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.

Latest from Heather Johnson

EMC moves forward with data protection, enterprise storage plans | #emcworld

Guy Churchward, president of EMC Corp.’s Core Technology Division, spoke with theCUBE during EMC World 2015 about the company’s hardware and software solutions. Churchward realized the company had a strong software foundation when he discovered that ninety-nine percent of his team’s engineers are software engineers. “We have a clear directive to say that we have ...

VMware channels the spirit of One Cloud into new architecture | #emcworld

VMware, Inc.’s new One Cloud, Any Application, Any Device architecture doesn’t actually employ one cloud. The notion, explains VMware CMO Robin Matlock, encompasses the spirit of what a customer wants the cloud to be. Creating a seamless hybrid Cloud   The architecture enables IT organizations to operate on- and off-premises Clouds as a single, unified environment. ...

QLogic expands reach to enterprise and the cloud | #emcworld

Prasad Rampalli, CEO of QLogic Corp., a leading data center networking and storage networking infrastructure solutions provider, as well as EMC Corp. strategic partner, plans to guide the company into new waters as it raises its presence in the cloud market. “We want to be the preeminent solutions provider for enterprise and cloud: simple in ...

EMC CIO seeking the cure for the legacy blues | #emcworld

EMC Corp. CIO Vic Bhagat sat down with theCUBE to discuss how EMC’s transformation to a more digitized workspace is helping him recover. For EMC, the digitization of business means harnessing data in a more efficient manner. “Everything is being consumed in a digital way,” he says. “There is an enormous amount of data. The question we ...

EMC transitions for the information generation | #emcworld

EMC Information Infrastructure CEO David Goulden laid out EMC’s plan for success during the keynote address that kicked off EMC World 2015 in Las Vegas. That plan includes incremental R&D investments and a stronger focus on cloud. It also includes the recent acquisition of VCE from Cisco Systems, Inc., which turned the EMC Federation into ...

Hackathon winners develop humanitarian app | #know15

  Ken Pruitt, IT Services administrator for LKQ/Keystone, teamed up with Scott Wyatt, CEO and founder of Advantage Integrated Solutions, Inc., and three others to develop what would become the winning customer entry in Knowledge15’s hackathon. App helps disaster relief victims   The winning app aims to help disaster relief victims by providing a platform ...

Rapid growth for ServiceNow and ITOM | #know15

Sri Chandrashekar, VP and general manager of the ITOM business unit of ServiceNow, spoke with theCUBE at ServiceNow’s Knowledge15 event in Las Vegas, about the rising role of IT Operations Management and the meteoric rise of ServiceNow.   Supporting the growing native Coud app market   A $28 billion market, according to Chandrashekar, ITOM encompasses ...

ServiceNow’s exploding business | #know15

  Since July 2013, when ServiceNow acquired Mirror42 and rebranded its product as ServiceNow Performance Analytics, business has exploded for ServiceNow. While the acquisition proved a huge asset, the transition didn’t come without challenges. Rebuilding product in platform   “We didn’t know the Mirror42 platform very well,” said Karel van der Poel, GM, Performance Analytics ...

AAA Allied overhauls IT with ServiceNow | #know15

  The CIO of AAA Allied Group, Rob Pickering, said that the company — the 12th largest AAA club in the United States — went through three different ITSM platforms before it arrived at ServiceNow. “We wanted a project management tool,” Pickering said in an interview with theCUBE at ServiceNow’s Knowledge15 event in Las Vegas. ...

The focus on exploring the ITSM marketplace is growing larger everyday | #know15

  Robert Young, research manager for endpoint device and ITSM at International Data Corporation (IDC), believes that IT departments need a laser-like focus on service awareness. Young analyzes how the cloud, mobile, social and Big Data impact IT systems and services. Attracting a bigger audience   “The ties to IT Operations Management (ITOM) are becoming ...