R. Danes

R. Danes is a senior writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, who is based on the East Coast. Her fondness for old media and longform journalism converges with an interest in new media and digital content trends. Exploring digital disruption in the realm of publications, articles and writing led her to writing articles about digital disruption everywhere. Find R. Danes on Twitter @DanesRd. Got a news tip? Please tweet us @siliconangle.

Latest from R. Danes

The numbers behind virtualization’s real impact on the environment | #theCUBE

Virtualization is good for more than business; turns out it’s good for the planet, too. In its VMware Global Impact Report, VMware Inc. gave hard numbers on how its virtualized technology products are impacting the environment. The cut in CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent) enabled by virtualization in 2015 was equivalent to taking 14 million cars off the ...

Amazon deal is not the be-all, end-all in VMware’s cloud strategy, says CMO | #theCUBE

When Amazon Web Services and VMware Inc. announced their landmark partnership recently, it was deemed by many to be the launch of an unstoppable dual force in cloud. What combination of VMware and cloud could compete with a VMware-Amazon double-threat? According to VMware, its Cross-Cloud-Architecture is rich with alternative choices for customers — including those who would ...

Will VMware’s Workspace ONE spark mobile innovation’s Act II? | #theCUBE

The consensus is that cloud still loses to on-prem as far as maximum security goes; as important as security is to an organization, no one is citing this as a reason to halt migration to cloud. Now that the world has reached the point of no return with cloud or hybrid IT, the market for improved ...

Can automatic data warehouses speed up big data progress for companies? | #reInvent

Even with all the innovation around data, moving it around the network is still a slower process than companies would like. The problem is that as big data snowballs (no pun intended) to colossal proportions, dealing with it piecemeal becomes impractical. Setting up whole data centers in which to store the data is necessary, and ...

Infrastructure ROI: Businesses get lucrative makeover after lift and shift to cloud | #reInvent

Businesses who flock to Amazon cloud with the goal of simplifying infrastructure may find that moving their data there is not the cakewalk they thought it would be. Amazon Web Services seems to be on a split mission to be the simplest and most advanced, which just resulted in 1,000 announcements of new tweaks to ...

Is one-to-many replication the disaster recovery answer in the multi-cloud world? | #reInvent

The imperative to move to cloud is challenging enough for companies struggling to make the initial move off-premise. Then there are analysts and vendors saying companies should spread assets across multiple clouds and shuttle data between them. In the event of a disaster, will all of this data in flux be recoverable? Joshua Stenhouse, technical evangelist at Zerto Ltd., and ...

Don’t get carried away: When to leave IoT data at the edge | #HPEDiscover

As companies struggle to break the networking bottleneck, the question of how to process Internet of Things data hangs in the air. Moving tons of data from sensors to the cloud over current networks is proving to be time consuming and costly. On the other hand, progress in compute power keeps zooming ahead. Some say ...

Breaking down HPE’s The Machine: What can open memory fabric really do for apps? | #HPEDiscover

It’s storage … it’s a processor — no, it’s The Machine, HPE’s new multi-purpose technological thingamajig. Some in tech are grappling with The Machine, finding it awkward to grok exactly what it is and why people should care. We asked one of the brains behind The Machine to explain (in English) how it really translates to current markets and ...

Getting the edge: Can HPE take the IoT market with this triple play? | #HPEDiscover

Despite ventures into services and solutions, some still see HPE struggling to find its bearings outside hardware. Will the legacy company always be playing catch-up with the trendy cloud and SaaS vendors? Or could its ambitious move into Internet of Things see them take the lead in that sphere? Tom Bradicich, Ph.D., VP and GM, Server ...

Will we all need semi trucks to move data to the cloud? | #reInvent

To demonstrate its commitment to moving vast amounts of data to the cloud, Amazon Web Services rolled out an actual 18-wheel truck called the Snowmobile at this year’s AWS re:Invent conference. The point was that moving huge amounts of data around is not easy, but Amazon Web Services has the ways and means to accomplish ...