Ain Drew

Ain Drew is a SiliconANGLE writer covering live events with theCUBE. As a writer, she’s covered everything from technology to Hip-Hop. She’s worked with PETA as an Urban Marketing Coordinator and poured over data in the field of education. Her biggest passion is creative writing, which has resulted in two self-published poetry books, If Life’s Rotten, Write to the Core and Sunday. When she’s not writing, Drew prefers to explore vegan cuisine, watch documentaries, and spend time with her only son. Got news? Tweet us @siliconangle.

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Q&A: VMware’s delicately balanced partnership with AWS brings modernization to migration

In the world of hybrid cloud computing, VMware Cloud on AWS has proven to be a beneficial partnership. While managing its services on the AWS Cloud infrastructure, VMware Inc. is able to respond to customer problems in a more meaningful way, with access to additional AWS services. And while the virtualization giant is making waves ...

Q&A: Citrix embraces simplicity so end users can work smarter

At the forefront of digital transformation are no longer the power users, but the end users who, according to survey data, are disengaged and yearning for a more user-friendly and ultimately, more productive workspace. Disengagement is costing enterprises trillions of dollars per year in lost work time, and Citrix Systems Inc. is looking to decrease ...

Q&A: Educating at the edge: Indiana University sees up to 200K devices online at any moment

At any given moment at Indiana University Bloomington, there can be up to 200,000 devices on its network at once. That’s factoring in devices across other campuses and remote learners, as the university beefs up its networking architecture to serve virtual courses across the globe and to improve accessibility for learners with disabilities. For networking services at ...

Q&A: Citrix takes a quantum leap into process automation

Citrix Systems Inc. is hoping to help users get back valuable work time with robotic process automation. Through thoughtful analytics, it seeks to gather and use data that will solve the problem of the everyday worker — the monotony of mundane tasks — by letting artificial intelligence take on the tedium. But the move won’t ...

Q&A: How GigaSpaces delivers real-time solutions with AI

On the big data side, companies have a need for speed. Whether it’s proactively preventing fraud or predictive maintenance, GigaSpaces Technologies Ltd. aims to be the one to call for those big data solutions, thanks to its work in artificial intelligence to push real-time insights. As winners of this year’s Innovation Award at Informatica World in ...

Q&A: Miami Marlins amp up ‘fan connection’ year-round with digital transformation

After nearly 150 years, baseball is still considered America’s favorite pastime. Even while staying faithful to tradition, the Miami Marlins have been able to embrace digital transformation and forge partnerships with tech powerhouses that arm them with the tools needed to digitally connect franchise to consumer. One of the organization’s challenges is delivering products and ...

Q&A: Citrix aims to be a verb meaning ‘work gets done’

Professionals across all industries struggle with disengagement, which can lead to lack of productivity and falling short of their highest potential. This is a challenge at the edge of computing’s network, where laptops and smartphones reign for remote and on-site workers alike. Now Citrix Systems Inc. is delivering new services and integrations at the edge ...

Q&A: Data grows into the zettabytes, and AI proves to be the art of the possible

Digital transformation is made possible partly because of data, and the growing amount of data makes it nearly impossible for humans alone to analyze it all. Enter artificial intelligence. Through this type of machine learning, organizations are able to gather valuable information from data and do more than they’d ever imagined. “People say AI is ...

Q&A: Dell’s PowerSwitch tackles open networking, future-proofs multicloud

Historically, networking has been a complex system of hardware meets software. Cloud computing is now changing the way the enterprise looks at networks.  “We’ve seen a massive wave of adoption and moving to this open, disaggregated and software-defined network,” said Drew Schulke (pictured), vice president of networking at Dell EMC. “We’re going to be the company that’s going to ...

Q&A: Say no to IT silos and yes to multicloud integrations

Companies often shell out a lot of money to run workloads and applications on various cloud platforms, but achieving a true multicloud infrastructure requires more than financial investments. Also needed is strategic planning based on an organization’s unique challenges and opportunities. Moving away from silos and toward integrations through application programming interfaces is a step ...