Ryan Stevens

Ryan is a senior writer covering live events with theCUBE. After an extensive academic career in engineering, he worked with dozens of tech startups developing new software and hardware products. He has also contributed to the content and documentation needs of companies such as Q4 Inc., PivIT Global and others.

Latest from Ryan Stevens

Twenty years in, Amazon S3 finds itself at the center of AWS’ push beyond storage

For Amazon Web Services Inc., this year’s Amazon S3 anniversary marks more than a milestone — it underscores S3’s rise from an internal utility to a pillar of cloud infrastructure and beyond. Commemorating the 20th Amazon S3 anniversary on March 14, the company is using Pi Day — the annual celebration of the mathematical constant ...

Telecom’s lofty AI ambitions hinge on breaking open proprietary radio networks

Artificial intelligence is driving an unprecedented surge in compute demand, but telecom operators face a structural barrier to capturing value from the shift: the proprietary technologies that control their own radio access networks. The industry’s push toward Open RAN is now intended to loosen that control and open the door to broader innovation. Telcos have historically ...

Telco transformation is coming — but people, not AI, will decide which enterprises win the race

Telecommunication companies are entering a new phase as artificial intelligence pushes networks toward software-driven architectures — but telco transformation may struggle more with internal change than with the technology itself. With all the enthusiasm around AI, there is also a recognition that while much is changing, telecom’s fundamental purpose — reliable, ubiquitous connectivity —  remains ...

The AI edge boom is giving telecom a new strategic role

Telecom edge AI is pushing intelligence closer to where data is created, making networks central to how information and inference move. That shift is creating new opportunities for providers to pair networking with compute and operations to deliver low-latency AI services. Telecom has a chance to turn its network position into a bigger market advantage ...

Brownsville’s edge AI experiment reimagines the economics of the connected city

Edge AI is becoming a defining telecom trend, as organizations favor lower-cost models that can act on data in real time. Meanwhile, private networks and local infrastructure are giving operators direct control over latency, data governance and service quality — a critical foundation for scaling AI-driven applications. But in the internet of things value chain, ...

AI at scale is demanding a fundamentally different data architecture

Organizations adopting artificial intelligence soon discover the twin challenges of AI-scale data performance and global data orchestration. At that level, only a unified data platform can control capacity and policy across distributed environments. Lack of centralized control forces organizations to rely on reactive capacity planning and siloed monitoring tools — introducing risk and escalating operational ...

The AI boom is turning flash storage into a critical infrastructure battleground

An AI-driven flash shortage is emerging as one of the defining infrastructure challenges of the machine learning boom. More than a problem solved by waiting out the typical hardware cycle, the shortage is forcing a larger rethink on how enterprises can get more from existing capacity. Unlike past supply crunches, this shortage is hitting even ...

Inside Cisco and Vast Data’s play to simplify — and secure — production-ready AI infrastructure

As enterprises race to deploy artificial intelligence, the focus is shifting from isolated tools to production-ready AI infrastructure that can deliver results at scale. In the process, companies are rethinking not just their technology architecture, but also the operating models needed to support AI in the real world. For Cisco Systems Inc. and Vast Data ...

5 ways Google Cloud partners are driving the next phase of enterprise AI

After years of scattered pilots, companies are adopting more disciplined approaches to artificial intelligence, guided by enterprise demands for proof, performance and productivity. At the forefront of this shift, Google Cloud partners are embedding agentic systems and modular platforms into core business operations — without sacrificing oversight. In practice, these partners are advancing AI innovation ...

Hospitals are fighting back as cyberattacks surge, embracing security-first initiatives

Hospital cybersecurity remains a top story as ransomware attacks continue to escalate. Because digital disruption from cybersecurity failures raises patient risk, the sector is being forced to treat cyber readiness as a public safety issue. Attacks surged during the pandemic, turning hospitals into prime targets, according to John Riggi (pictured, left), national advisor for cybersecurity and ...