Alex Williams

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

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Strata Conference Mini Maker Faire: Robots and the Data Crush [Video]

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Robots, visualizations and wine – the combination gives it the feel of an O’Reilly Makers Faire. It was actually the Strata Conferece’s Mini Maker Faire, which featured all sorts of Arduino inspired and sensor driven treats. Services Angle Services providers will increasingly …

Strata Conference: What is Big Data?

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

I walked the convention center floor at the Strata Conference today and asked people: “What is Big Data?” It’s such a broad term. The people I interviewed certainly made that point. Services Angle I ask the question as still most people do …

Spring Hadoop Signals A Maturing Ecosystem

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

In a discussion yesterday with EMC Data Scientsit Dr. Pedro DeSouza, the conversation turned to the immaturity of the Hadoop ecosystem Today, the ecosystem grew a bit more as VMware announced Spring Hadoop here at the Strata Conference in Santa Clara. VMware …

Race to the Middle: EMC Looks to Post-PC Era With New Security Services

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The shift to smartphones and tablets makes it nearly impossible t0 secure on a per device basis. Employees may use 40 different services. How do you protect yourself in that kind of world? Wikibon’s Dave Vellante: Security is rapidly becoming a ‘do-over’ because …

A Map for the Strata Conference: Who Goes to a Data Conference About Data?

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The Guardian staff is here for the Strata conference. For the event, Editor Simon Rogers analyzed the data from the more than 2,000 developers attending to see where they came from, what they want to talk about and how much data they …

As the App Culture Builds, Dell Accelerates its Shift to Services with New Line of Servers, Flash Capabilities

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Michael Dell took the stage today at a Dell event with a focus on the demands that come with companies now reaching a maturing stage with its extensive virtualized infrastructure and the continued drive to use Web and cloud services. At the …

How Google, IBM and Yahoo Use Big Data to Predict the Oscar Winners

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The Google blog has a post about what search data say about tonight’s Academy Awards. IBM has its Oscar Senti-meter, a tool it developed with the L.A. Times and the University of Southern California Annenberg Innovation Lab. Yahoo is predicting a winner based …

Mark Hurd Calls Taleo an “Additive,” to Oracle Fusion

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Here’s the quote of the day from Oracle President Mark Hurd: Taleo is completely additive to Oracle Fusion HCM. Additive? So Taleo will improve the flavor of Oracle Fusion? Here’s another one from Hurd: Oracle is the leader in the enterprise cloud. So …

Kanban2Go: A Drag and Drop Zen-Like To Do App That Actually Works

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

I can’t get into Pinterest. It’s fun and all. But I need ways to do my work better, get my posts done and make sure I am not forgetting anything. But I want to have fun too. But how do you have …

Marten Mickos Gets a Buzz Cut and Eucalyptus Starts Hitting its Stride

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Eucalyptus Systems CEO Mårten Mickos made a bet with his engineering team. Beat the deadline for the next release and he’d let them shave his head, complete with the Eucalyptus logo. The engineering team won. And Marten got a shave with a …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

Strata Conference Mini Maker Faire: Robots and the Data Crush [Video]

Strata Conference: What is Big Data?

Spring Hadoop Signals A Maturing Ecosystem

Race to the Middle: EMC Looks to Post-PC Era With New Security Services

A Map for the Strata Conference: Who Goes to a Data Conference About Data?

As the App Culture Builds, Dell Accelerates its Shift to Services with New Line of Servers, Flash Capabilities

How Google, IBM and Yahoo Use Big Data to Predict the Oscar Winners

Mark Hurd Calls Taleo an “Additive,” to Oracle Fusion

Kanban2Go: A Drag and Drop Zen-Like To Do App That Actually Works

Marten Mickos Gets a Buzz Cut and Eucalyptus Starts Hitting its Stride

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