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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Open-source community dumps the swag bag in favor of supporting STEM education

Swag is synonymous with corporate events as companies entice attendees with freebies in return for a chance to demonstrate their product. But handing out promotional gimmicks that eventually find their way into a landfill doesn’t fit well with the open-source culture of sustainability and giving back. And when developers don’t like something, they change it. So, ...

Q&A: Maintaining business continuity in the isolation era

Strategizing to preserve business continuity and prevent downtime is a continuing quest. From tapes to floppies to flash, companies have stored data in one form or another to restore in the event of catastrophe. Now, as remote operations become the norm, what is considered mission-critical has changed. So too has the speed of recovery. In ...
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Identifying and monetizing data resources helps companies survive pandemic downturn

In a coronavirus-ruled world, data is king. Take beleaguered U.S. airlines American and United. In an effort to survive the pandemic, both have mortgaged their loyalty programs. When the value was revealed, what most had seen as a marketing tactic turned out to be a massive revenue driver worth tens of billions of dollars. In ...
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Upscaling the Air Force: How the VAULT platform has democratized decision-making within the armed forces

The military has always been a top-down organization, but now even the lowest members on the ranking ladder have the opportunity to influence organizational decisions. The cultural flip is thanks to a new data platform that gives every member of the United States Air Force, from airmen to noncommissioned officers, the ability to create data-driven ...
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Q&A: How to boost data security, quality with efficient data-administration hierarchy

As organizations go digital, data becomes the critical resource that drives organizational models and operations. The need to manage that data while ensuring it is high quality and kept secure has led to chief data officers and chief information security officers joining the chief information officer in the executive ranks. But there is no defined organizational framework ...

CEO Charlie Giancarlo: Despite slowdown, Pure Storage looks to grow the market

Pure Storage Inc. has a tradition of outperforming its competitors. And with the release of its fiscal second-quarter results, the company issued a confident, if somewhat cautious, forecast for continued growth. “We feel like we’re operating with all of our cylinders going,” said Charlie Giancarlo (pictured), chief executive officer of Pure Storage Inc. “We picked up ...

Abstracting Kubernetes: Open-source community shifts focus to infrastructure-as-a-service

As-a-service hides technological complexity behind layers of abstractions, showing only the user-friendly face. But under the hood, the intricacy is growing with applications and data following edge computing as it spreads itself across the globe and into space. “There’s a really rich opportunity within open source to observe what’s going on and to offer some ...
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It’s time to wipe the security slate clean and start over

Thousands of internet posts, including quite a few from theCUBE, have highlighted the increased security risk created by an expanding attack surface area. In the fight to protect sensitive data, companies have gathered security tools boxes filled with solutions and established set-in-stone routines to reduce potential exposure. Six months ago, deviating from that norm and returning ...

Watch live: App modernization takes center stage at Google Cloud Next OnAir

Moving into the realm of cloud computing has become a major stress for traditional enterprises burdened with decades of legacy software applications. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, 71% of CEO’s cited improved agility and faster time to market as a top priority. But upgrades and patches can create security nightmares that can only be cured ...

Red Hat brings paradigm shift to Kubernetes cluster management

There’s a slang term including the word cluster that describes a chaotic situation caused by a complex environment. It wasn’t created in response to managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across clouds, at the edge, and on-premise — but it could have been. As containers multiplied to become a cluster, now clusters are multiplying and spreading across distributed environments. ...