Diego Asturias

Meet D. Asturias the geek, a passionate SiliconANGLE writer covering live events with theCUBE. As a kid, Diego discovered his curiosity in technology by breaking his parent’s cassette radios, going on to experiment in the areas of gaming, cybersecurity and wireless hardware. Diego has worked as an engineer, researcher and journalist, traveling the globe to research wireless sensor networks in South Korea and aid in the installation of one African country’s first LTE mobile network. Got a news tip? Please tweet us @siliconangle.

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Q&A: Automation helps energy company reduce conflict and enhance the culture

Business conflicts are inevitable. Disagreements and finger-pointing eventually happen within organizations, leading to lower productivity and business disruptions. But in today’s digital world, improving culture and creating peaceful workplaces within enterprises is now possible with a single click of a button. Southern Co., a top energy provider, has been automating certain workflows that help the company resolve ...

Q&A: New Relic One advances application performance monitoring

It would be nearly impossible to use legacy monitoring practices in the new hybrid cloud deployments or dynamic microservices architectures. Modern software development teams know this, and have evolved the way they keep track of their applications and infrastructure. Now, these teams are leveraging observability capabilities.   The application performance monitoring space is changing. DevOps teams no longer ...

Q&A: Culture as important as tech, says CTO

On the quest for agile software development and delivery, the team should always come first. Because while the market hosts an abundance of robust tools that can streamline product development, there is nothing that beats human cognition and collaboration. A team of developers that can work well together, can turn the tables around, according to Phil Finucane (pictured), former ...
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Q&A: Data isn’t the new oil anymore, it’s the new software

“Data is the new oil” is a popular phrase hailing back to big data’s buzzy years circa 2006. After all, tech’s giants including Facebook Inc. and Google LLC have made billion dollar businesses on user data, developing software to run some of the world’s most sophisticated advertising platforms.  As it turns out, the software-driven opportunities with data are countless. Using predictive ...

Q&A: High-performance flash is key to unlocking data-intense AI workloads

Artificial-intelligence workloads are intrinsically data-intensive. They need massive amounts of information to train models, running infinite scenarios for accurate predictions. Thus, storage becomes a key consideration for running powerful AI applications, able to run where the data resides, even across varied and distributed computing environments. Flash storage sees multi-dimensional performance that can take any size of file or workload and ...

Q&A: The more data you give, the more insights you shall receive

Artificial-intelligence and machine-learning models go by the saying, “The more you give, the more you receive.” So, it is not about having the latest and best AI/ML prediction models, but about having a large and high-quality data set. Without enough data to feed an AI/ML model, they become pointless. Acquiring data becomes one of the ...
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Q&A: The realities of quantum computing, effects on cybersecurity

Although it sounds like something from a sci-fi movie, quantum computers will have the power to predict Earth’s climate and also encrypt/decrypt any security algorithm out there. Without a doubt, quantum computers are becoming a reality. But will they pose a threat to cybersecurity?  Research is being pushed at IBM to improve the cyber resiliency ...

Q&A: Equinix, VMware team-up tackles enterprise hybrid-cloud demands

When it comes to digital transformations, does an enterprise choose single cloud or on-premises servers? What about a hybrid multicloud solution where data and applications are stored and deployed in their best respective environments? A place where your computing infrastructure is running at its highest peak and operational level? Global colocation data center company Equinix Inc. just ...

Q&A: Why 52% of Veritas customers are choosing a hybrid-cloud environment

Although legacy infrastructure for information technology is not going away anytime soon, the trends are steering the entire industry in a new direction. The tendency towards hybrid multicloud architecture is changing everything, creating waves of demand in data management, protection and storage.  Data management and storage company Veritas Technologies LLC is adjusting to these trends. ...

Q&A: Evolution of all-flash storage bonds Pure Storage, VMware alliance

As the enterprise storage market continues to evolve, all-flash data storage company Pure Storage Inc. aims to leverage its partnerships to boost its growth. The company just announced its Q2 financial results, which saw a 28% year on year growth, according to Vaughn Stewart (pictured), vice president of technology alliances at Pure Storage. “We are, by far, the ...