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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The new breed of data platforms is tolerant of hybrid clouds

Despite good intentions, big-data frameworks and platforms like Apache Hadoop created a lot of murky data swamps. The time and effort needed to make the data therein useful left a lot of users unimpressed. The new breed of data platform builds on those lessons so users can get out as much as they put into ...

Curb the urge to automate if there’s no business case

If it can be automated it should be automated, right? Maybe. Maybe not. If a business with limited time, people and resources goes on a blind automation spree that ultimately doesn’t reduce expenditures or make them more profit, what is that good for? Instead, companies should take the long view and ask what tangible benefit ...

We’re all project managers now, so grab your collab tools, says Forrester

The digital transformation is changing the way businesspeople get work done. Three-fourths of respondents in a Forrester Research Inc. survey said projects in their organizations are more widely distributed than before, with more employees expected to contribute. The influx of input basically benefits outcomes but can be difficult to manage without effective collaboration tools. “Everybody ...

Automation will take huge bite off security officer’s plate by 2020

The security operations centers, or SOCs, in organizations are about to get some extra hands to help fight attacks — not from humans, though. Technologies that automate a big chunk of security tasks are gaining popularity, and they’re the best chance society has against the novel technology threat types barreling full speed ahead, according to Haiyan Song ...

Modern security, digital biz demand real-time data

Real-time has hit the big time in the data-analytics market for good reason. As businesses go digital, responding to customers before the next guy can make or break a sale. Security is also becoming more time sensitive as novel threats demand that security pros analyze and defend against them ASAP. Splunk Inc.’s data-analytics platform helps ...

Carnival gets data into all hands on deck with Splunk

If there’s one nugget among the heap of big data tools, tricks, and marketing fluff that businesses can actually use, it could be data democratization. This takes big data from a backroom concept to something business people can polish their product with day-in-day-out. Tools like these are winning customers whose ongoing concern is product or ...

Cooking data-platform use cases good and done

Big data is complicated, and so are data platforms. Splunk Inc., for example, is popular because it is so versatile, but all those possibilities can leave all but seasoned experts a little lost. But the rich possibilities are too good to pass on, so some customers opt for an intermediary to help them hurry up ...
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Better, faster, lighter e-bikes set to race through the U.S. market

The new breed of e-bikes with lightweight lithium-ion batteries and speeds up to 28 miles per hour are eliciting different questions from consumers, startups and cities: Are they all-around better than regular bikes? Are they fit for both commuting and sports biking? Will they replace cars? Lighter, cleaner batteries are spurring the uptick in e-biking in ...

Splunk spreads data beyond IT and security, lowers bar to MVP status

How does a company nab and hold down one of the snazziest spots in the data-analytics market? It’s actually pretty simple: Give customers the ways and means to extract real insights from their data — stuff like better-designed products, more cash in the bank and higher customer counts. Lowering the bar to practical data use is how Splunk ...

Work apps that put ‘regular’ employees in the innovation juice press

Whom do modern businesses depend on to come up with the next breakthrough discovery or innovative idea? Since businesses in general are becoming software businesses, many would say it’s their developers. But what if, with the right technologies, a much wider swath of employees could be innovators and creators? One of the best uses for ...