following are five discussions we expect to hear about. These are based…

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A Usually Quiet Windows Chief Launches Pre-Windows 8 Blog

By Alex Williams Aug 15, 2011

The news about Windows 8 has been pretty sparse. Windows Chief Steve Sinofsky is known for keeping things quiet about big launches. But it looks like that’s going to change. Sinofsky wrote the first…

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Tipping the Balance – 10 Startups in the Race for the Flash Storage Market

By Alex Williams Aug 15, 2011

I was listening to SiliconANGLE Founder John Furrier on a call last Friday. He had a first-hand glimpse of the new superstars of the tech world last week at the Flash Memory Summit in…

Alex Williams

Steve Jobs Secret Gems and the Connection to Woz and the iCloud

Top 10 Smartest and Snarkiest Tweets About the HP Turmoil

Amazon Web Services Offers Spot Market Capabilities for Managing Hadoop Clusters

What’s the Future of In-Memory Databases with SSDs Coming into Fashion?

Canonical, Dell, EnStratus and Opscode Join Cloud Foundry

Box Raising Another $35 Million – “God Bless the SEC”

A Usually Quiet Windows Chief Launches Pre-Windows 8 Blog

Tipping the Balance – 10 Startups in the Race for the Flash Storage Market

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