Nelson Williams

Nelson is a beat writer for SiliconANGLE's premier video production team theCUBE. He covers theCUBE events worldwide, spanning expert commentary on the hottest trends in IT.

Latest from Nelson Williams

Facebook’s role in getting businesses to open up their technology | #OCPSummit16

NEWS By NELSON WILLIAMS10 YEARS AGO

The Open Compute Project is an initiative started by Facebook to open up computer hardware, especially server and networking systems, to companies that aren’t giant tech vendors. This effort was meant to mirror the open-source movement in the software world. Since then, …

Building next gen networking with the Open Compute Project | #OCPSummit16

NEWS By NELSON WILLIAMS10 YEARS AGO

The world of computer networking is changing. What used to be the territory of massive vendors has broken up with smaller players staking their claim to new ground. The Open Compute Project (OCP) supports these innovators with open-source software and now, hardware. …

The iPhone experience of networking: How OCP helps companies innovate | #OCPSummit16

NEWS By NELSON WILLIAMS10 YEARS AGO

Networking hardware represents the bones of the Internet, a necessary support with everything else built around it. Traditionally, this hardware has been big, expensive, and available from only a few massive vendors. That’s changing. The Open Compute Project has worked to make hardware …

We live in a world where Facebook is open sourcing hardware for AI | #OCPSummit16

NEWS By NELSON WILLIAMS10 YEARS AGO

There comes a point where normal computing just isn’t good enough. Be it facial recognition, tracking a person’s habits, answering questions concerning thousands of documents, or understanding common language commands, eventually a business will need the power of artificial intelligence. These Artificial …

The evolution of open source and the data center | #OCPSummit16

NEWS By NELSON WILLIAMS10 YEARS AGO

Society today runs on information, and the tech world is no small part of this data revolution. However, it’s easy to forget that these programs and online services people use every day all run on black boxes, blinking away in a room …

Adapting business to the new realities of unified communications | #EC16

NEWS By NELSON WILLIAMS10 YEARS AGO

The modern tech world is defined by a whirlwind of new communication technologies, from text messaging to video conferences, voice on demand and more. Workers use these technologies in their daily lives and expect them in the workplace. Combining the torrent of …

‘Winning’ with unified communications in the mobile age | #EC16

NEWS By NELSON WILLIAMS10 YEARS AGO

In the tech business, Unified Communications (UC) is the integration of real-time communication services like text chat, voice, mobility features, video conferencing and the web with static services, such as voice mail and fax. Essentially, it brings together all the ways businesses …

Transforming business collaboration with unified communications | #EC16

NEWS By NELSON WILLIAMS10 YEARS AGO

Customers don’t want to visit a store; they don’t want to make a phone call. These days, customers want to push a button on some digital device to buy a product, and the company that can make that happen will get their …

Aiming for the future of work while creating a bridge to the past | #EC16

NEWS By NELSON WILLIAMS10 YEARS AGO

Business has changed. The old way to run a company involved getting all your technology under one roof with the people and the hardware to drive it all. Now, cloud services and Internet business apps allow companies to build an infrastructure completely …

A view of the Big Data revolution from outside the tech world | #DataStorage

NEWS By NELSON WILLIAMS11 YEARS AGO

Tech business is built on the power of data, but not every company is in the tech business. Most just use tech and networking to run the infrastructure that handles whatever they really do for a living. That said, even non-tech companies …

Nelson Williams

Latest from Nelson Williams

Facebook’s role in getting businesses to open up their technology | #OCPSummit16

Building next gen networking with the Open Compute Project | #OCPSummit16

The iPhone experience of networking: How OCP helps companies innovate | #OCPSummit16

We live in a world where Facebook is open sourcing hardware for AI | #OCPSummit16

The evolution of open source and the data center | #OCPSummit16

Adapting business to the new realities of unified communications | #EC16

‘Winning’ with unified communications in the mobile age | #EC16

Transforming business collaboration with unified communications | #EC16

Aiming for the future of work while creating a bridge to the past | #EC16

A view of the Big Data revolution from outside the tech world | #DataStorage

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