Kimberly Margaine

Kimberly Margaine is currently a SiliconANGLE writer covering live events with theCUBE. She got her start with the Baltic Times, an English language newspaper in Lithuania where she wrote hard news, features and entertainment. Kimberly has worked in technology, media and non-profit outlets in the Washington, D.C., area for more than 10 years. She was an editor at the Washington Times and the World Bank. She has also been a technology consultant for the private industry. Kimberly loves writing about gardening, farming and cooking. She has a blog site www.kimberlymargaine.com where she writes about her adventures in working at Heyser Farms in Colesville, Maryland.

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As Dell EMC ‘re-examines’ what it’s good at, digital transformation seems a natural fit

Now that the dust has settled in the merger between technology titans Dell and EMC, the new family of products and services is collectively addressing customers with digital transformation beyond just computing infrastructure. Promoting systems of engagement and data-driven insight, Dell EMC is eagerly moving the needle forward. “We’ve seen these pendulum swings, centralized, decentralized, ...

Dell EMC’s united ecosystem translates to real digital transformations for customers

Dell Technologies Inc.’s commercial business is cranking out 3,000 accounts around the globe — that’s including public sector, some federal sector, and even the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Europe. Marius Haas, president and chief commercial officer of Dell, is all smiles. “We’re very pleased with the progress we’re making,” he said. “The transformation stories ...

Reducing wasteful spending with edge computing

Go back 10 years or so to the wild west days of data centers, when businesses were busily focused on buying up single computing racks. As time went by, mega-giant retailers like eBay faced quite the conundrum with their online outlets — rapid growth led to countless servers, making it increasingly difficult to scale the management and optimization of data ...

How FieldCore’s data was rescued from Hurricane Irma’s wrath

In the late summer of 2017, Hurricane Irma blew into Florida. Just days within the storm’s predicted touchdown in the heart of the Tampa Bay area, FieldCore’s production systems lay in its path. “We weren’t prepared for it,” said Kerry “KJ” Johnson, senior systems engineer at FieldCore Service Solutions LLC, a General Electric company that ...

Future-proofing storage with Dell’s new PowerMax

Intelligent storage is a new trend for Dell Technologies Inc.’s family of technologies, where data scientists are building algorithms for data insight and, in the process, reducing lag time and creating overall better business decisions. With contributions from technology acquired through the Dell EMC merger, the old VMAX line of storage appliances is being upgraded and ...

Dell EMC’s integrative journey to boost software-defined networking offerings

The myriad of cloud, hybrid cloud and public cloud solutions can overwhelm enterprise customers searching for the right networking products that need to work seamlessly with software-heavy computing environments. Add in the mix of traditional, on-premises data centers, and confusion can prevail in the emerging software-defined world of networking. “The whole world’s moving to software-defined,” said Tom ...

Genome sequencing tech is ripe for gaming, social sciences

The modern health revolution toward precision medicine and gene-specific treatments starts at UC Santa Cruz School of Engineering laboratories, with pioneering scientists who cracked the human genome code in 2003. Years later, the famous lab is expanding its work to help personalize gaming and social sciences. “Santa Cruz is famous for one particular thing — ...

Driverless vehicle ecosystem strives to overcome data storage challenges

Disruption in the automotive industry continues to move at a fast pace, driven by heavy investment in self-driving cars and high hopes. With global market revenue expected to exceed $125 billion by 2027, autonomous vehicles will need dedicated technology systems in the coming years. From wireless networking to artificial intelligence, the flocks of cars coming ...

Network ops comes to the rescue for internet crashes at Stanford

As Stanford University continues to build and boom, Rowell Dionicio, network engineer at Stanford University, is busily working on the bugs that clog up speed and connectivity with the campus’ growing number of wirelessly connected devices. “It’s a tough one to crack. I hear those complaints, I get them, and I try to fix them as quickly ...

Coupling APIs for problem-solvers and the programmable network

Susie Wee knows how to tie business and technology with software services, and more importantly she knows how to bring these applications to the market. Her job as vice president and chief technology officer of DevNet at Cisco Systems Inc. isn’t easy — Wee is the bridge between the software code written by developers and the networking ...