Amber Johnson

Amber Johnson is a beat writer for SiliconANGLE's premier media team, theCUBE. She covers theCUBE events worldwide, spanning expert commentary on the hottest trends in IT. Johnson worked as an editor at Hendrix College's newspaper publication, The Profile. As a History major, she enjoys learning about the advances made in technology, both in the past and at the bleeding edge. Johnson is an award-winning writer and speaks German. An avid hobbyist, she paints, hikes, and writes poetry in her off-time. She lives in Arkansas with her cat.

Latest from Amber Johnson

Nutanix brings back the weekend | #NEXTConf

Nutanix is “the most disruptive and liberating technology that I have used in the last 10 years,” proclaimed Bob Love, director of Information Technologies at Bottomline Technologies, a financial services focused software as a service. The Nutanix system delivers “high availability” and “ease of management,” Love reported to theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman at ...

The new Aruba within HP | #HPDiscover

Aruba Networks, Inc. was founded “90 days after Intel introduced the Centrino platform,” Dominic Orr, president of Aruba (now part of Hewlett-Packard Co.). At the time, Orr stated the company was thinking the “workplace is going to be transformed the moment you cut the Ethernet cable.” Since that prediction, a decade has passed, and Orr ...

3PAR and flash: A perfect storm of economics | #HPDiscover

It’s been five years since Hewlett-Packard Co. acquired 3PAR, Inc., and a lot has changed since then. Milan Shetti, chief technical officer of HP Storage, spoke to theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick during HP Discover 2015 and recounted the journey of making 3PAR flash-capable. Starting with their first impression concerning the storage and servers, ...

Composable infrastructure explained: HP’s Project Synergy | #HPDiscover

Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Paul Durzan, VP of Product Marketing and Converged Data Center Infrastructure, recently divulged the benefits of composable infrastructure within the newly announced Project Synergy while talking with theCUBE’s John Furrier and Dave Vellante during HP Discover 2015. “Everything is about software. The future is moving towards software,” Durzan stated. Durzan described two different ...

A thousand flowers bloom in the Big Data ecosystem | #HPDiscover

“Big Data permeates everything in an organization,” Colin Mahony, senior VP and GM of Software and Big Data at Hewlett-Packard Co., remarked while discussing the “data-driven enterprise” with theCUBE’s John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Mahony, a Cube alum and perhaps a Hadoop oracle, talked about how the new frontier of Big Data is emerging as ...

HP’s take on the overall IT approach| #HPDiscover

“What we love to understand is where is the customer from the business going, what is happening in that market. What we find is being very agile and fast to solve new business problems has become a major priority for IT,” asserted Johan Deschuyffeleer, senior VP and GM for Worldwide Technology Services Consulting at Hewlett-Packard ...

Discovering the four areas of transformation | #HPDiscover

“Small developers can disrupt the industry [but] at this point, it’s disrupt or be disrupted,” Jason Newton, senior director of Marketing at Hewlett-Packard Co., noted concerning the new breed of applications and data in today’s market. Newton spoke to theCUBE during HP Discover 2015. HP Discover 2015 offered the public their first glimpse at the ...

Force in function: Harnessing change | #HPDiscover

The current business climate has created a “perfect storm” for modern IT organizations, due to the increasing pace and need for non-linear thinking and mobility, according to one architecture executive at Hewlett-Packard, Co. Sitting down with theCUBE at HP’s annual Discover event, K.C. Choi, Global Solutions Architecture and Engineering VP at HP, explained the obstacles this ...