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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How to build a cyber resilient security stance: AWS security VP weighs in

Cybersecurity has always been a game of cat and mouse. But today it operates on a constantly accelerating speed and scale. The digital era has brought more data to steal and spread it across complex hybrid and multicloud environments while the bad guys are as likely to be sophisticated criminal gangs or well-funded, nation-state actors ...
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Three insights you might have missed at The Data Doesn’t Lie … Or Does It?

“We’ll expose data lies, big lies, little lies, white lies and hidden truths,” theCUBE industry analyst Dave Vellante promised as he introduced the “The Data Doesn’t Lie … Or Does It?” event. “And we’ll challenge age-old data conventions and bust some data myths.” The super-webinar, which aired live on theCUBE Sept. 1, delivered on its promise ...
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VMware expands focus from virtualization to multicloud services

Call it multicloud 2.0, call it cross-cloud services or call it supercloud. It’s a way to fix the information technology chaos that companies inadvertently created when they made a headlong, pandemic-rushed move to the cloud. “What we see is that there’s these different sort of vertical silos; the different public clouds, they’re on-prem, data center, ...
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VMware positions for prominence in the supercloud market: VMware Explore Day 2 analysis

Over 12 years of watching VMware Inc., theCUBE has seen some major changes. Through acquisitions and internal restructuring, product pivots and spin-offs, the company has kept its engineering focus and proved its resilience. Even as the company faces possible cutbacks after the proposed acquisition by Broadcom Inc., it made a strong case for its future ...
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Could Cohesity mature into the new VMware or AWS? New CEO Sanjay Poonen weighs in

Just over a year ago, Sanjay Poonen (pictured) was in the running to replace Pat Gelsinger as the chief executive officer of VMware Inc. Instead, he hung up his chief operating officer credentials and took a sabbatical from the fast-paced world of enterprise technology. Now, he’s attending VMware Explore as a member of the partner ecosystem, ...

Exposing three misconceptions blocking orgs from maximizing their data potential

It’s been over a decade since a disillusioned Jeff Hammerbacher told Businessweek he was quitting Facebook (Meta Platforms Inc.) because “the best minds of my generation are thinking about how to get people to click on ads. And that sucks.” Today’s analytical and mathematical geniuses are still struggling to solve the problem of gaining value from ...

VMware cements its relevance to the future of cloud: VMware Explore Day 1 analysis

VMware Inc. faced high odds in its struggle to retain market relevance as enterprise technology moved into the cloud era. The company’s timeline includes some notable rocky moments. But VMware fought back and is facing the future with the support of a strong ecosystem. During day one of the newly branded VMware Explore event, theCUBE ...

VMware CEO weighs in on Broadcom acquisition, multicloud and why supercloud is the future

In theCUBE’s breakdown of day one at VMware Explore, theCUBE analysts John Furrier and Dave Vellante speculated that Broadcom Inc. chief executive officer Hock E. Tan may have “bought more than they thought” with its planned acquisition of VMware Inc. Were they correct? When Raghu Raghuram (pictured), chief executive officer of VMware, joined the analysts ...

Has Broadcom underestimated VMware’s supercloud potential? TheCUBE analysts break down VMware Explore Day 1 news

What is Hock E. Tan thinking? It’s a question VMware Inc. Chief Executive Officer Raghu Raghuram may have been asking himself as he kicked off VMware’s newly branded VMware Explore conference. The Broadcom CEO’s presence in the audience created a groundswell of gossip, as attendees speculated how Broadcom’s plans for its $60 billion investment will ...

JumpCloud helps orgs solve identity access security dilemmas in the hybrid workplace

Remember when offices were neat, standardized affairs? Rows of cubicles and corner window offices were supplied with almost identical Windows desktops, and Microsoft Domain Controller was all the information technology department needed for identity management. Then cloud and COVID exploded the environment. The already eroding standardization on Windows devices went out the window. Employees chose ...