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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Q&A: As the enterprise embraces GPUs, VDI, Nvidia and Dell respond

As the digital transformation marches onward, graphics processing units and virtual desktop infrastructure are becoming increasingly valued commodities in many areas of the enterprise world. Why is this? John Fanelli (pictured, left), vice president of product for GRID at Nvidia Corp., and Kevin Gray (pictured, right), director of product marketing at Dell EMC, spoke with John Furrier ...

Q&A: Orgs adopting ‘public cloud in droves’ seek hybrid solutions

With VMware Inc.’s recent agreement to acquire Pivotal Software Inc., it’s clear that Dell Technologies Inc. — which owns majority stake of both VMware and Pivotal — is gearing up to have an even better collaboration around applications and Kubernetes, creating more opportunities for hybrid cloud and infrastructure as a service. VMware is seeking to achieve ...

Q&A: VMware, Bitfusion tackle AI infrastructure and alternative processors

In July 2019, VMware Inc. announced its acquisition of Bitfusion.io Inc., a pioneer in virtualization with a knack for artificial intelligence to boost graphics processing units and field programmable gate arrays. VMware’s ultimate goal with the acquisition: help businesses more efficiently use AI technologies on-premises and in hybrid cloud computing environments. Mike Adams (pictured, left), senior director of ...

Cloud vs. on-prem: Wendy’s learns crucial lessons during digital transformation

With more than 6,700 Wendy’s restaurants worldwide, The Wendy’s Co. must address information technology concerns quickly and effectively or risk serious business interruption, as it found out two years ago after a data storage mishap. And as the company navigates its current digital transformation, it continues to confront a variety of concerns, all while learning crucial lessons ...

Digital transformation calls for low-code, constant modernization platform

As VMware Inc. provides platform virtualization software and services to more than 500,000 customers, it needs a modern integration platform that effectively manages API connections across any combination of cloud or on-premises integrations. To do so, VMware is using Dell Boomi, a distribution architecture of containers that can run anywhere, integrate everything, and move data ...

Q&A: Dell, VMware partnership deepens as they tackle security, robust ecosystem

As Dell Technologies Inc. and VMware Inc. continue to deepen their partnership — including VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, which has just become available — the question around data protection for open source containers management platform Kubernetes alongside a robust ecosystem remains at the forefront. Beth Phalen (pictured, right), president and general manager of the data protection division ...

Data management, protection continues to evolve with multiple data sources, cloud, SaaS

The conversation that companies have around data management, data backup, and data insurance isn’t going away — but the kinds of questions and solutions they are wrestling with are changing. So what’s driving businesses now? And why are so many customers reassessing their backup approach and their overall data? Terry Ramos (pictured), vice president of alliances at ...

Businesses seek simple solutions for complex HCI strategies

As enterprises continue to wrestle with multicloud, hybrid cloud, and hyperconverged environment strategies, the actual execution can become much more complex than originally intended — unless they have truly thought through the implications of creating hybrid environments. Even more complexity usually results. Nutanix Inc, has worked hard to offer HCI solutions that give simplicity back ...

In an unpredictable cloud industry, how can companies really succeed?

If most technology companies are honest, predicting the future of cloud is challenging. It’s a complex, evolving industry, and it’s hard to know if cloud solutions will take 80% or 30% of the market in the next five years. Winslow Technology LLC, an information technology solutions and consulting service, has countless conversations with enterprise customers ...
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Cloud satellite solutions help tackle deforestation, wildfires and more

Satellites are used within a variety of private industries — like weather, communications and media — but they take an enormous amount of money, contracts with ground station providers and data management capabilities. In the past, this has made the satellite industry limited only to those who can manage all of those moving parts and ...