Kristina Farrah

A ninja, a tech enthusiast and a lover of sparkly things. Writing in the tech space has become an important part of my role as an observer and historian. As passionate as I am in what I do, I look forward to telling stories of how technological advancement broke out to unprecedented levels, and that I was right there in the middle of it –watching the world change before my very eyes.

Latest from Kristina Farrah

kWIQly Helps Buildings Save 1.5 Trillion Dollars In Energy Per Year

One of our guests at The Cube is James Ferguson, CEO of kWIQly. The very first thing we noticed about this startup is the rather interesting spelling of its company, which Ferguson explained right away; kW stands for kilowatts, IQ for intelligence, and ly for quickly.

Design in Micro-Interactions: Perceived Simplicity vs. Functionality

During the second day of SiliconAngle’s coverage at O’Reilly Fluent, we came across Dan Saffer, Director of Interactive Design at Smart Designs. He’s also an author and has recently published his fourth book called Microinteractions. It talks about the small details, small pieces of functionality around the big features that designers tend to forget, though ...

Splunk Predates Big Data, Can Derive Meaning from Minecraft, and It Can Save Lives Too

Another big name in the tech industry that we had the chance to interview at O’Reilly Fluent Conference was Paul Sanford, GM for Products, Developer Platform & Windows at Splunk.

As CIO : Start with Something You Know + Don’t Make End Users Choose, Says Equinox CIO

As theCube was extracting signal from the noise at ServiceNow Knowledge, we’re happy to have chat with Brian Lillie, CIO of Equinox.

Appcelerator Enterprise Platform Launch Wrap-Up

SiliconAngle correspondent Jeff Fricks was at Mountain View, California to cover the launch of Appcelerator Enterprise Platform, a comprehensive mobile enterprise platform that enables businesses to create, deliver and analyze their entire mobile application portfolio. It really embraces the transformational opportunity that mobility provides to the enterprise.

MapR On Cloud: It’s a Greenfield + Rivals Onboard at Different Speeds

SiliconAngle’s founding Editor Mark “rizzn” Hopkins was at Google IO 2013 to cover one of the biggest conferences for developers. At the event, we’re pleased to have Jabari Norton of MapR for an interview.

Open Source is a Mindset, says Appcelerator CEO

While covering the launch of Appcelerator Enterprise Platform at Mountain View, we’re happy to have a short chat with Jeff Haynie, co-founder and CEO of Appcelerator.

Ventures Capitalists Love Profitable Companies That Don’t Need Money

The Cube headed over to Stanford University for the school’s 17th annual Accel Symposium. There, we had the chance to speak with keynote speakers Lynda Weinman, co-founder and executive chairman of Lynda.com, and Bud Colligan of Accel Partners and also currently a member of Lynda.com’s board.

Breaking Analysis: Arista, HP, & Brocade Advance Software-Defined Networking

WikiBon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman is featured in SiliconAngle’s Breaking Analysis to talk about the latest in Internet switches and software-defined networking. There have been a few physical switch announcements that happened this week from Arista, HP, and Brocade. SDN and Software are currently the buzz in the networking scene!

What’s Flash Mean for the Everyday IT Guy?

Today at FlashCUBE, David Floyer shares his thoughts on client’s perspective about flash, as well as flash-related issues that an IT person deals with on a daily basis.