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.

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How the Cloud disrupted Oracle’s ideas on storage | #datacenter

The Oracle Cloud Platform Launch Event was the place to be to hear new announcements about Oracle’s work on integrating the three layers of the stack: hardware, software and applications. To help shed some light on these announcements, Prashant Ketkar, VP of product management – Infrastructure Group for Oracle Cloud, joined John Furrier and Dave Vellante ...

HP creates a home for software-defined networking | #HPDiscover

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has become a popular technology that is powering future innovation. To talk about these advances, Jeff Frick and Dave Vellante of theCUBE joined Michael Zhu at HP Discover 2015. Zhu is the senior director of Global Solutions and Alliances with HP. The discussion started off with a look at HP’s SDN app ...

HP, Aruba, and the growing wireless revolution | #HPDiscover

Wireless communication represents an amazing growth center in the technology industry. To help shed some light on this revolution, Dave Vellante of theCUBE joined Keerti Mellkote and Dominic Wilde at the HP Discover convention. Melkote is the founder and CTO of Aruba Networks, while Wilde is the VP of Product Management and Marketing at HP. ...

EMC looks into big business with OpenStack | #openstack

During OpenStack Summit 2015, Brian Gallagher, president of Cloud Management with EMC Corp., sat down with Stu Miniman and John Furrier of theCube to talk about EMC and OpenStack. Things started off with a look at the shift toward open source software and other emerging trends. “This is in response to the shift that’s occurring ...

Big players collaborate in the OpenStack community | #openstack

The OpenStack Summit continues to grow and evolve, according to Monty Taylor, a technologist with HP Cloud. Taylor joined John Furrier of theCUBE at OpenStack Summit 2015 to talk about the growing OpenStack community. According to Taylor, more people were attending the Summit, and the makeup of the attendees had shifted toward users and deployers. People ...

OpenStack is maturing with the community | #openstack

Radhesh Balakrishnan and Mike Cohen came to the table with Stu Miniman at OpenStack Summit 2015 to talk about the current state of OpenStack. Balakrishnan is the OpenStack general manager with Red Hat,Inc., and Mike Cohen is the director of Product Management at Cisco Systems, Inc. The conversation started with a look into the state ...

The OpenStack journey at Brocade | #openstack

At the recent OpenStack Summit 2015, Ken Ross, director of Project Management at Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., sat down with Stu Miniman of theCUBE to talk about how OpenStack fits into Brocade’s business. “A lot of people think of Brocade as a fiber channel business,” Ross said, giving an overview of his company. He explained ...

Bringing OpenStack to production Clouds | #openstack

Talk about OpenStack’s level of maturity continued to dominate at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. Mark Collier, chief operating officer of the OpenStack Foundation, and Lauren Sell, OpenStack Foundation vice president, joined theCUBE’s Stu Miniman at OpenStack Summit 2015 to talk about OpenStack and its growing community of users. The conversation started with the issue of ...

Pieces in place for OpenStack success| #openstack

On the ground at the OpenStack Summit, theCUBE hosts Stu Miniman and John Furrier offered key insights that revolved around the evolution of open technology and future opportunities and expectations. The first issue discussed was the maturity of the OpenStack technology. Both agreed that OpenStack wasn’t quite ready, but the pieces were in place. The ...

The new power of customer data and engagement | #infa15

At Informatica World 2015, Marge Breya, EVP and CMO of Worldwide Marketing and Education at Informatica Corp., sat down with John Furrier and Jeff Frick of theCUBE. The discussion started on the subject of the event itself. Breya noted that Informatica World had grown, and now they hosted more than 2,500 people with around 5,000 hands-on ...