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

EMC disrupts its traditional market with non-traditional ScaleIO | #emcworld

EMC has created a modern, software-based data infrastructure management tool that is greatly improving how data servers and associated hardware are being integrated. the company said. Boaz Palgi, VP and GM of ScaleIO at EMC, sat down to discuss ScaleIO with John Furrier (@furrier) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during ...

Network virtualization platform pushes hardware further toward irrelevancy | #VTUG

The VMware, Inc.’s NSX network virtualization platform is proving that hardware is not as critical to networking as it once was. Scott Martin, systems engineering manager of VMware’s Networking & Security Business Unit, sat down with Stu Miniman, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, at VTUG Winter Warmer 2016 in Foxborough, Massachusetts, to ...

Illuminating the international diaspora | #RMWisdom16

As countries develop and their people migrate internationally, needs often arise for those countries to be able to track their people as they disperse throughout the world. Elian Carsenat, founder of NamSor Applied Onomastics, sat down with Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, at RapidMiner Wisdom 2016 in New ...

Getting rid of ‘dirty data’: Creating a new paradigm in data analytics | #RMWisdom16

Financial institutions of all kinds have an essential need for clean, accurate data when making business predictions and decisions regarding their customers. Bob Lytle, CEO of Rel8ed, sat down with Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during RapidMiner Wisdom 2016 in New York to talk about how his company ...

How Blue Sky Systems is redefining how virtual desktops are done | #HPEDiscover

Blue Sky Systems, Ltd. has partnered with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) to revolutionize virtual desktop technology. Rob Strechay, director of software-defined storage at HPE, and Jonathan Bastin, director of Blue Sky Systems, sat down with Dave Vellante, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during HPE Discover 2015 in London to talk about the companies’ partnership. ...

Acting on data at ‘the speed of business’: HPE helps companies operationalize analytics | #HPEDiscover

Newly formed Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) is just getting started after splitting from Hewlett Packard only a few months ago. And to talk about the company’s direction and new product offerings, Jeff Veis, VP of marketing, Big Data platforms for HPE Software, sat down with John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the ...

Initial excitement around new tech doesn’t always predict success | #StructureConf

As the Structure conference enters its seventh year of production, one man has been involved with the show since the beginning. Derrick Harris of Mesosphere, Inc. sat down with George Gilbert, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Structure 2015 in San Francisco to talk about the conference’s evolution, as well as the emergence of ...

Handling the deluge of data: Enterprise solutions | #StructureConf

“Bringing zen to the deluge of data” is something most enterprises strive for. And that is exactly the tagline that Basho Technologies, Inc. uses to describe its scalable distributed systems. Adam Wray, CEO and president of Basho, spoke to George Gilbert, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Structure 2015 in San Francisco. Big ...

How SAP helped streamline modern database response time | #StructureConf

Decades ago, in-memory databases were divided into two distinct components: transactional databases and analytic databases. This was done because, in terms of response time, the analytic databases began to seriously outpace their transactional counterparts. However, because of SAP SE’s HANA database management system, analytic and transactional databases are being reunified, because HANA allows them to ...

How CoreOS took Google-style infrastructure to new heights | #StructureConf

Improving Internet security continues to be a priority for companies who want to run applications securely in any environment. And for CoreOS, Inc., its mission is to help organizations do just that. Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS Inc., a developer of Linux-based platforms and applications, spoke to George Gilbert, Wikibon’s Big Data analyst and cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE ...