Teryn O'Brien

Teryn O’Brien is a staff writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. After working in publishing at Penguin Random House, Teryn launched her own freelance business to help organizations and individuals tell their stories through photography, writing, video, and online marketing strategy. She enjoys mentoring writers and storytellers and spends her free time hiking, writing books, and drinking too much tea.

Latest from Teryn O'Brien

Q&A: Cyber resiliency starts with cyber culture: Insights from Mercury Financial’s cybersecurity leaders

During the recent Fal.Con event, CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. announced new Cloud Native Application Protection Platform capabilities for its CrowdStrike Cloud Security line of products. These capabilities offer new features like Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management, which helps enterprises prevent identity-based threats resulting from improperly configured cloud entitlements across cloud service providers. So how are these new capabilities affecting actual businesses? Anthony Cunha (pictured, ...

Q&A: Inside CrowdStrike’s partnership with Cyber Defense Labs

Last September, global cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. launched its CrowdStrike Powered Service Provider Program. One of its “Elite Partners” in the initiative is Cyber Defense Labs LLC, which helps businesses navigate cybersecurity risk and threats. This partnership is bringing expanded market opportunities for Cyber Defense Labs — delivered in the CrowdStrike Falcon cloud-native platform, which provides features ...

Cloud-native storage solutions for modern apps

Modern apps are the key to competitiveness, but traditional storage can’t keep up — especially when cloud-native solutions are becoming increasingly important. Pure Storage Inc. acquired Portworx at the end of 2020 to help solve this problem, because it’s clear that cloud-native will continue to expand, according to Murli Thirumale (pictured), vice president and general ...

Q&A: Managing cloud infrastructure costs for smarter decisions

While many enterprises understand that cloud is an essential part of a business model, they also understand that managing cloud costs is difficult. Nearly 50% of cloud infrastructure spend is unaccounted for, according to Yotascale Inc., which leaves engineers without the data they need to take ownership of their cloud infrastructure costs and make smarter ...

Sensors provide security tracking for Kubernetes environments

Kubernetes naturally introduces new variables into the digital landscape, creating potential vulnerabilities and highlighting the need for security. So what are the nuances of building a Kubernetes-based environment that is actually secure? Deepfence Inc. has been creating a unique solution. “Kubernetes grows, it scales, it’s elastic, and the perimeter around a Kubernetes application is very, very ...

Companies learn how to thrive in the cloud after speedy digital transformations

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many enterprises were thrust into the world of cloud before they were truly ready to do so. There was no choice but to survive. Now, however, companies are reevaluating how they will use cloud moving forward, and SoftwareOne AG is helping enterprises come out of survival mode and learn to ...
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‘Intersecting tech’ and how to navigate the data-driven path

No matter which industry someone is in, both individuals and entire companies are waking up to the reality that data must play a primary role in both career and business strategies moving forward. Tia Dubuisson (pictured), co-founder and president Belle Fleur Technologies Inc., believes that helping individuals and business become more data driven is extremely important, and ...

The three pillars of observability: How valid are they?

Many believe that the “three pillars of observability” — logs, metrics and traces — are generally the important types of data for observing applications or infrastructure. Ian Smith (pictured), field chief technology officer of Chronosphere Inc., however, believes these three pillars get overly emphasized. “What do you do with that? There’s no action there. It’s ...

Q&A: Cockroach Labs, Authzed stress the importance of distributed SQL databases

As companies choose the right database to build their services on for cloud-native services, the idea of a distributed database is a hot topic. Cockroach Labs Inc., which offers a distributed SQL database that is highly scalable, reliable and resilient, and one of its customers, Authzed Inc., are convinced that distributed databases on open source are the ...

Q&A: Red Hat addresses complex cloud security issues

When it comes to the accelerated advancement of technology implementation like Kubernetes containers, cloud adoption and app modernization — security conversations are at an all-time high as enterprises address complex security issues that mean changing the way its been done in the past. Red Hat Inc. has been addressing these security issues through a recently ...