Marlene Den Bleyker

Marlene is a staff writer at SiliconANGLE covering live events from SiliconANGLE Media's production hub, theCUBE. Have a news tip? Tweet it to @siliconangle

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A battle between old and new for unified communications | #EC16

Taking a quick flight to Orlando, FL, theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, touched down at Enterprise Connect 2016 and hit the ground running. With no time to spare and without a production booth, John Furrier, host of theCUBE announced, “This is our foray into the Unified Communications (UC) marketplace.” Expecting an explosion According to Furrier, ...

The Open Compute Project: ‘A great place to geek out’ | #OCPSummit16

As the Open Compute Project (OCP) Networking event began today in San Jose, CA, Jeff Frick and Stu Miniman, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, conveyed the excitement surrounding the news and players that are part of the project. According to OCP, this is a collaborative community focused on redesigning hardware technology to ...

The women creating the ‘on ramp’ for new coders | #WomeninTech

As technology moves at a rapid pace, who is bringing the next generation up to speed? There is a gap of data scientists and engineers in the market today, and in order to meet the needs of tomorrow, we need to start with getting children, especially girls, interested in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math ...

IBM: Managing that data layer that keeps Runkeeper running | #IBMInterConnect

Last week at IBM InterConnect 2016 in Las Vegas, the company highlighted its new technology through customer stories. One of the most compelling stories was shared by Simon Wheatcroft, a long-distance runner, who happens to be blind. Jason Jacobs, founder and CEO of Runkeeper (FitnessKeeper, Inc.), and Wheatcroft joined John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, ...

What is the app data gap? | #DataStorage

Nimble Storage, Inc. is a predictive flash storage solutions company based in San Jose, California, founded in early 2008. And at the company’s recent exclusive event held in San Francisco, Suresh Vasudevan, CEO of Nimble Storage, spoke about the company’s history and its latest product announcement. Company vision Nimble Storage wanted to up-end the industry ...

People are the best technology asset | #EmployeeAppreciationDay

March 4 is Employee Appreciation Day, and in honor of those who keep systems running, businesses thriving and innovation moving forward, we are offering IT employees some tips and best practices that we have picked up from industry experts over the past year on theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to help make your job a little easier. ...

The women of IBM: On cognitive business and the new CIO | #WomenInTech

Last week, theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, covered IBM InterConnect 2016, and the overall theme of the event was the digitization of the enterprise. IBM led with customer presentations, displaying how the company is using all of its resources to bring next-generation technology to all. Some of IBM’s leading women joined John Furrier and ...

Cisco reveals ‘secret sauce’ for digitization | #MWC2016

Undergoing a major transformation, Cisco is looking to underlie this generation’s digitization movement. This year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) was hosted in Barcelona, Spain, from February 22 to the 25, and the event targeted mobility service providers around the world. Cisco Systems, Inc. was on hand at MWC in an effort to transform the carrier business, ...

Bluemix: The IBM ninjas | #IBMInterConnect

IBM’s Bluemix platform helps the enterprise bring all of its technology together and move it to the cloud. The busy team has been working directly with clients to harden their systems based on a curation of the customers experiences. Moe Abdula, VP of cloud architecture and solutions at IBM, joined John Furrier, of theCUBE, from the ...

IBM rocks the world’s largest music festival with Watson | #IBMInterConnect

Cognitive systems like IBM Watson are changing the way the world responds to real-time data. Whether the enterprise is seeking a new way to reach the customer or a musical festival in Roskilde, Denmark. is trying to anticipate crowd participation, IBM is reaching out to businesses and academia to help predict consumer behavior. Cheri Bergeron, leader ...