Betsy Amy-Vogt

Betsy Amy-Vogt is a staff writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. A digital nomad before the term existed, Betsy started her writing career at a tech startup in Austin, Texas, before taking her laptop off around the globe. When not writing tech news blogs or working on her latest sci-fi fantasy novel, she volunteers at Hekab Be bilingual library and community center in Akumal, Mexico. Got news? Tweet it to @siliconangle.

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Three insights you might have missed from MongoDB World

MongoDB Inc. has always been the developer’s data platform. This is because, from the company’s inception, Mongo’s innovations have been centered around making life easier for software engineers. This commitment continued during the recent MongoDB World event with a list of enhancements to its on-premises MongoDB database and cloud database MongoDB Atlas. TheCUBE’s MongoDB World ...

unitQ provides quantifiable real-time user feedback data to ensure ultimate app performance

There is no question that the COVID pandemic pushed customer experience to the forefront of corporate competitive strategy. According to Fortune Business Insights, companies will spend $11.34 billion on CX management tools this year. And by 2029, spend will have increased to $32.53 billion. Marketing teams spend millions collecting and analyzing data on consumer spending ...

From hype to hyper-personalization: mParticle targets 360-degree vision for real-time, single point-of-truth picture

Gaining a comprehensive, 360-degree customer view is the end goal of digital marketing. Unfortunately, the term is commonly seen to be theoretical hype rather than a practical possibility. In July 2021, market research firm Garner Inc. advised marketers to “abandon the pursuit of a 360-degree customer view.” The company’s Maverick* research had shown that the ...
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Data Power Panel: How lakehouses aim to be the modern data analytics platform

A new generation of object store-based data lakes is rising to prominence, driven by the move to cloud computing and 2021’s record-breaking venture capital investment. The rise is marked by the emergence of three trends. The first of these is the combination of data lakes and data warehouses into a lakehouse. This new category links ...

Managing the risky business of cyberwar: Join theCUBE and Armis live, June 21

If a foreign military were “at our borders ready to attack, we would deem that a crisis. Today, in the cyber domain, we are effectively at the same place,” stated Harvey Rishikof, director of policy and cybersecurity research at the University of Maryland Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security, in an essay for The ...

Temenos moves forward with ‘bold’ modernization as it leads the way for financial services transformation

Not so long ago, the accepted financial services data management setup was an Oracle on-premises relational database. But modern cloud database providers offer secure and fast support across multiple document and multi-collection transactions, giving banks and other financial institutions no excuse for not making the move to cloud. Many choose to “lift and shift” their ...

PagerDuty responds to business ‘triple threat’ with automation and benchmarking

The “cloud mandate” imposed by the COVID pandemic has a downside, as well as a benefit. Global digital interaction increased from 36% in 2019 to 58% in 2020, but with a choice of buying options just a click away, impatient consumers are demanding companies perform on their terms, when and how they want it. “If ...

PagerDuty automates ‘tech hygiene tasks’ to raise the CX bar

Hygiene is important in the digital workplace. Not personal hygiene (although that is important too), but the repetitive, routine tasks that have to be done to keep systems running smoothly and securely. “There’s a lot of technical work that’s kind of like brushing teeth, where you have to do it on a regular basis to ...

Sysdig CEO Suresh Vasudevan shares life lessons from a career growing (and selling) Silicon Valley startups

We recently spoke with the chief executives of companies that participated in the AWS Startup Showcase: New Breakthroughs in DevOps, Data Analytics and Cloud Management Tools to find out what drives them and learn about their visions for the future. This feature is part of theCUBE’s ongoing CEO Startup Spotlight series. As a young man, Suresh ...

Verizon’s cloud continuum meets MongoDB’s multicloud deployment model (it’s all supercloud, really)

Open-source modern database platform provider MongoDB Inc. and communication technology company Verizon Communications Inc. might not seem to have a lot in common. But the companies have formed a strong innovation partnership, thanks to a shared focus on making complex tasks simple. “As MongoDB developed over the years, the mantra really became, ‘We want to ...