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.

Latest from R. Danes

Veeam and NetApp double-team hybrid data run wild

Mission-critical apps on-premises, machine-learning apps on Google Cloud Platform, serverless apps on Amazon Web Services cloud — phew, it’s getting hectic in modern enterprise information technology. The number of clouds isn’t going to shrink anytime soon, so it would help if things like data backup and data management would fuse to keep the number of ...

NetApp founder to cloud-crazed masses: ‘What’s your problem?’

A lot of companies are biting their nails thinking they’re not doing enough to modernize through cloud computing. They’re grasping at everything with cloud-infrastructure, cloud-based, cloud-service, cloud-native on the label. They want to be all-in on cloud, all the time. For them, David Hitz (pictured), founder and executive vice president of NetApp Inc., has a question: ...

Creating happy hybrid users: inside Azure and NetApp’s deep-engineering partnership

There are many flavors of  partnerships in tech — some dismissed as optical deals or Barney deals. What does a real-deal, deep-engineering partnership look like? It looks like an osmosis between two companies’ portfolios that changes the way end-users consume and benefit from them. It looks like NetApp Inc.’s partnership with Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud. ...

Cohesity and Azure do data-backup backflips in hybrid cloud

On the zig-zag route to multicloud’s ultimate destination, it helps to have a Swiss Army knife on hand — a tool that can core an apple as easily as it can pop the lid off a bottle of Martinelli’s. For businesses migrating data, that tool would be data protection that spans on-premises and cloud environments and ...

Deep learning solutions: Businesses buy more, build less to reach the cutting edge

Sure, every company these days wants to digitize everything and live as close to the cutting edge as Google LLC or Uber Technologies Inc. But do they have the necessary know-how in areas like artificial intelligence, deep learning, microservices, etc.? Most don’t, so they’re seeking vendors that have packaged Google-league brains and tech into ready-made, ...

Speed is the new scale, and data fabric’s the highway, says NetApp CEO

Many companies out there are tired of sitting on their data waiting for it to hatch. When will computing services vendors come up with a solution that helps them turn a profit from data? First of all, the market’s driving technologies for big-data analytics and artificial intelligence aren’t exactly easy to master. But hybrid computing methods that bring analytics ...

Social media managers and other reasons AI won’t leave us all jobless

Stories in the news about automation technology making human hands obsolete may paint an incomplete picture of the future of the workplace. The point at which data-driven analytics and automation meet people is actually a wide open space for new types of work, according to some. “I think McKinsey’s study says only 5 percent of ...

NetApp sets out to prove multicloud prowess at Insight 2018

A lot of dins are coming from NetApp Inc.’s marketing department about transforming into something more than a storage company. But what exactly is that something? According to the company’s marketing executives, it’s all to do with data management for multicloud. Is there any beef to this claim, and where does that place NetApp in the ...

John Hennessy former Stanford president kicks off Mayfield’s People First Network content series

What makes a successful startup? Not one that flashes in the news with a hum of familiar buzzwords and makes a quick buck before fizzling out. Is it a boatload of Series A cash? An aggressive media blitz? Or just a market that hungers for that particular product at that particular time? It might be ...

Data-protection startups hug new infra curves, but are legacies more comfy?

The latest changes in infrastructure — namely the move from on-premises data centers to cloud — are so dramatic they’re rippling through other ancillary technologies. For example, customers with multicloud environments expect so many new capabilities from data backup, it’s practically become a whole different animal. “Nobody calls it backup anymore; the whole market is ...