Klint Finley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Oracle Continues Its War on Downtime with GoAhead Acquisition

By Klint Finley Sep 22, 2011

Oracle continued its acquisition spree today with the purchase of service availability software vendor GoAhead. GoAhead offers a commercial distribution of OpenWAF, a Service Availability Forum compliant middleware stack for assuring carrier-grade availability for…

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Twitter’s Open Source Storm Finally Hits

By Klint Finley Sep 20, 2011

As promised,Twitter open sourced its big data streaming solution Storm (part of its acquisition of BackType) at the Strange Loop conference in St. Louis this week. BackType has been promising Storm for some time…

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Podio for iPhone Adds Support for Custom Apps

By Klint Finley Sep 20, 2011

Podio is a Danish company that provides an enterprise social networking and collaboration tool that also includes a platform for building simple custom apps through a point and click interface. Today the company will…

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ScaleMP Takes Its Virtual HPC Solution to the Next Level with AMD Support

By Klint Finley Sep 19, 2011

ScaleMP will today announce a partnership with AMD. Previously ScaleMP has supported only Intel based architectures, but ScaleMP’s virtualization solution will soon run on AMD architecture. The new version of the software will be…

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Survey: Web Developers and Other Tech Workers are Miserable

By Klint Finley Sep 18, 2011

Director of IT took the top spot as the most miserable of jobs, with senior Web developer and technical support analyst also making the top ten, according to a series of articles by Steve…

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Is Apple Shopping for a Cloud Synchronization Provider?

By Klint Finley Sep 17, 2011

We noted yesterday that Box rejected an acquisition offer significantly higher than its $550 million valuation. The company making the offer hasn’t been named, but just last week Chip Hazard reported that Dropbox rejected…

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Heroku Announces New Facebook Integration, Partial Support for PHP and Python

By Klint Finley Sep 15, 2011

Facebook is integrating Heroku’s platform-as-a-service into its app building platform the two companies announced today. Facebook app developers will be able to deploy an application from a template to Heroku in only a few…

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Google Plus Public API: What It Can and Can’t Do

By Klint Finley Sep 15, 2011

This morning Google announced via the Google Plus Platform Blog that the Google Plus API is now available to developers. You can find more information on the Google Plus Platform site. The initial API…

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Google Dart Details Leaked: New Programming Language Seeks to Replace JavaScript

By Klint Finley Sep 15, 2011

More details have emerged about Google’s forthcoming programming language Dart. Last week we reported that Dart will be officially announced at the GOTO conference in October. A leaked internal Google e-mail has surfaced which…

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Rethinking Skill Certifications: Mozilla’s Open Badges Project

By Klint Finley Sep 14, 2011

Evaluating tech workers’ qualifications is a persistent issue when hiring consultants, contractors and employees. Established certification programs, such as those from Microsoft and Oracle, are big, broad certifications covering major general use technologies. But…

Klint Finley

Oracle Continues Its War on Downtime with GoAhead Acquisition

Twitter’s Open Source Storm Finally Hits

ScaleMP Takes Its Virtual HPC Solution to the Next Level with AMD Support

Survey: Web Developers and Other Tech Workers are Miserable

Heroku Announces New Facebook Integration, Partial Support for PHP and Python

Google Dart Details Leaked: New Programming Language Seeks to Replace JavaScript

Rethinking Skill Certifications: Mozilla’s Open Badges Project

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