Alex Williams

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

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How the Moneyball Story Relates to Entrenched Enterprise Thinking

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Is enterprise thinking entrenched in the past? And how does that relate to the Moneyball story? It seem we can all relate to the Moneyball scenes (I have not seen the film, only the previews that were shown here at the IBM …

IBM Names Virginia Rometty as CEO to Replace Sam Palmisano

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The next era for IBM will be in the hands of Virginia Rometty, who was named CEO today to replace Sam Palmisano, who will step down effective January 1 but remain as chairman of the company. Rometty is now a senior vice …

GitHub Open Sources a Chat Bot That Can Share with Other Robots

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

GitHub is open-sourcing Hubot, a chat bot it developed internally to deploy the site, automate a lot of tasks and be a source of fun for the company. Hubot grew and eventually became a force at GitHub. But it was also messy …

Managing Apps in the Hybrid Cloud

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Companies that adopts cloud computing do not pick one vendor. In most cases, they will have a number of different applications that run on any number of cloud computing providers. They will use a cloud service where the apps run exclusively in …

IBM Watson Moves Beyond Jeopardy to the Doctor’s Office

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

IBM Watson now has its own group dedicated to moving Watson beyond the game show world and into the commercial markets. “We want to correct the notion that it is a question and answer technology,” said Manoj Saxena, general manager of Watson …

IBM Moves a Step Closer to Competing in Hadoop Arena with Amazon Web Services

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

IBM has built a new version of its InfoSphere Big Insights for its smart cloud infrastructure that uses Hadoop as its base to analyze structured and unstructured data. It’s significant in that it does put IBM a step closer to competing in …

A Benioff Reminder: Occupy George – Infographic Graffiti for a Dollar Bill

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

At various keynotes, on Twitter and in interviews, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has talked about Occupy Wall Street and its connection to a new kind of organization that mixes cloud computing, social technologies and mobile. He makes the connection to further show …

The Megatrend of Our Time is the Internet of Things and Connected Devices

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

I am looking at Mary Meeker’s slides from her presentation yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit. Several of my fellow tech bloggers and journos have run through the slides. You can see what they say, here, here, here and here. Mary Meeker …

On Google Plus, Google Apps President David Girouard Questioned About Identity

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

It’s awesome that Google is pushing Google Plus early to Google Apps. It’s another sign that the way we communicate every day online is achievable in business, too. Wow. What a revelation. But there is a little problem that surfaced again today. It’s …

Q&A With Pat Hanrahan, Tableau Co-Founder and Data Visualization Pioneer [Part 2]

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

In part two of our Q&A with Tableau Co-Founder Pat Hanrahan, we discuss the lack of capabilities in most data visualization technologies; the different ways to judge data visualization and the technology developments underway to visualize unstructured data. Here’s an excerpt from …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

How the Moneyball Story Relates to Entrenched Enterprise Thinking

IBM Names Virginia Rometty as CEO to Replace Sam Palmisano

GitHub Open Sources a Chat Bot That Can Share with Other Robots

Managing Apps in the Hybrid Cloud

IBM Watson Moves Beyond Jeopardy to the Doctor’s Office

IBM Moves a Step Closer to Competing in Hadoop Arena with Amazon Web Services

A Benioff Reminder: Occupy George – Infographic Graffiti for a Dollar Bill

The Megatrend of Our Time is the Internet of Things and Connected Devices

On Google Plus, Google Apps President David Girouard Questioned About Identity

Q&A With Pat Hanrahan, Tableau Co-Founder and Data Visualization Pioneer [Part 2]

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