Tim Hawkins

With 29 years in the engineering world, Tim Hawkins is currently a liveblogger for SiliconANGLE.com. Tim spent 12 years in the defense industry, with tenures at the US Army Corps of Engineers and Northrop Grumman, before shifting focus to the manufacturing sector. Tim served as a product engineer for Abbott Labs, manufacturing engineer for ANS Medical, and as a test engineer for Flextronics, helping those companies to manufacture better products in a more productive and safe way.

Tim enjoys hardcore gaming, excessive reading, getting lost on the dark corners of the Internet and being a general introvert.

Latest from Tim Hawkins

The growing necessity of adopting deep analytics | #BigDataNYC

NEWS By TIM HAWKINS10 YEARS AGO

As customers become more Big Data savvy, conversations around it are becoming less of a “techie” topic and more of a business topic. Customers are beginning to realize that Big Data and deep analytics is not some sort of new toy or …

Hadoop, Big Data ecosystem shifting, analysts say | #BigDataNYC

NEWS By TIM HAWKINS10 YEARS AGO

Hadoop has always been seen the “poster child” for Big Data, and indeed the vast majority of Big Data customers use it in at least some variation. But, recently, there have been some changes within the Hadoop ecosystem, as well as some …

Entertainment company uses Big Data to enhance marketing | #BigDataNYC

NEWS By TIM HAWKINS10 YEARS AGO

As the playing field for cable and broadcast media evolves, companies that deliver the content available through them have been forced to adapt. Not only is the medium that is used to offer that content itself changing, but so are the ways in …

Deep analytics: Machine learning new trend in Big Data, say analysts | #BigDataNYC

NEWS By TIM HAWKINS10 YEARS AGO

As the BigDataNYC 2016 event kicked off at the Mercantile Annex in New York, NY, Dave Vellante (@dvellante), Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), Peter Burris (@plburris) and George Gilbert (@ggilbert41), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, sat down to discuss what could be …

The synergy of VMware and hyper-converged platforms | #VMworld

NEWS By TIM HAWKINS10 YEARS AGO

The ability to easily create virtualized resources is a fast-growing customer market. And Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) is partnering with VMware, Inc. on its hyper-converged platforms in order to quickly create state-of-the-art composable infrastructure. Cullen Ruegemer, senior director of Product Management at HPE, sat …

HPE embraces machine learning, key alliances | #SeizeTheData

NEWS By TIM HAWKINS10 YEARS AGO

The HPE Big Data Conference day two keynote opened with Jeff Veis, VP, HP Big Data Platform Solutions, HP Software, noting that some big announcements would be made during the presentation. Veis quickly moved on to introducing Robert Youngjohns, EVP and GM, Software at Hewlett Packard …

Art meets Big Data: How DreamWorks is utilizing analytics in modern animation | #SeizeTheData

NEWS By TIM HAWKINS10 YEARS AGO

Over the years, animation has gone from traditional, 2D, hand-drawn artwork to software-designed, 3D projects utilizing full-scale computer rendering. DreamWorks Animation is at the top of the pack in this arena, and it is using Big Data analytics to help it produce the animation the …

How one sports retailer improved backup and recovery efficiency | #VMworld

NEWS By TIM HAWKINS10 YEARS AGO

PGA TOUR Superstore already has several high-tech customer tools and applications, but now it is also planning a major e-commerce expansion. Their IT partner, CompliancePoint, Inc., has been helping them accomplish all of this through enterprise using VMware and HPE storage solutions. Michael …

How one company is bringing Storage-as-a-Service to enterprise | #VMworld

NEWS By TIM HAWKINS10 YEARS AGO

Many of the VMware, Inc. customers present at this year’s conference are using a fairly new offering in enterprise storage: Storage-as-a-Service. VMware itself has been attempting to get its own version of this type of service off the ground, but for now it is …

How one institution adopted converged infrastructure to better serve an entire medical community | #theCUBE

NEWS By TIM HAWKINS10 YEARS AGO

A few years ago, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (WFBMC) faced a problem fairly typical of older, very large healthcare organizations: modernization of aging IT infrastructure. As a large research institute and teaching hospital incorporating 125 medical facilities, 11,000 employees and nearly 1,000 physicians, it was especially …

Tim Hawkins

Latest from Tim Hawkins

The growing necessity of adopting deep analytics | #BigDataNYC

Hadoop, Big Data ecosystem shifting, analysts say | #BigDataNYC

Entertainment company uses Big Data to enhance marketing | #BigDataNYC

Deep analytics: Machine learning new trend in Big Data, say analysts | #BigDataNYC

The synergy of VMware and hyper-converged platforms | #VMworld

HPE embraces machine learning, key alliances | #SeizeTheData

Art meets Big Data: How DreamWorks is utilizing analytics in modern animation | #SeizeTheData

How one sports retailer improved backup and recovery efficiency | #VMworld

How one company is bringing Storage-as-a-Service to enterprise | #VMworld

How one institution adopted converged infrastructure to better serve an entire medical community | #theCUBE

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