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

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One of Us Just Joined SAP

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

One of us just joined SAP. That’s the first thing I thought of this morning when I heard the news that Sameer Patel has joined SAP as Global Vice President for the Social Software Business group. Sameer is  consultant. But just as important, …

What Are the Big Themes This Year at SXSW?

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Earlier I posted about SXSW and the change over the past six years. Yesterday, I asked  several people what big themes they see coming out of this year’s conference. The ambient apps came the closest to anything in terms of buzz. But …

What Apps Are You Using at SXSW?

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS14 YEARS AGO

Over the next few days I will do a “Question of the Day,” here at SXSW. Today: What Apps Are You Using at SXSW?” The responses today may surprise you. Services Angle What company does not have an app these days? Every …

United Airlines Goes From the Web to DOS

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

This past week, United  and Continental Airlines made a last transition to becoming one airline. For its reservation system, the combined companies dropped the United Web-based interface for a command line interface that runs on Microsoft DOS. And the outcome is what …

IDC Pegs Big Data Market at $16.9 Billion By 2015

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

In a report now available, IDC sees the big data and services market growing to $16.9 billion by 2o15. That’s up from $3.2 billion in 2010, a 39% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). IDC does not provide its reports to journalists for …

Intel Cuts Latency By Baking I/O Into New Xeon Processors

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Intel released the latest in its Xeon family of processors today that boasts increased performance of up to 80%, new vector extensions for compute intensive applications and the first integrated I/O actually baked into the processor itself. This is Intel’s new micro …

Why “Science” is an Important Word in the World of Big Data

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Some observations from conference organizers Alistair Croll and Ed Brill on theCube last week at the Strata Conference: Once users start using Hadoop, it is often the unexpected things that create value and it’s why the word “scientist,” is important. Using today’s big …

Big Data Visualization: Very Cool But Still Very Complex

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The data visualization blog Beautiful Data has some great stuff this week from the Strata Conference. The most recent post by Benedikt Koehler features a network map of the tweets from the first day at Strata with the hashtag #strataconf. You can see on …

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