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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Argentina implements national health information system, allowing for countrywide medical record access

Argentina has taken a step that is still a “someday maybe” dream in the United States. A national health information system has made patient medical records accessible across the country. And Red Hat Inc. has been an important partner in the project. “The patients now will be able to move between different parts of this complex health ...

Open source steps up as COVID-19 forces instant digital transformations

Businesses that were behind on the cloud journey before the novel coronavirus-19 are really feeling the heat right now. Transitioning to a digital workflow is hard in the best of times, but the almost instantaneous shift to work-from-home and online operations has sent shockwaves through the corporate world. “A lot of customers are being forced ...

The benefits of virtual events may make traditional conferences a thing of the past

As humanity self-isolates under the threat of COVID-19, the biggest social events on the information-technology calendar have been forced to join the digital transformation trend. And everyone who relies on conferences to create or disseminate information are adjusting to a new way of doing business. “My brand, The CTO Advisor, is tied to people … ...
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How a former NSA scientist grasped the Holy Grail of encryption and changed the paradigm for safely sharing data

Women are a minority in tech, with an average of three men for every one woman. When it comes to cybersecurity, the imbalance is even more acute. A 2020 report shows that female cybersecurity experts are outnumbered five to one by their male counterparts. Inside the National Security Agency, cybersecurity’s inner sanctum, the ratio is ...

Unchecked sexism in early Silicon Valley: A new novel reveals the awkward truth

What was it like to be a woman in the early days of Silicon Valley? Exhilarating and brutally sexist, according to one Silicon Valley insider. Writing under the pen name Jenna MacSwain, the author shares her experiences in her new novel “A Slow Leap Into the Sky,” published by Fulton Books. The bias in the ...
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Tech industry leads the way in digital convention experiences

Social interaction has gone digital. From zoom meetings to conventions, the world has turned to technology to enable communication from the isolation of home. Big tech conferences, such as DockerCon 2020, are no exception. Except they are. Software developers have been productive working remotely for years. The virus has had little disruption for an industry ...
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‘Stay-at-home’ puts spotlight on digitally prepared companies over laggards

The changes to society over the past months during the coronavirus pandemic have been unprecedented. As governments around the world recommend social distancing and restrict movement, companies have been forced to quickly adapt. Switching operations to allow employees to work from home and customers to access goods and services online has become priority No. 1. ...
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Cyberhygiene in the age of COVID-19: Avoid online viruses by virtual social-distancing

The world is staying home, and for many staying home means working from home. But bringing work home has a sinister side effect. Cybercriminals are rubbing their hands in glee as employees unable to access secure in-office computers log on in the kitchen, den and bedroom. With parents working on the same devices that they ...
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Vertica v10 doubles down on machine learning

The key to effectively dealing with data? Step one: Gather data. Step two: Analyze data. Step three: Leverage data insights for fun and profit. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? But the amount of data out there is piling up, and the complexities of dealing with it are increasing. The problem is that data alone doesn’t tell anyone ...

Q&A: VP discusses deployment-flexible Vertica v10 and delivering transparent, replicable ML

It’s a wild ride keeping up in the surf of technological change. Some companies miss the wave, while others catch it only to wipe out as it crests. In the world of big data, Vertica has made a habit of catching wave after wave, positioning itself, paddling hard, then hanging ten as it rides the ...