Kristen Nicole

Named by Forbes as a top influencer in Big Data, Kristen Nicole is currently a Senior Editor at SiliconANGLE.com. She got her start with 606tech, a Chicago blog she dedicated to the social media space, going on to become the lead writer and Field Editor at Mashable. Kristen Nicole has also contributed to other publications, from TIME Techland to Forbes. Her work has been syndicated across a number of media outlets, including The New York Times, and MSNBC. Kristen Nicole published her first book, The Twitter Survival Guide, and is currently completing her second book on predictive analytics.

Latest from Kristen Nicole

AI can unlock human potential in workforce, says Infor CEO

It’s a season of opportunity for Infor Inc. The software maker specializing in enterprise resource planning is flush with funding and acquisitions, but most importantly human potential. That’s the theme of Infor’s trade show this year, as chief executive officer Charles Phillips (pictured) begins to unveil the fruits of Infor’s labor in the fields of artificial intelligence ...

BuildGroup raises $330M to cure short-termism for tech startups

To profit or to thrive? There’s a difference in these two measures of entrepreneurial success, and BuildGroup Management LLC is putting millions into the latter. Announcing a $330 million funding round, holding company BuildGroup is seeding its long-term mission to nurture enterprise software startups with staying power. With a 20-year outlook on its investments, BuildGroup ...

Prepping for the bubble burst, Pure Storage upgrades with AI tech, key partners at Accelerate 2018

With unicorn status, all-flash storage array maker Pure Storage Inc. has quite a reputation to maintain since launching its initial public offering in 2015. In a market where it’s increasingly difficult for a company to operate as a completely independent storage company, what’s the benefit of remaining independent in the age of hyperconvergence? And what will ...

Balancing act: Informatica straddles on-prem needs with cloud data at Informatica World 2018

Now that the data warehousing craze has converted to public cloud mania, how is data integrator Informatica LLC innovating its business model to survive the changing tides? Looking to answer these and other questions, SiliconANGLE is at Informatica World, currently underway in Las Vegas, Nevada. Watch live for exclusive commentary and interviews from our roving news ...

The dawn of micro-data centers will aid edge computing, says Lenovo exec

When Kim Stevenson (pictured) joined Lenovo Group Ltd last year, the technology company known mostly for smartphone manufacturing was considered an underdog in the world of data centers for enterprise computing, and that’s exactly what attracted her to the gig. Now the senior vice president and general manager of the Data Center Solutions Division at ...

Applying old world smarts to new world tech, Red Hat thrives in cloud modernity

Having earned the faith of analysts and investors, Red Hat Inc.’s traction in cloud services makes it unique amongst open-source platform providers. A company that’s spanned the rise of groundbreaking open-source initiatives, from Linux to Kubernetes, Red Hat’s long been positioning itself for this moment of success. Now that the enterprise is adopting cloud computing ...

John Donahoe reflects on first year as ServiceNow CEO

As the new CEO of ServiceNow Inc., John Donahoe (pictured) is tasked with moving the company through a new growth phase. The software platform provider has dominated in help desk solutions for the information technology sector, now setting sights on other departments within the enterprise. From human resources to marketing, ServiceNow wants to enable digital transformations across ...

ServiceNow bets on AI, defies market limitations at Knowledge 2018

When experts thought it couldn’t be done, ServiceNow Inc. dominated as an information technology help desk platform to blow through market limitations to take on additional lines of business. As ServiceNow strives to hit the $5-billion valuation mark, can this enterprise software powerhouse take on its new competitors across its newly targeted markets and maintain ...
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Google’s Kelsey Hightower: Kubernetes needs startups to thrive

Can the rising tide in open-source computing lift all the boats in the business? Kelsey Hightower (pictured), co-chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and advocate for the Google Cloud Platform, thinks so. Hightower’s tolerant view on collaboration may have surprised even the most open-minded attendees of this week’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU conference last week, ...
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As more applications get ‘cloudified,’ Kubernetes is key

As the largest project at the Linux Foundation, Kubernetes has seen marked growth in the past year. The open-source platform for managing container orchestration is piquing interest for software developers worldwide, enabling workload portability and supporting the new trend toward microservices in the fast-paced world of cloud computing. “Outside of Silicon Valley, most have heard ...