Alex Williams

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

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5 Themes from Hadoop World

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

It’s nearing the end of Hadoop World. Over the past few days we’ve been talking to developers, system engineers, data scientists and the entrepreneurs who are building a next generation of apps using big data. Here are five themes I heard from …

Amazon Web Services Opening its Seventh Data Center in Oregon

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is opening a new data center in Oregon, arguably one of the most popular regions in the world for the new wave of data center development. The AWS data center is located in Boardman, along the Columbia River. …

Tableau Brings Data Visualization to Hadoop

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Through a partnership with Cloudera, Tableau Software has built a Hadoop connector for doing big data visualization. The new connector uses Hive to collect data across distributed nodes. That data is then pulled into Tableau for visualization. Tableau’s data engine processes the …

SAP Opens a Mobile App Store – the CIO Friendly Variety

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

SAP is building out an app store. The apps are available to be viewed as demos. Customers then purchase the apps through SAP internal sales or SAP partners. The development is being driven by SAP and its partners, powered by Sybase Unwired …

A Major Reason for Accel Partners’ $100 Million Fund: Big Data Apps are the Future of Hadoop

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

This morning at Hadoop World, Accel Partner’s Ping Li talked about the need for a new generation of apps while talking about the news of his firm’s new $100 million fund. On theCube today, Li and Cloudera CEO Mike Olson talked about …

5 Reasons Why Accel Partners Announced a $100 Million Big Data Fund

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Accel Partners has announced a $100 million big data fund. The news is here, here, here and here. There are several reasons why the fund makes sense now. Here are five: Consumerization. Accel Partners portfolio companies include companies such as Facebook and …

Rackspace Launches OpenStack Private Cloud

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Rackspace is making its first steps toward a support-centric model with its new OpenStack based private cloud. The new service is built on a Rackspace developed reference architecture that uses OpenStack “Diablo” software release as its project code. Its next update will …

Hooke Em’ Horns – University of Texas Gives Out Free Google Apps GMail Addresses for Life

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

In the Longhorn state, you take care of things in a big way. That is certainly true for the University of Texas, which is giving out free email for life to 450,000 University of Texas (UT) alumni and the 50,000 student body. Named …

5 Distinct Hadoop Deployment Patterns

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

In an e-mail interview this week with Forrester Senior Analyst James Kobielus, I asked about Hadoop’s real-time capabilities. The conversation turned to what he sees as five distinct Hadoop deployment patterns. It’s a good primer for Hadoop World next week where SiliconAngle …

Will Citrix Buy EnStratus?

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Now, I can’t let Ben Kepes and Krishnan Subramanian have all the fun. These two well-respected bloggers and #Clouderati members are both saying that EnStratus is looking like a Citrix acquisition target. It appears that EnStratus (now Enstratus Networks LLC) is getting …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

5 Themes from Hadoop World

Amazon Web Services Opening its Seventh Data Center in Oregon

Tableau Brings Data Visualization to Hadoop

SAP Opens a Mobile App Store – the CIO Friendly Variety

A Major Reason for Accel Partners’ $100 Million Fund: Big Data Apps are the Future of Hadoop

5 Reasons Why Accel Partners Announced a $100 Million Big Data Fund

Rackspace Launches OpenStack Private Cloud

Hooke Em’ Horns – University of Texas Gives Out Free Google Apps GMail Addresses for Life

5 Distinct Hadoop Deployment Patterns

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