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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New CNCF head Priyanka Sharma aims to keep building cloud-native wave

“Collectively we are smarter” is the premise behind open-source projects. In the five years since its start as a Linux Foundation project to incubate container technology, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has nurtured and promoted the smarts of tens of thousands of contributors from across the globe. Today, the foundation announced that longtime CNCF contributor, ...

Docker helps Australia cure cancer, one child at a time

Containerization is helping fight childhood cancer, as Docker Inc. makes big-data research pipelines scalable and simplifies the sharing of data sets. Cancer kills more children in developed countries than any other disease. It is the number one cause of death in school-aged children, according to a study conducted by the New England Journal of Medicine, ...
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Docker and Microsoft help first-responder developers build a way out of crisis

The world is at war against a virus, and the frontlines are staffed with doctors and nurses battling to save lives. But behind them in the trenches are a battalion of developers creating solutions to aid in the fight. “There’s over 200 community projects on Docker Hub today, where you’ve got tools and containers and ...
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Containers 101: AWS, Docker and how to choose a container service

Containerization is one of the key concepts that fueled the digital revolution and supported the evolution of cloud. The concept of using OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages had its start in open-source projects such as Linux-VServer, which evolved into LinuX Containers, or LXC, which in turn was adopted and evolved by Docker Inc. ...

Q&A: Standard Bank Group shares how it built a mature data operations framework

Data is an asset. But does enterprise treat it as such? Knowing something and doing it are two different things. Even after a business has made the transition to digital operations, data managers are challenged to shift the cultural mindset of data as a sidebar overseen by the IT department to one where data is ...
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Replace work stress with happiness: Author shares tools from ‘Happier Now’

Success and happiness are inextricably intertwined, right? That one leads to the other is at the root of the rags-to-riches American Dream. Yet many who have won “the game of life” are deeply unsatisfied within. Chasing happiness through professional acclaim and financial success, they find that it is a seemingly unattainable goal. “I’d feel happy. And ...
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It’s time to prepare for a transformation in networking

Computer networking is on the rising edge of transformation as it steps up to meet the challenge of a world where communication is virtual and the perimeter includes everything — and enterprises had better be paying attention. “For the first time in history, business leaders need to look at their network strategies,” said Zeus Kerravala ...
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Is hyperautomation more than hype? Insights behind UiPath’s intelligent RPA platform

We live in a world inhabited by robots, and the most useful may be those that exist outside the physical plane. Robotic process automation has given us virtual assistants that quietly work behind the scenes; entering data, processing forms, answering calls, and even filing tax returns. These RPA bots are simplifying operations and increasing profits ...

Intelligent vehicles demand agile updates, precipitating disruptive change in automotive industry

Intelligent, connected cars are proclaimed to be the wave of the future. Yet, software has been embedded in vehicles for over three decades. As each generation of cars gets smarter, the user experience becomes more comfortable and more automated. And internal intelligent programming becomes more of an automotive essential than the internal combustion engine. The company ...

SUSE, SAP, IBM collaboration simplifies cloud infrastructure choices for CIOs

Partnerships have become a critical part of the new enterprise landscape. Where once companies stood alone, even long-time competitors are now collaborating on projects and building cross-platform solutions. Ahead in the cooperation game were technological giant IBM and the developer of SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE. “The focus with SUSE almost from the beginning has been on ...