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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Does the hybrid Cloud truly exist? | #OSSV15

Standardizing the interface between “the world of tools and the infrastructure to build apps, and the systems that take apps and run them,” was the topic of conversation with Craig McLuckie, senior product manager at Google, who spoke to John Furrier and Jeff Frick on @theCUBE, during OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015. “Hybrid needs to be first and ...

OpenSource Silicon Valley 2015: Unlocking infrastructure and changing IT | #OSSV15

The OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015 conference kicked off today at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, with the theme “unlocking infrastructure.” theCUBE’s John Furrier and Jeff Frick started off coverage of OpenStack with a rundown of upcoming events and a look down memory lane at how OpenStack has changed IT. Looking back at OpenStack Silicon Valley ...

Cisco, Red Hat create platform for IoT innovation | #OpenStack

“We’re building a platform … so that people can consume on demand, as they need it, what they’re looking for,” said Chris Wright, chief technologist for Red Hat, Inc. Wright, along with Dave Ward, CTO of engineering and chief architect at Cisco Systems, Inc., joined theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s production team, at OpenStack Summit Vancouver 2015 discuss the current Red ...

FICO embraces OpenStack | #OpenStack

FICO recently transitioned from legacy to OpenStack. And, according to Nick Gerasimatos, director of engineering and Cloud services at FICO, “Everything is growing so rapidly, you either have to embrace the technology or the technology is going to supersede you.” Gerasimatos spoke to theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s production team, during OpenStack Summit 2015 in Vancouver. FICO’s agressive ...

Red Hat, OpenStack and OpenShift work together for fluid environment | #OpenStack

It’s a heterogeneous, hybrid Cloud world, according to Tim Yeaton, SVP, Infrastructure Business Group at Red Hat, Inc. “It’s more than just the stateless workloads, it’s how you bring it all together,” Yeaton told theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s production team, at OpenStack Summit Vancouver 2015. Yeaton sees Red Hat’s OpenShift as “the culmination of all the things we’re ...

From traditional company to data-driven enterprise | #HPBigData2015

“I wanted to spend my money on engineers instead of licenses,” according to Kevin Goode, director of Platform Engineering for intelligent commerce company Inmar, Inc. Goode is a huge fan of open source. Describing Inmar as the “financial transaction middleman between retailers and manufacturers across three different lines of business,” he tells theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s Media production ...

Architecting the next generation: Day 2 at HP Big Data conference in Boston | #HPBigData2015

“Today we are talking to the guys that are architecting the next generation,” says Wikibon founder and theCUBE co-host Dave Vellante in a live broadcast for SiliconANGLE Media. Back for day two of the HP Big Data Conference 2015, theCUBE’s John Furrier and Vellante look forward to “a big day in Boston,” as well as ...

Etsy “going all in” with Kafka as dataflow pipeline | #HPBigData2015

Unifying multiple data sources and repositories is a challenge that Etsy, Inc. is solving with the Apache Kafka messaging system. Chris “CB” Bohn, senior database engineer for the Etsy online marketplace, tells theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s Media production team, at the HP Big Data Conference that having all data flowing through Kafka pipeline “makes it much easier, ...

DevOps meets Big Data at HP Big Data Conference; emphasis on developers | #HPBigData2015

Vertica has brought in heavy-duty “DevOps guys” to the HP Big Data Conference 2015, according to theCUBE’s John Furrier. When Hewlett-Packard Co. purchased Vertica, it did not pay it much attention. “It was this diamond in the rough, and they didn’t know what to do with it,” Furrier said. Thanks to HP’s CEO Meg Whitman, and the ...

The secrets to ‘Cloudification’ | #ODsummit

“SDN [software-defined networking] has been around a while but has had a little bit of a problem getting traction in the carrier space. But with the advent of NFV [network functions virtualization], it has become very obvious why we need SDN,” said Prodip Sen, CTO Network Functions Virtualization for Hewlett-Packard Co., during an interview with theCUBE at the ...