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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Digital transformation makes DMV interaction streamlined for California residents

From “The Simpsons” to TikTok employee parodies, the Department of Motor Vehicles has been the target of more bad service jokes than any other United States governmental agency. So, it’s hardly a place that you’d look to as an example of digital efficiency. However, the State of California has turned its DMV reputation around, providing ...
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How intelligent automation is reshaping the workplace

Everyone is aware of the Great Resignation happening across the globe. Workplace culture is changing, and employees are questioning the reasons they go to work while companies are searching for ways to recruit and retain top talent. Research conducted this year shows that how a business takes care of its employees directly affects profitability, with ...
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UiPath on existential mission: Evolve from RPA tool to enterprise platform

Four themes dominated the day one keynote at UiPath Forward 5 in Las Vegas, according to theCUBE analysts. The first three were how RPA is going from a tool to a way of operating and innovation, that outcomes are shifting from tactical to transformational, and that automation has become a line item in annual reports. ...
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Investing in RPA/automation is fiscally smart move during difficult financial times, say analysts

UiPath Inc. is a fast-growing company in an expanding market. Robotic process automation adoption is on the rise, as companies realize that relieving humans from repetitive tasks is resource efficient in terms of both time and money. Statista Inc. data shows growth for the RPA market from $1.23 billion to $2.07 billion between 2020 and ...
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UiPath represents a generational opportunity, says new co-CEO Robert Enslin

UiPath Inc. founder Daniel Dines has always been a charismatic leader known for taking bold moves as he steered his company to the top of the robotic process automation/automation market. In April of this year, he chose to share his power, appointing Robert Enslin co-chief executive officer. “We instantly clicked,” said Dines (pictured, right), who was looking ...
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Three insights you might have missed from ‘theCUBE @ Fal.Con 2022′

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. was founded in 2011 as a cloud-native, single-agent security solution designed to “stop the breach, not just stop malware.” Today, the company is a leading independent security firm with aspirations to become a generational platform. Its second-quarter financial results for the fiscal year 2023 showed annual recurring revenue over $2 billion and record ...
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Is VMware’s pivot from VMworld’s cloud-native focus to VMware Explore and multicloud a smart move? Industry analysts weigh in

The recent VMware Explore event brought the term “cloud chaos” into the information technology lexicon. It was a welcome addition that summed up the problems of managing multiple cloud vendors within a single organization. VMware Inc. claims to be addressing this issue with its focus on multicloud management, pivoting the pure cloud-native message of the ...

Oracle’s ‘Swiss Army knife’ approach to DBaaS continues to pay off with MySQL HeatWave ML

Open MySQL databases are the workhorse of data processing and analytics, with performance and cost benefits rivaling all the major cloud platforms. But while traditional MySQL databases offer reliability and cost-savings, they suffer from limited reporting and analytics capabilities, low automation potential and zero machine learning ability. Database administrators have overcome this by adding on separate services in ...

Inside Oracle’s partnership with AMD to boost MySQL HeatWave performance

Publicly announcing benchmarks on GitHub for anyone to trial is a bold move. So, when Oracle Corp. published code to prove performance of its MySQL HeatWave database, some expected competitors to respond to the challenge. But while analysts and prospects tested and validated HeatWave’s advantages, the cloud database market leaders have remained remarkably quiet — ...

What to expect during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022: Join theCUBE Oct. 26-28

In 2016’s run-up to KubeCon, theCUBE asked “Is Kubernetes ready for prime time?” Seven years later, as the cloud-native ecosystem gears up for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022, Kubernetes has conquered prime time and exploded across the enterprise IT landscape. During this year’s conference in October, the question will be: Can Kubernetes be managed securely ...