Sam Weston

Bringing more than a decade of varying experience crossing multiple sectors, including as legal, financial and tech, Sam Weston is an accomplished professional that excels in ensuring success across various industries. Currently, Sam serves as an Industry Analyst at theCUBE Research, where she collaborates closely in the areas of application modernization, DevOps, storage and infrastructure and brings deep expertise in the systems that power modern enterprises, such as ERP, CRM, HCM, CX and beyond. With a keen eye for research, Sam produces valuable insights and custom content to support strategic initiatives and enhance market understanding. Rooted in the fields of tech, law, finance operations and marketing, Sam provides a unique viewpoint to her position, fostering innovation and delivering impactful solutions within the industry. Sam holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems and Business Analytics from Colorado State University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Louisiana State University. She is passionate about leveraging her diverse skill set to drive growth and empower clients to succeed.

Latest from Sam Weston

Decision intelligence takes center stage in telecom AI modernization

Market data predicts that by 2027, more than 50% of business decisions will be augmented or automated by AI-driven decision intelligence platforms. That shift reflects a structural transition from insight generation to outcome orchestration. In the latest episode of theCUBE Research’s AppDevANGLE podcast, Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst at theCUBE Research, spoke with Sreedhar Rao, global ...

Open-source complexity is rising — managed platforms may be the missing link

Open-source software has become the backbone of modern application infrastructure. From distributed databases to event streaming platforms, technologies such as Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka and PostgreSQL increasingly power the digital services that organizations rely on every day. But as adoption accelerates, a new operational challenge is emerging: managing these technologies at production scale. According to ...

Inside Dynatrace and DevCycle’s push to close the observability gap for agentic software development

As organizations race to ship software at a breakneck pace, a critical friction point has emerged at the intersection of development and operations. While developers have embraced feature flags to decouple deployments from releases, they have largely been flying blind when it came to the runtime impact of those changes. At Dynatrace Perform 2026 in ...

Twilio and AEG bring real-time personalization to live sports and entertainment

As live sports and entertainment evolve beyond ticketing and sponsorship models, real-time personalization is emerging as a core requirement for fan engagement. What fans increasingly expect (i.e., tailored experiences that adapt before, during and after events) is forcing venue operators and platform teams to rethink engagement as a data and application platform problem, not just ...

Defining sovereign AI for the enterprise era

As enterprises and governments race to control their data, models and compliance obligations, sovereign AI infrastructure is emerging as both a technical and geopolitical imperative. In the latest episode of theCUBE Research’s AppDevANGLE podcast, Sudeep Goswami, chief executive officer of Traefik Labs Inc., joined theCUBE and SiliconANGLE’s Paul Nashawaty to unpack what “true sovereignty” means ...

The case for governed, ephemeral developer environments in the age of AI

The rise of artificial intelligence coding tools, coupled with increasing pressure to accelerate application delivery, is forcing enterprises to rethink their developer environments. Traditional models built on local machines, static virtual machines and siloed toolchains are proving too slow, too inconsistent and too expensive for the demands of modern software development, according to theCUBE Research’s ...

The case for internet performance monitoring in a consolidated observability strategy

The growing complexity of modern digital infrastructure demands a smarter observability strategy. As businesses expand their use of cloud, software-as-a-service, content delivery networks and globally distributed networks, ensuring performance, uptime and reliability is becoming more challenging — and more essential — than ever, according to theCUBE Research’s Paul Nashawaty. In today’s enterprise environments, tool consolidation ...