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

Interana: The new kids on the data block | #BigDataSV

As companies increasingly try to understand what their users are doing, finding the right tools to do so makes all the difference. One company, Interana, Inc., brings a behavioral analytics solution for event data that enables businesses to obtain insights from the actions people, products or machines make over time. Christina Noren, chief product officer at Interana, Inc., summed ...

Can Oracle become the number one cloud provider? | #CloudWorld

In the midst of Oracle’s historic third shift, Shawn Price, senior VP of Oracle Cloud at Oracle, detailed the buyer’s journey at CloudWorld. Price remarked about the smooth trajectory of the company’s business model, which until now has only had two major shifts. This third shift is the move to the public cloud for most applications ...

Is Oracle 100% ‘cloud ready’? | #CloudWorld

This year’s Oracle CloudWorld is showcasing the versatility of the Oracle line of products. Familiar products, such as Oracle OpenStack, have been made more flexible in their programming languages. And new products, such as the just-announced Oracle Cloud at Customer, enable organizations to get the benefits of Oracle’s cloud services in their own datacenter. Amit Zavery, senior ...

Everybody loves developers: GitHub and IBM announce enterprise collaboration | #IBMInterConnect

Although GitHub, Inc. and IBM have worked together before on providing a social aspect to IBM’s developerWorks Premium just last year, the two companies are back with a new project that allows internal developers to further leverage IBM’s enterprise software. Joining John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during ...

The life of a 12-year-old software developer | #IBMInterConnect

“The world needs more developers,” Tanmay Bakshi, 12-year-old software developer and entrepreneur, asserted during his debut on theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during IBM InterConnect 2016. While his poise is enviable at any age, Bakshi has only been developing for three years. With his career in making a wide-range of helpful apps for college ...

Wikibon analysts review 2015 and reveal outlook for 2016 | #BMCDay

At the close of BMC Day in Boston, MA, Dave Vellante, Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely, Wikibon analysts and cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, weighed in on highlights from 2015 and projected what 2016 might bring. Miniman reflected on his six years of observing the role of convergence and breaking away from silos, ...

Control-M moves outside of the data center | #BMCDay

Traditional analytic applications are challenged by newer programs like Hadoop for relevancy and customer engagement. Nevertheless, those at the helm of Control-M (workflow automation software) find that even in the face of Hadoop, “Our solution has even greater relevance than it has before,” remarked Joe Goldberg, solutions marketing manager at BMC Software, Inc. Goldberg sat ...

Digital disruption affects ‘real’ economy | #IBMinsight

Banorte Bank of Mexico is in the middle of a major overhaul with Big Data. Guillermo Guemez Sarre, CTO at Banorte, called the undertaking a “large process” with the goal of “trying to close the circle from info into cash.” The bank is working with “various initiatives that start with all the information that the ...

Oracle striving to become #1 Linux vendor | #oow15

With last year’s September release of Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux, Oracle determined that only one release of a singular product was necessary, because updates every three months can be overwhelming for the market. Oracle recently announced the Kilo release, and OpenStack 2 will be based on Kilo. Wim Coekaerts, SVP of Linux (The Linux ...

Without quality storage, ‘oceans of data’ provides no value | #oow15

Extracting business value from storage is all about how it analyzes Big Data. Eric Herzog, VP of product marketing at IBM, likened storage to a house’s foundation, explaining that unless storage is strong the data is without value. Herzog quantified the business value of storage with report run times, stating that IBM storage can complete ...