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

How Red Hat is bringing open source to the enterprise | #RHSummit

Seeing its highest Q1 growth rates in three years, Red Hat, Inc. is a powerhouse among the largest open-source software companies in the world. With resources and abilities of this magnitude, it is no small wonder that Red Hat is the keystone company in the push to bring the open source and enterprise communities together. As ...

How one company is solving storage virtualization problems with an old technology | #DockerCon

Storage virtualization is a tricky business, and it is not without its inherent problems. However, containerized storage is showing great promise in reducing or eliminating many of the problems encountered today. Premal Buch, CEO of Robin Systems, Inc., and Partha Seetala, CTO of Robin Systems, sat down with John Furrier (@furrier) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media ...

How Slack is breathing new life into an old concept | #NEXTConf

Since shifting focus from its unlikely beginnings as a video game company, Slack is fast becoming an industry leader in professional chat-based communication tools. Keith Adams, chief architect at Slack Technologies, Inc., joined Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the Nutanix .NEXT Conference 2016 event in Las Vegas to talk about his ...

The Nutanix vision: A seamless enterprise solution | #NEXTConf

Since its hypervisor release year ago, Nutanix, Inc. has moved further along the path toward implementing its all-encompassing enterprise platform solution. As such, it is not wasting any time in developing its vision of how it will compete in the marketplace. Binny Gill, chief architect at Nutanix, and Sunil Potti, chief product and development officer at Nutanix, sat down with ...

How HPE is innovating customer solutions | #HPEdiscover

Custom IT solutions are critical to success in today’s market, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s (HPE) commitment to providing wall-to-wall solutions for customers in all sectors and verticals is ongoing. K.C. Choi, VP of Global Solutions Architecture, Sales, Technical and Partner Enablement at HP, sat down with Dave Vellante (@dvellante), host of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, ...

Containers move to Enterprise: A new direction for an old technology | #HPEdiscover

Container technology has been around for a very long time.  Recently, there has been a resurgence in interest in them, thanks to Docker, Inc. and how they can be used to innovate within the cloud. Vish Mulchand, senior director of Product Management and Marketing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE), and Mohit Bhatnagar, VP of Products at ...

How HPE has reinvented Moonshot | #HPEdiscover

Since Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) introduced its Moonshot server, a number of changes have been introduced to make the system much better and more efficient. To discuss Moonshot improvements and where the server system is going, Dr. Tom Bradicich, VP and GM of Servers, IoT Systems, at HPE, and Jason Willis, Citrix Systems, Inc. architect at McKesson ...

HPE looks to lead in composable infrastructure | #HPEdiscover

As customer infrastructure needs vary, they require computing tools that can support these needs in a simple and efficient manner. HPE’s composable infrastructure systems are designed to meet these ever-changing infrastructure requirements all in one flexible package. Paul Miller, VP of Marketing, Converged Data Center Infrastructure, at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., and Manoj Nair, VP of ...

The HPE vision for AI: Bringing it to everyone | HPEdiscover

There has been much talk about AI, also known as “artificial intelligence” or “augmented intelligence” in the industry recently. Where does it stand, who is using it and how will it be implemented in the marketplace in the future? Robert Youngjohns, EVP and GM of HP Software at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE), sat down ...

How one company uses storage solutions to enhance customer efficiency | #HPEdiscover

With more than 1,000 customers, Opus Interactive, Inc. wanted a controller-bound storage platform that was flexible enough to meet the needs of so many users. For this, they chose HPE Converged Infrastructure because it met their needs of a software-managed, scalable, quickly implementable solution with the goal of significantly reducing operating costs while increasing efficiency. Milan Shetti, VP ...