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.

Latest from Betsy Amy-Vogt

VMware and Nvidia make the power of AI accessible to every enterprise

What do you get if you mix Nvidia Corp.’s artificial intelligence smarts with VMware Inc.’s virtualization and cloud expertise? Attendees at VMworld 2020 virtual found out when the partners announced the release of a jointly engineered solution that promises “to bring AI to every enterprise.” “This is a great moment in time where AI has finally ...
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE

Q&A: Welcome to Project Monterey: VMware gets ready to rip apart the I/O stack

VMworld is known for being a technical conference. Last year Project Pacific made a match between vSphere and Kubernetes. This year Project Monterey is aimed at reimagining the data center for next-generation applications. During an interview today with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, VMware Inc. Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger described the project as “ripping apart the I/O stack from ...

VMware brings VMworld into the virtual realm, drives business transformation

VMware Inc. has been on a transformational journey. In an unexpected U-turn, the company went from being threatened with extinction by container technology to marrying Kubernetes and virtual machines in a revolutionary and successful alliance. Now, the new and improved VMware is facing another challenge — taking an event that is considered “the gold standard” ...

30,000 DDoS attacks a day … and rising: NetScout’s first threat report of 2020 shows ‘ongoing onslaught’ to the network

Distributed denial of service events, known as DDoS attacks, are old school when it comes to cyber threats. But that doesn’t mean that they’re obsolete. Slowing down or crashing devices by overwhelming systems with incoming requests is still high on cyber criminals’ “to-do” lists. And as 2020 drives work, school and socialization online, DDoS attacks are ...

Dell EMC sees 30 years of Symmetrix storage array innovation

Symmetrix storage arrays, which began as EMC’s flagship product in the 1990s and are still going strong today in Dell Technologies Inc.’s PowerMax family, have been an essential part of enterprise computing infrastructure. With this month marking the technology’s 30th anniversary, theCUBE takes a look at the history of Symmetrix and how PowerMax is keeping that legacy going ...

How IT is helping make the workplace safe from COVID-19

Many of us wish we could install an upgrade and be done with this version of 2020 for good. Of course, there’s no magic wand that will allow us to go back to the office, chat at the coffee machine, and take a client to lunch. But technology comes close. “We’ve created all kinds of ...

As Moore’s law crumbles, researchers seek a hybrid quantum-conventional computing solution

It was 1985. “We are the World” won record of the year, “Back to the Future” hit the movie screens, and Dr. David Deutsch invented the first quantum algorithm. For most young adults, the first two events were of ultimate importance; the third went largely unnoticed. It was big news, however, for a group of fledgling researchers ...

From telehealth to robot companions, the US healthcare system undergoes a much-needed transformation

The U.S. healthcare system was in crisis even before COVID-19 turned the world upside down. Despite spending more on healthcare than other industrialized nations, the U.S. had the highest number of preventable hospitalizations and avoidable deaths. “Even before the pandemic, HIMMS research was talking about the fact that likely 25% of rural hospitals would fail,” said Mary ...

The secret to empowering employees in a post-COVID world: A people-first workplace culture

There’s been a lot written about companies having to transform under pressure as COVID-19 regulations force employees to stay at home. But how are the workers themselves handling being thrown in at the deep end? Across the world, people have set up workstations in their bedrooms or crowded on the kitchen counter between the toaster ...

Q&A: Creating secure, accessible data management in a distributed digital workplace

The big question of distributed business is how to get data from A to B to Z, securely, speedily and accessibly. On the surface it sounds easy: After all, “it’s just two different data points, connect them together, make it secure, make it visible, create transparency,” said Simon Walsh, (pictured) chief executive officer, NTT Ltd. ...