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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What to expect during the ‘Accelerating Business Transformation’ event: Join theCUBE Nov. 1

VMware Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. were once bitter rivals, competing for customers across the infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-Service markets. Previous VMware Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger even went so far as to tell VMware partners in 2013, “If a workload goes to Amazon, you lose, and we have lost forever.” Today, the two ...

Upbound turbocharges DevOps workflows and launches developer-friendly toolkit for supercloud

DevOps engineers are always looking for ways to remove friction from the development pipeline and turbocharge their workflow. They are finding it in an open-source project that extends Kubernetes beyond containers to simplify and speed cloud management. “What we’re seeing now is the Kubernetes API is emerging as a way to standardize on literally everything ...
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‘A hardware nerd-fest of the top minds’: TheCUBE analysts preview upcoming Supercomputing show

The world is on the precipice of a revolution in hardware as engineers push the boundaries of physics to build black boxes that contain the power of infinite innovation possibilities. The place to watch this new era unfold is The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, better known as Supercomputing 2022. ...

Dell uses collaborative strategy to build cyber resilience into its HCI portfolio

Optimizing security often involves adding friction to the user experience. And no matter how powerful a security feature is, it is worthless if it gets turned off. A 2022 survey found that 76% of information technology decision-makers will turn off security features to improve performance. “Absolutely the worst thing you can do from a security perspective ...

How Dell is securing the network in a dispersed computing environment

The United States Federal Bureau of Information opened its Internet Crime Complaint Center, IC3, in 2000. Over the next 17 years, the center received an average of 235,000 reports a year. Between 2017 and 2020, the number grew steadily from approximately 300,000 a year to 470,000. Then came the onslaught. 2020 saw 791,790 incidents reported across the ...

Dell PowerEdge servers build cyber resilience with zero-trust security smorgasbord of features

The past three years have seen a seismic shift in the security landscape. Cloud computing has achieved widespread enterprise adoption, with 80% of organizations choosing hybrid strategies with multiple public cloud providers. The percentage of people working outside the secure office perimeter has also ballooned, with high-paying remote job opportunities increasing from 3.69% of all ...

What to expect from the ‘Trusted Infrastructure: Episode 2’ event: Join theCUBE Oct. 18

In today’s increasingly sophisticated threat landscape, there just aren’t enough cybersecurity experts to go around. Technology is evolving to fill the gap, providing built-in security from the bottom of the stack to the top. “One of the very important roles that a technology vendor can play is to take mundane infrastructure security off the plates ...

What to expect during AnsibleFest: Join theCUBE Oct. 18-19

An important tactic for organizations competing in today’s data-driven economy is automating inefficient processes to streamline cloud operations. In one use case, global energy company Compañía Española de Petróleos S.A.U., known as Cepsa, reported 6,000 saved work hours, 35% more productivity, and 10-15% faster response times after automating processes using the Red Hat Ansible Automation ...

Encouraging citizen developers is key to adoption of automation, says IDC survey

Automation is one of the key tenets of digital transformation, with 80% of respondents in recent Gartner survey citing it as a top tactic for cost optimization. But those same leaders are struggling to implement automation. The secret to success, according to a recent IDC survey, is not hiring developers to automate as many processes as possible, but enabling ...

Automation is central to enterprise digital transformation, says PepsiCo AI lead

A Global Business Services department takes responsibility for maximizing efficiency in costs and processes. It’s also an important driver of digital transformation in enterprise. The GBS team at multinational food, snack and beverage corporation PepsiCo Inc. is a pioneer of intelligent automation, leveraging the capabilities of UiPath Inc. to help it accomplish its digital transformation ...