Brian Njuguna

Brian is a staff writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. He has written for a variety of publications, including Blockchain.News and Capital.com. Brian has a penchant for technological innovations, including blockchain, cloud computing, data science, and cryptocurrencies, as he believes that they will reign supreme as the world gears toward the Fourth Industrial Revolution. He loves to attend rugby sporting events, travel, and listen to music. Brian lives in Nairobi, Kenya, and holds a bachelor’s of economics and statistics from Kenyatta University.

Latest from Brian Njuguna

American Airlines tames Kubernetes complexity: The emerging role of platform engineering

Even though Kubernetes enhances development efficiency by offering a structure to run distributed networks resiliently, the complexity can be challenging. Platform engineering helps by taming the complexity and heavy lifting, as it addresses DevOps at scale and aligns business objectives with development practices, according to Haseeb Budhani (pictured, right), co-founder and chief executive officer of ...

The push for cloud-native observability: Chronosphere goes beyond the single-pane-of-glass approach

As companies continue being cloud-native, developers are drowning in data, and this is significantly compromising their productivity. Chronosphere Inc. is addressing this pain point with Chronosphere Lens, which analyzes all of the raw observability data “underneath the covers” and then extrapolates insights and knowledge from that raw data. Later on, Chronosphere Lens presents this information to ...
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AI requires going beyond reinventing the wheel for a seamless experience

With artificial intelligence becoming a commodity as enterprises realize they have to incorporate this cutting-edge technology, compatibility is of the essence. And that’s true from the cultural to the hardware approach, as well as the methodologies adopted, according to Frederic Van Haren (pictured), founder and chief technology officer of HighFens Inc. “One big thing we ...
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From convergence to transformation: Gen AI’s impact on business speed

Generative artificial intelligence is proving to be a game-changer that is complementing other technologies to give enterprises faster and more optimal results, according to Scott Likens, global AI and innovation technology leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers United States. “We’ve talked about this convergence,” said Likens (pictured). “We study something called the Essential Eight, the emerging technologies we think ...
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Unlocking enterprise value: Harnessing AI to tackle unstructured data challenges

In today’s data-rich landscape, harnessing the untapped potential of unstructured data has become a pressing concern for enterprises thanks to the latent value it holds — and with 90% of data within organizations lacking structure, artificial intelligence is stepping in to bridge the gap. This transformative technology is unlocking the value of unstructured data by ...
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Snowflake’s AI integration: Vector indexing and language models unleashed

With artificial intelligence taking the world by storm, unconventional approaches are expected to push AI adoption beyond the evaluation phase. While large language models seem to work magic with consumer-ready summary blogs, data authenticity has much higher stakes when it comes to generative application development. To this end Snowflake Inc. devised a technique called Retrieval Augmented ...

The need for a cloud-first strategy: How Teradata and AWS are migrating analytic workloads for better insights

With modernization being top of mind for enterprises, the cloud is emerging as a safe bet. To enable highly scalable analytic insights, Teradata Corp. is enabling fast and reliable data migrations to the cloud — in partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc., according to Nimit Jain (pictured, left), head of artificial intelligence at AWS. Teradata’s Vantage platform ...

How Opus is helping frontline workers gain a competitive edge through blended learning

Given that frontline workers play a critical role in the business world, enhancing their proficiency is critical. Since frontline workers face the ongoing problem of not being able to effectively enhance their skillset, Opus Training Inc. serves as a tech savvy platform that enables them to be successful through blended learning, with the larger business ...

HCLTech and VMware tackle cloud chaos using a CloudSMART approach

With nearly 70% of organizations struggling with multicloud complexity, cloud chaos has become a major headache that requires an out-of-the-box approach. Given that the cloud is the new norm, HCL Technologies Ltd. and VMware Inc. came up with a well-planned and strategic approach to multicloud and digital transformation meant to tame cloud chaos called CloudSMART, ...

VMware integrates security and operational efficiency into end-user computing

As hybrid work continues to be the norm in the post-pandemic era, enterprises have to grapple with the reality of dealing with the complexity of multiple users and workloads. Based on a renewed focus on end users because they are no longer confined in office spaces, VMware Inc. offers seamless end-user computing through enhanced experience, ...