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.

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Direct connect perks: More reliable than public Internet | #reinvent

IIX, Inc. have developed Console, a software that allows businesses to “bypass public Internet” and direct connect. This connection is more consistent, reliable and secure than public Internet. Console is a sub-branding effort from IIX; the software “leverages the platform to get access at the click of a button,” according to Al Burgio, CEO at ...

Juniper Networks: 85% in Cloud thanks to AWS | #reinvent

Traditional businesses looking to shift their applications and other infrastructure into a Cloud-based network face challenges that newer companies — so-called “cloud-born” companies — sidestep. However, with the elasticity of the building blocks and global balance “natively built-in Amazon Cloud,” the process has been “made simple.” In the case of traditional box company Juniper Networks, Inc., ...

New Relic sees enterprise growth in analytics | #reinvent

At the core of any digital experience is analytics. And software analytics go beyond “Is my software working?” according to Hilarie Koplow-McAdams, newly promoted president of New Relic, Inc., which is poised to help businesses answer this question while delving further into “What does  my customer experience look like?” During an interview at Amazon re:Invent 2015 in Las ...

Huge shifts in security: ‘The next 12 months will be about containment’ | #reinvent

“If companies are running their security the same way they have for the past five years, they are absolutely insane,” said Alan Cohen, CCO at Illumio, Inc. Cohen sat down with John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Amazon re:Invent 2015 in Las Vegas. Drawing from a quote Cohen attributes to Albert ...

Mobile-first mentality permeates the enterprise | #reinvent

With the rise of cloud technology comes a new era for enterprise with a new set of demands. The most important of these is mobility, not just for access for current users, but also for application seekers. Amazon Marketplace provides the opportunity for mobile app solutions provider Kony Inc. to present its latest free trials ...

VC says Amazon infrastructure smokes the competition | #reinvent

While developers can usually create software that runs within the parameters of their own databases, the real challenge is developing a software that runs once it is plugged into another platform, like Amazon Marketplace. As a result, many companies are forming to try to solve any issues that arise in that transition. Amazon itself has ...

EMC at tipping point with CoprHD and Cloud Foundry Dojo | #OpenStack

EMC is making good on its promises, according to Dorian Naveh, senior director of alliances and business development at EMC. “It’s been kind of a crawl, walk, run,” Naveh told theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s production team, during OpenStack Summit Vancouver 2015. Naveh said that EMC is at a tipping point and at the execution phase, where EMC is releasing products like ...

‘Reading the tea leaves’ in open development | #OpenStack

While CoreOS, Inc. has a set vision for the future and considers itself an open-source company, it continues to search for answers at the community level. “When it comes to what we are doing, we have a clear vision for where we want to take infrastructure, and it just happens to be that there are a lot of ...

Insight from OpenStack advocates | #OpenStack

While it hasn’t happened overnight, open source has made a big impact on development, according to Raghavan “Rags” Srinivas, architect and evangelist at EMC. Srinivas and Jeff Olsen, director of OpenStack Services Portfolio at EMC, stopped by theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s production team, during OpenStack Summit Vancouver 2015. “We started with open source quite some time back, and that’s the ...

Gaming company uses data to make real-time changes | #HPBigData2015

In the current world of gaming, users are driving changes, according to Jack Gudenkauf,  VP of Big Data at Playtika Ltd. Gudenkauf joined theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s Media production team, during the HP Big Data Conference and described how data is being processed and used by his company to stay up-to-date with user demands. Playtika deals with ...