R. Danes

R. Danes is a senior writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, who is based on the East Coast. Her fondness for old media and longform journalism converges with an interest in new media and digital content trends. Exploring digital disruption in the realm of publications, articles and writing led her to writing articles about digital disruption everywhere. Find R. Danes on Twitter @DanesRd. Got a news tip? Please tweet us @siliconangle.

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5 insights you might have missed from Couchbase ConnectONLINE

Data is at the center of modern applications, placing new demands on database technology. But building distributed databases to complement distributed applications has proven difficult. SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio theCUBE went deep with experts during the recent Couchbase ConnectONLINE event, exploring tough questions around the topics of SQL vs. NoSQL, to move or not to ...

How IBM’s building in sustainability from seafood to scaffolding

Technology companies with millions or billions in profits might donate to environmental sustainability programs or funds. If they’re keen to be doers, not just donors, they might also develop technology that changes real-world processes to negate adverse environmental impacts. The latter is the most forward-looking type of tech-for-good initiative in the area of sustainability, according ...
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AI in 35 days: the pandemic’s answer to excuse makers

Before COVID-19, the majority of companies weren’t turning their data into gold with artificial intelligence. Today, most still have advanced AI in their imaginations more often than their information technology departments. But some did hit a few of their AI targets in one short year, and they have lessons for the more sluggish among us. ...
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IBM takes place as big R&D player on democratized hybrid platform

Red Hat Inc. built its brand by trudging knee-deep through open-source communities so its enterprise customers didn’t have to. Now, as part of IBM, will Red Hat’s R&D and product strategies change?  Far from secluding itself in an IBM-only space, Red Hat is still deeply and broadly involved in open source. It’s also enlisting its ...

How does hardware as-a-service work? Dell explains its APEX offering

The pandemic drove cloud and as-a-service consumption models into countless companies. The need for on-the-fly flexibility continues as uncertainty about the future hangs over many. So is it the end for on-premises hardware? Actually, plenty of companies plan to stay on the hybrid track they had mapped out before COVID-19. Can providers take the parts ...

Dell: The edge is the next infrastructure battleground

There’s more to hybrid information technology than cloud and on-premises data centers. The edge is exploding; and now, “near-cloud” is wending its way into the picture. This is giving infrastructure companies, like Dell Technologies Inc., new ideas about how to develop, sell and service hardware outside of the old on-prem model.  Dell might be synonymous ...

Red Hat goes to school to crack open source’s operations problem

Open-source software has already penetrated the enterprise. Now it’s time for it to go to school. Why add academia to the mix of end users, developers and vendors working away on projects? It will add research muscle to solving the problems of real-world, at-scale use of open-source technology, particularly large, distributed cloud-based systems. Overall, the ...
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CEO Paul Cormier explains Red Hat’s open-source hybrid innovation and research initiatives

When applications lead, they ask a lot of supporting technology and the people managing it. They come in all shapes and sizes; what’s good for the interactive mobile app might not be good for the multifactor-authentication page. That’s why companies are demanding hybrid environments — to run their full array of apps optimally. Open-source communities ...

COVID-19 changed the fates of these 5 startups. What’s next?

COVID-19 upset the status quo at many companies — with mixed results — over the past year. The pandemic was a dice roll, delivering widely varying outcomes to different companies. Its ending will return things to normal, but the new normal won’t be the normal they recall from 2019. Yet another dice roll is coming, potentially unseating ...

Performance-enhanced, low-cost flash aims to kill HDD for good

We all want to, so why can’t we kick the hard-drive habit? It’s not today’s data-analytics and artificial-intelligence workloads. They call for the fastest flash storage available. We’re still using sluggish HDDs for their modest pricing. So what happens when flash is priced equal to HDD? HDDs go on display in the museum, companies are ...