Rachel Schramm

Rachel Schramm is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE. She often covers conference segments and is particularly interested in the way Big Data can help civic, educational, environmental, and earth science organizations gain a better understanding of the world in which we live. Rachel is a world traveler but currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Latest from Rachel Schramm

What’s a Citizen Analyst and where’s that leave journalists? | #EMCWorld

At EMC World 2014, Stu Miniman hosted an interview with Amy Lewis and John Troyer, two of the three-member team behind the GeekWhisperers podcast, and established community builders within the tech sector.  Lewis runs influence marketing at CISCO and  Troyer is founder of the website TechReckoning. Miniman’s first question for them was to ask about ...

SolidFire on Openstack’s maturity, role in converged infrastructure | #openstacksummit

In their second interview on day two of the OpenStack Summit 2014, theCUBE co-hosts Dave Furrier and Stu Miniman, with SolidFire CEO Dave Wright discussed overall shifts in cloud infrastructure, challenges and highlights of OpenStack, and how SolidFire is blossoming in the market. Wright answered Furrier’s first question, a request for an update on what ...

How one filmmaker uses OpenStack to be a “superlative technologist” | #openstacksummit

At the #openstacksummit 2014, Stu Miniman and John Furrier, theCUBE co-hosts, interviewed Guillaume Aubuchon, CTO of DigitalFilm Tree to get his take on how OpenStack is serving the film industry. Furrier first asked Aubuchon to talk about how he first found his way to OpenStack and cloud storage as a filmmaker. Aubuchon explained that just under ...

How virtualization makes IT expansion less costly | #EMCWorld

At EMC World 2014, Jeff Frick interviewed Dan Allensworth, Coach of Technology Services at Johnsonville Sausage in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Johnsonville has been in business since 1945 and operates six facilities in the United States. They distribute through all 50 U.S. states and to 30 countries around the world. Allensworth commented with pride, “Four out of ...

How converged infrastructure migrates you from public to private cloud | #EMCWorld

On theCUBE at EMC World 2014, Dave Vellante began his interview with the Apollo Group’s  Charles Preston and Christian Lewis by asking  how they came into their roles as cloud architects. Preston responded that a few years ago, they noticed a shift in the IT world: “Whatever kind of silo you were in wasn’t going ...

How converged infrastructure has changed architecture solutions | #EMCworld

At EMC World 2014, Dave Vellante invited two Presidio execs, Dave Hart, COO, and Vinu Thomas, VP of solutions and one of the lead architects, to theCUBE. They discussed the impact converged infrastructure has had on Presidio and how the company’s products fit in with the overall cloud landscape. In his first question, Vellante asked ...

The software renaissance: Simplicity and distribution | #EMCworld

At the EMC World 2014 conference, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellente talked with Amitabh Srivastava, President of Advanced Software Division at EMC, to get his take on upcoming changes to the software industry. Throughout the interview, Srivastava stressed his belief that as hardware becomes more and more complex, “the one who makes it ...

CMA’s path to lower costs and query response times simultaneously | #EMCworld

CMA consulting began providing information technology services in 1984. Thirty years later, they host data warehouses and analytics and deliver products that include Oracle RAC clusters and a VQ big data product. At the EMC World 2014 conference in Las Vegas, theCUBE hosts Dave Vallente and John Furrier interviewed CMA chief architect Brian Dougherty to ...