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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Dell stays ahead of the curve on data management solutions

Saying that artificial intelligence has complicated the world of data management would be an understatement. Companies are being forced to reckon with their previous data management policies and update them to match the demands of large language models. Dell Technologies Inc. aims to support customers in that journey. “People have been storing data for a ...

Collaboration between Dell, Broadcom and Denvr focuses on AI factories of tomorrow

What does artificial intelligence or AI factories of the future look like? That is the question Denvr Dataworks Inc., Broadcom Inc. and Dell Technologies Inc. aim to answer with their combined computing and cooling hardware. AI requires a massive amount of compute, so power and efficiency are key for the construction of modern data centers. ...

Cooling evolution: How Direct Liquid technology powers sustainable data centers

It’s back to the future when it comes to cooling data center servers. In the era of mainframes, liquid cooling was an important method to cool silicon. But when the microprocessor took over to power general purpose computing, air cooled systems went mainstream. Today’s data centers have been outfitted mostly with air cooled infrastructure but ...

Savvy swag: The coolest goodies from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA

Conference swag encompasses far more than T-shirts these days. At North America’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024, attendees can pick up anything from ski goggles to Sri Lankan tea to baby Yodas. Savannah Peterson, host and analyst for theCUBE, featured some of the event’s best pieces of swag, representing the attending companies’ diverse offerings. “It means ...

Salesforce’s Heroku platform open-sources Twelve Factor project

Kubernetes has revolutionized applications, and Salesforce Inc. is keeping up with the times by open-sourcing its Twelve Factor project off of the Heroku platform, a platform as a service that allows developers to create, deploy and manage applications entirely in the cloud. Heroku created Twelve Factor over a decade ago. The company is open-sourcing it now in ...

Dynatrace leans into trusted reputation with data observability platform

Adopting generative artificial intelligence in a secure way can be a difficult journey for many customers, with data observability being a crucial factor in monitoring AI models. Dynatrace LLC has deep roots in data observability, driving AI advancements with its OpenTelemetry (OTel) observability project and Davis CoPilot, an AI engine for increasing productivity. However, gen AI ...

Aviatrix prepares companies for a ‘cloud 2.0 strategy’

In the era of generative artificial intelligence, multicloud networking is essential. Enterprise companies are entering a new stage of cloud architecture, according to Anirban Sengupta (pictured), chief technology officer of engineering at Aviatrix Systems Inc. The company recently announced Aviatrix Cloud Network Security Platform-as-a-Service, enabling customers to simplify their multicloud networking in a secure manner. ...

Intel embraces open-source ethos with AI microservices platform

Open-source artificial intelligence projects are gaining popularity, and Intel Corp. is taking advantage of the momentum with their composable AI platform. Open Platform for Enterprise AI, or OPEA, was launched by Intel this year as a vendor-neutral project with the Linux Foundation. Its potential is immense, according to Arun Gupta (pictured), vice president and general manager ...

Red Hat modernizes virtual workload infrastructure on new platform

Open-source powerhouse Red Hat Inc. is offering OpenShift Virtualization on its artificial intelligence development platform to help customers with their virtual machine workloads. The company has released a series of enhancements to its AI services, but according to Mike Barrett (pictured left), vice president and general manager of hybrid cloud platforms at Red Hat, customers are ...

Navigating the AI scramble: A roadmap to effective enterprise AI strategy

Companies now have to look long term when it comes to the ongoing artificial intelligence trend, with a focus on developing an overarching enterprise AI strategy. Nutanix Inc. aims to support customers’ entire AI infrastructure with software that allows them to deploy AI models in a hybrid environment, with an eye toward machine learning’s game-changing ...