Heather Johnson

Heather is a beat writer for SiliconANGLE's premier video production team theCUBE. She covers theCUBE events worldwide, spanning expert commentary on the hottest trends in IT.

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Docker founder discusses the industry and Project Orca | #DockerCon

Docker Inc. founder and CTO Solomon Hykes sat down with theCUBE during DockerCon 2015 to discuss the state of the technology industry and Docker’s place as it begins a serious uptick. Currently, the tools need to catch up with the technology. “Everyone expects their app to be online all the time, always working,” he said. ...

DockerCon is the ‘center of the universe for developers’ | #DockerCon

As the first day of DockerCon came to a close, theCUBE’s Stu Miniman deemed the conference the “center of the universe for developers.” If that’s the case, then the Cloud is the environment for that universe. As day two at DockerCon kicked off, theCUBE cohost John Furrier predicted that any company that’s not on the ...

Samsung aligns with Red Hat mobility platform | #RHSummit

Many Samsung customers still struggle to bring their businesses to the mobility space, according to Robin Bienfait, chief executive innovation officer for Samsung Business Services. “Leveraging the platform that Red Hat offers will allow us to bring that back end to the end user in the mobility domain,” she told theCUBE cohost Stu Miniman during ...

Technology doesn’t matter says Red Hat VP | #RHSummit

Does technology really matter? Craig Muzilla, Red Hat, Inc. senior vice president, Applications Platforms Business, kicked off his keynotes at Red Hat Summit 2015 asking attendees that very question. It’s an unusual question for a tech conference, and his answer was equally surprising: no. Digitization and convergence matter “What matters is not the technology itself, ...

Collaboration and engagement = Great customer experience | #RHSummit

Great customer experience should involve collaboration and engagement, according to Marco Bill-Peter, VP of Customer Experience and Engagement for Red Hat, Inc. “We made Red Hat consumable for the enterprise, but we also interact with customers in a collaborative way,” he told theCUBE during Red Hat Summit 2015. Every issue creates knowledge The man who ...

Red Hat technologist talks NFV innovations and an open source world | #RHSummit

Chris Wright, chief technologist for Red Hat, Inc., sat down with theCUBE cohosts Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman to discuss new developments in the open source world and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) in telecom networks. Red Hat’s NFV platform, which is built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack® Platform, is massively scalable and elastic, making ...

Docker creates collaborative products in a collaborative environment | #DockerCon

An open-source platform such as Docker comes with its own set of challenges and excitement, Marianna Tessel, Docker’s VP of Engineering, told theCUBE during DockerCon. “Docker is at the forefront of technology, it’s fast moving, all the great things you look for in a company,” she said. With 70 engineers out of a total staff ...

Lyft gets a lot of mileage out of Docker | #DockerCon

At ride-share company Lyft, Inc., new developers get up and running on their first day with the help of Docker. Docker “enables us to crank out features faster, get off engineering’s back and deliver actual customer-facing goods,” said Lyft Software Engineer Matthew Leventi. “We started using Docker in 2014 and have been steadily increasing our ...

Oracle sees momentum around Cloud | #datacenter

Just before Oracle’s announcement at its Oracle Cloud Launch yesterday, Steve Daheb, Oracle’s SVP of PaaS, BI, Mobile, Security and EPM Business Groups, sat down with theCUBE to discuss Oracle’s investment in Cloud offerings. To date, the company has seen impressive results from its Oracle Cloud Platform. “There is a great amount of momentum around ...

Oracle Cloud Platform allows hybrid integration | #datacenter

Speed and seamless integration make Oracle’s Cloud Platform an attractive option for customers with on-premise products and SaaS applications in the Cloud. “The challenge becomes how to seamlessly connect those on-premise assets to the assets that run in the Cloud,” Amit Zavery, Oracle’s senior VP of Integration Products, told theCUBE during the Oracle Cloud Platform ...