Kristina Farrah

A ninja, a tech enthusiast and a lover of sparkly things. Writing in the tech space has become an important part of my role as an observer and historian. As passionate as I am in what I do, I look forward to telling stories of how technological advancement broke out to unprecedented levels, and that I was right there in the middle of it –watching the world change before my very eyes.

Latest from Kristina Farrah

Not Just Lipstick on a Pig. IBM’s Billion-Dollar Flash Initiative Puts Innovation Back on Track

As an introduction to Steve Mills’ interview at FlashCUBE, John Furrier shared his thoughts on IBM’s move on investing a billion dollars in flash. This is the third time the company invested an amount by the billions in a particular space; first with open source, and next with analytics.

How Does Flash Catch the Bad Guys? Faster, Bigger Data Processing, says ViON

At IBM Flash 2013, SiliconAngle’s theCube interviews Bob Bruce of ViON, a company that specializes in designing, delivering and maintaining storage and server solutions to enterprise-wide data centers throughout the federal government and public sector & commercial marketplaces.

Flash Draws Server and Storage Together, says IBM CTO

Today at IBM Flash 2013, theCube sat with Brad McCredie, CTO of IBM’s Server and Server Technology Division. They were tackling end-to-end software and storage coming together. McCredie heralds how flash has eliminated the impediments in integrating server with storage. After all, that’s what IBM Flash 2013 is all about.

Overpriced, WhatsApp Goes to Google? Here’s 4 Alternatives

A recent report from Digital Trends claims that Google is in talks to acquire Whatsapp, and the parties have been communicating for 4 or 5 weeks now. The source that Digital Trends has been speaking to said WhatsApp has been "playing hardball” and managed to up the acquisition price to nearly $1 billion.

The PC Ain’t Dead Yet : A Rebuttal to Weiss’ Blog

SiliconAngle’s founding Editor Mark ‘rizzn’ Hopkins sat for an interview with theCube about his thoughts on Weiss’s recent blog post called “The Building is the New Server.” In a nutshell, Weiss’ polemical critique speaks of the death of PC and how an entire ecosystem dies with it.

What To Do Next Time Google Drive is Down [Again]

I was just talking to one of our editors here at SiliconAngle about website downtime when Google Drive started to act up. I have a whole lot of files there and I need to be able to access them, today.  Good thing Google Drive came back after mabout 10 minutes. But what if it didn’t? ...

Fusion-io Acquires ID7 : Delves Deeper into Software-Defined Storage

Fusion-io, a data storage devices company and pioneer of server flash storage, announced that they bought ID7, a storage technology company based in the UK. ID7 creates storage software solutions across all types of interfaces including as iSCSI, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand, and its engineers are known largely as contributor to SCST, a Linux storage ...

Biggest MWC Handset Launches So Far: Galaxy Note 8 + More

The coolest smartphone party of the year kicked off in Barcelona two days ago and unveiled some of the most exciting mobile devices to come out this year. Here are the top devices that will rock your world in in 2013.

HP Chromebook: Sleeker, Bigger, and — Worse Off

HP follows the footprints of Acer, Lenovo, and Samsung as it releases its own version of Chromebook, most notable for the 14-inch screen which is by far largest for laptops that run Chrome OS. Dubbed as HP Pavilion 14, it features 1.1GHz Intel Celeron processor, and has 2GB of RAM and integrated graphics. It also ...

Super Bowl Fans Prefer Veggies Over Pizza + Other Snazzy Stats

The Super Bowl season is in the air and NFL fans are throwing their bets on their favorite teams. This championship game has gone a long way since Super Bowl I in 1967 as part of the merger agreement between NFL and the American Football League (AFL).