Alex Williams

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

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Abstracting Data Science for the Every Day User

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Unlike my cohorts in San Francisco for the circus that is Oracle OpenWorld, I spent two days last week in sunny San Diego, talking to the folks from Teradata, a company with its roots in data analytics since its founding in 1979. …

Big Data TV – Was This Steve Jobs’ Next Breakthrough?

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Tim O’Reilly appeared on theCube earlier this year and made a remark about Apple’s killer app. He said it was the app store. Why? It’s the data that is in those apps that draws people. This network of mobile apps and services …

Gaping Void on Steve Jobs – Here’s to the Crazy Ones

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

I just received an email from Gaping Void. Every day, cartoonist Hugh MacLeod does one of his iconic drawings that often points to the humor, absurdity and reality of our lives. Today he gives tribute to Steve Jobs. Go to his site to …

Ellison and Benioff Battles Now Look Meaningless with Jobs Passing

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The dueling, the growling and the insults between Marc Benioff and Larry Ellison this week at Oracle OpenWorld stopped having any relevance late yesterday afternoon. Steve Jobs is dead. Every rivalry in the tech world now seems trivial. Benioff looked up to …

The Benioff “Unkeynote” and How the Community Trumped Larry Ellison

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

This is a historic week. During the height of Oracle OpenWorld, it’s the social Web and the revolution of mobile that has become the focus of the conversation. It’s not Larry Ellison. It’s not Exalytics or Exadata. It’s the social enterprise. That …

Oracle: We Did Not Cancel Benioff Keynote, We Just Moved it to a Broom Closet

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The joy of the circus is in seeing what next act will make you gasp, fill you with surprise and make you laugh at the spectacle of it all. Today’s act at Oracle OpenWorld? An Oracle source now says that Marc Benioff’s …

Apple.com Web Site Goes Down

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The Apple.com Web site went down today, following the keynote by new CEO Tim Cook. The site could not be reached for about 20 minutes. It went back up around 12:20. The question – what happened? Apple is not talking but it …

Hadoop, NoSQL and Big Data Job Trends

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Apple is looking for a Hadoop administrator to help “redefine” adverting on mobile devices. TripAdvisor needs a software engineer to build out its bigger than 25 terabyte database. Nokia seeks an engineer to help analyze unlimited data points. And EMC wants a software …

In Possibly His Worst Keynote Ever, Larry Ellison Unveils “Exalytics”

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Larry Ellison (in his worst keynote ever?) announced Exalytics today, an appliance for in-memory analytics. As I reported on Friday, the hardware/software integration is the next permutation of Exalogic, what Ellison last year called a cloud in a box. Ellison said Exalytics …

Oracle Adopting Open-Source R to Connect Legacy Systems

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Oracle looks like it is investing in R, the programming language of choice for statistical analysis and rich, data visualization. Oracle says it will integrate R with its Oracle Database. Other signs from Oracle show the deeper interest in using the statistical …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

Abstracting Data Science for the Every Day User

Big Data TV – Was This Steve Jobs’ Next Breakthrough?

Gaping Void on Steve Jobs – Here’s to the Crazy Ones

Ellison and Benioff Battles Now Look Meaningless with Jobs Passing

The Benioff “Unkeynote” and How the Community Trumped Larry Ellison

Oracle: We Did Not Cancel Benioff Keynote, We Just Moved it to a Broom Closet

Apple.com Web Site Goes Down

Hadoop, NoSQL and Big Data Job Trends

In Possibly His Worst Keynote Ever, Larry Ellison Unveils “Exalytics”

Oracle Adopting Open-Source R to Connect Legacy Systems

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