Devony Hof

Devony Hof is a SiliconANGLE writer covering live events with theCUBE. Growing up in a family of writers in Silicon Valley, she has long been interested in the intersection between technology and the arts. She graduated from Northwestern University in 2023 with a bachelor's degree in English Literature and Theatre. In her spare time, she enjoys writing plays, poetry and anything in between, as well as acting in theatre and film around the Chicago area.

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Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Okta’s Oktane event

Instead of joining in on the artificial intelligence spree, Okta Inc.’s approach to agentic AI has been focused on governance and the thoughtful implementation of an identity security fabric. At Okta’s Oktane 2025 event, the identity-management company announced the upcoming launch of Verifiable Digital Credentials, an open standard that enables users to issue and verify ...

Deloitte oversees dramatic shift in clients’ workflows with agentic AI

As a consulting firm, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. is on the ground of the agentic artificial intelligence revolution. The professional services company has a longstanding relationship with UiPath Inc. As agentic artificial intelligence has gained momentum — leading some to believe we are seeing the last generation of managers to lead exclusively human workforces — ...

Cato Networks shows how agentic AI delivers real ROI with focused use cases

In the first round of agentic AI applications, the most successful use cases have been narrow in scope and business-specific, as seen with Cato Networks Ltd.’s work on Zendesk. Cato Networks is a network security company with its own software-as-a-service platform. It recently used agentic AI to classify tickets — specific requests made through the ...

Inside the rise of photonic computing powering next-gen AI workloads

Artificial intelligence is spurring a revolution in data centers, and photonics are a part of it. Silicon photonics is a high-bandwidth alternative to traditional electronic chips. Lightmatter Inc., one of the leaders in this burgeoning space, aims to transform data centers and support the growing AI economy. “What we’re focused on is unlocking the interconnect ...

Dell builds momentum behind AI factories for the data center era

AI factories are redefining how intelligence is built, deployed and scaled — turning once-static infrastructure into dynamic production lines for data-driven innovation. As organizations look to harness their own information more effectively, they’re realizing the real advantage lies closer to home. With more than 83% of the world’s data still on-premises, Dell Technologies Inc. has ...

On theCUBE Pod: Bubble watch or boom cycle, AI hype meets political heat and big tech bets

Artificial intelligence may be the most powerful force reshaping modern industry — but some analysts warn it’s also inflating an AI bubble that could burst as fast as it grew. Despite political turmoil and a government shutdown, tech giants continue to pour billions into OpenAI Inc. and other generative AI ventures, chasing innovation at any ...

AI inference race accelerates with new sovereign cloud strategies

After raising $750 million in new funding, Groq Inc. is carving out a space for itself in the artificial intelligence inference ecosystem. Groq started out developing AI inference chips and has expanded on that with a system of software called GroqCloud. The company now exists in two markets: working with developers and innovators to power ...

From prompt to production: How AI-native startups are reshaping enterprise tech

Artificial intelligence is entering its AI-native chapter, where software is no longer confined to the pace or resources of traditional enterprises. Instead, a wave of innovation is being fueled by developers who can build production-ready systems in days, reshaping how the industry defines competitive advantage. What makes this moment distinct is the shift in the ...

Private AI gains momentum as enterprises rethink cloud strategies

Artificial intelligence models trained on proprietary data, also known as private AI, are on the rise. After migrating part of their data to the cloud, companies are finding that on-premises data centers better serve some of their needs. Cloudera Inc. looks to offer both options — cloud and on-prem — to its customers. “Historically, customers ...

UiPath and LlamaIndex team up to bring orchestration to the era of agentic AI

As artificial intelligence agents become a part of the business workflow, the orchestration of all the different human and nonhuman components grows more complex. Business automation platform company UiPath Inc. aims to simplify the process of building autonomous agents for enterprise. It supports multiple frameworks, including LlamaIndex Inc., which offers a toolkit for developing AI ...