Alex Williams, Author at SiliconANGLE

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VMware’s Cloud Foundry at OSCON – Platforms are Still New

By Alex Williams Jul 28, 2011

VMware is not perceived as an open source provider. But the company’s Cloud Foundry is a bit different. It’s platform technology is available across multiple programming languages. It’s available as a service and an…

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Open Cloud Initiative – the Issue is About Freedom

By Alex Williams Jul 28, 2011

There are increasing calls for online services to provide a set of guidelines that allow for more universal standards that protect individual rights and the freedom to move data where and when people wish.…

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Nebula – This Open Cloud Idea May Have Legs After all

By Alex Williams Jul 27, 2011

Nebula was announced at OSCON today, an OpenStack and OpenCompute initiative to provide open-source hardware and services infrastructure for enterprises to build open cloud infrastructures. Nebula will take OpenStack and the Facebook Open Compute…

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The Telling Story of a Once Faithful Google Apostle Saved by Vic Gundotra after Automated System Falsely Flags Account for Possessing Child Pornography

By Alex Williams Jul 27, 2011

A man who once called himself a Google apostle has had his account restored after Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra personally looked into the matter and discovered the search giant’s automated systems had flagged one…

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The OSCON Data Conference, DevOps and the Intersection of Search and Business Intelligence

By Alex Williams Jul 25, 2011

Attivio has added new connectors to its technology through integration of its active intelligence engine with data sources such as Hadoop, as well as data warehouses from vendors including HP Vertica, EMC Greenplum, IBM…

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Big Data Demands Leading to Greater NoSQL Acceptance by Corporate Developers

By Alex Williams Jul 25, 2011

NoSQL is gaining acceptance by corporate enterprise developers – arguably even more so than the overall developer community. About 56% of enterprise developers report at least some use of NoSQL and 63% plan to…

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The China Equation: Alibaba to Unveil Smartphone and Mobile OS

By Alex Williams Jul 22, 2011

In the United States and Europe, the talk is all about the iOS and the Android OS. But the news that China’s Alibaba is unveiling a smartphone and operating system shows that the focus…

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Here’s a First – Buy 100 Google Apps Accounts and Get a Free Tablet

By Alex Williams Jul 22, 2011

One of the world’s top Google Apps resellers is trying a new way to sell business accounts. Purchase 100 Google Apps business accounts and Excel Micro will throw in a Motorola Xoom, Android-based tablet.…

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Quarterly Index: Virtualization Penetration in the U.S. and Europe

By Alex Williams Jul 21, 2011

Veeam Software is sponsoring an ongoing study to show how deep virtualization is spreading into the enterprise. Called the V-index, the study is being conducted by Vanson Bourne, an independent market research company. It…

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Outsourcing 3.0: 4 Trends the CIO Needs to Watch in the Cloud Computing Age

By Alex Williams Jul 21, 2011

What should a CIO be paying attention to in this time of services innovation? According to an IDC analyst, there are at least four trends to watch. These include a scaling of services; data center…

Alex Williams

VMware’s Cloud Foundry at OSCON – Platforms are Still New

Nebula – This Open Cloud Idea May Have Legs After all

The OSCON Data Conference, DevOps and the Intersection of Search and Business Intelligence

Big Data Demands Leading to Greater NoSQL Acceptance by Corporate Developers

The China Equation: Alibaba to Unveil Smartphone and Mobile OS

Here’s a First – Buy 100 Google Apps Accounts and Get a Free Tablet

Quarterly Index: Virtualization Penetration in the U.S. and Europe

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