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.

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Pax8 helps fix ‘broken’ distribution for the cloud

As technology evolves into cloud solutions, legacy distribution is failing to deliver effectively for cloud solutions and more modern distribution needs. Companies have had bad experiences buying cloud products from traditional distributors because of the brokenness of the systems in place, which were not built for the cloud. So what are the solutions? “The traditional ...

Hyperscale computing changing the internet service provider market

Structure Research Ltd. is an independent research and consulting firm founded in 2012 that has a defined niche of analyzing infrastructure services — especially internet infrastructure. “We’d describe ourselves as a smaller-focused boutique research firm,” said Philbert Shih (pictured), founder and managing director of Structure Research. “We live and breathe on a daily basis the life of ...

Formula 1 uses data, AI, and virtual reality to enhance racing, fan experience

When it comes to technology, Formula 1’s single-seater, auto racing cars are always pushing the envelope on instrumentation, data, and real-time telemetry. The ROKiT Williams Racing F1 Team is one of those F1 teams leading the way with cutting-edge usage of the cloud, data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to turn their cars into true internet of things devices. ...

Q&A: AWS to offer internships through Bahrain’s Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs

It’s estimated that 10,000 data solution architects will be needed across Bahrain in the next five years, and Amazon Web Services Inc. is working to help fill the void with its Educate program, a global initiative to provide students and educators with the resources needed to accelerate cloud-related learning. In fact, 2,300 young Bahrainis signed up for the ...

Q&A: Growing ERP in the age of digital transformation

The global enterprise resource planning market is expected to grow from USD 32.44 billion in 2017 to USD 49.03 billion by 2023. According to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., an IT consulting firm, ERP is core to digital transformation — and the company is partnering with IFS AB, a company that delivers enterprise software for customers around ...

Pure Storage celebrates 10 years; founder and CTO weighs in on storage industry

Pure Storage Inc. is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2019 — a huge accomplishment given the transitory nature of many tech startups — and it has achieved over $1 billion in annual sales. So why has Pure Storage been successful, and where does the company see itself in the future? “One of the things we’ve tried ...

Q&A: This acquisition is helping VMware enhance AI, 5G for mobile carrier networks

VMware Inc.’s acquisition of Uhana Inc. in July allowed VMware to tap into deep artificial intelligence and machine learning experience specific to mobile carrier networks and their operations. Uhana will help to power the VMware Service Assurance portfolio, enabling VMware to offer end-to-end integrated service monitoring and network management. “Some of the parameters, in terms of what ...

Q&A: Data, cloud-native application security crucial to the future of business

As data becomes an asset more and more crucial to enterprise business operations, the world of data protection and management continues to evolve. “The key word in data protection is data, and I think that wherever it is created and wherever it is managed … customers need to look after it,” said Rob Emsley (pictured, left), ...

Q&A: VMware, Dell EMC respond to enterprise demands for hybrid, multicloud options

As the digital transformation continues to expand into all avenues of enterprise life, organizations are demanding enterprise-grade tech keep up. Dell Technologies Inc. is listening to these demands, and this means continuing to figure out various ways to offer hybrid and multicloud cloud strategies along with more data protection and management. This includes an evolving ...

Q&A: The future of IT and business hinges on applications and data

Dell EMC and VMware Inc., recently announced the inception of VMware Tanzu Mission Control, an enterprise-grade Kubernetes user pane to help juggle countless software clusters across varied operating environments, and VMware Enterprise PKS, to help enterprises deploy, run and manage Kubernetes. What was their reasoning to partner together on even more Kubernetes collaborations? The future of IT, applications and data, according to Varun ...