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: Why SADA Systems went all-in with Google Cloud partnership

SADA Systems Inc. began bringing organizations to the cloud before it was a hot topic. The company provides business and technology consulting services aimed at transforming organizations through cloud-based solutions. While the company was a pilot partner with both Microsoft and Google for cloud options, it has now gone all-in with Google Cloud as it plans for the future of cloud ...

Google Cloud-NCAA team-up underscores the difference data makes

What do the NCAA, high school students, and Google have in common? A commitment to community and innovation. During Google Cloud Next 2019, Google Cloud rolled out a variety of new services and partnerships as it continues efforts to stake out a leading position in cloud and attract more enterprise customers. These key partnerships, including Google’s ...

Beyond data protection: Cohesity-Google partnership creates backup as a service

As multicloud and hybrid cloud continue to transform the way companies operate, mass data continues to get siloed and fragmented within a patchwork of infrastructures spanning virtualized and on-premise and data centers. So what is the next step in data backup and data protection? Because data protection is just the tip of the iceberg. “Data ...

Q&A: Real-time cloud monitoring trends and demystifying complex tech

With Google this week announcing a range of hybrid and multicloud innovations, along with seven new partners in open-source technology, the importance of a hybrid approach to computing infrastructure is clear.  And while it seems the push is toward simplicity, multicloud integration remains a complex obstacle for enterprise computing. Complexity must be embraced through all ...

Q&A: Maximizing multicloud as the architecture of the future

Multicloud computing is here to stay, bringing with it a new wave of technology in the push toward digital and cloud transformation. So how will companies get ahead of the game? And where is the future going? Fabio Gori (pictured, right), senior director of cloud solution marketing at Cisco Systems Inc., and Jonathan King (pictured, ...
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Microsoft’s chief information security officer lays out the cyber essentials

Microsoft has more than 6.5 trillion different security signals each day coming into its ecosystem. As such, the technology giant knows a thing or two about keeping data safe for its customers. So what are the key security principles guiding today’s ever-evolving technology landscape? “Things have changed,” said Bret Arsenault (pictured), corporate vice president and chief information security officer at Microsoft. “In ...

Q&A: How Five9 is using cloud, AI to revolutionize call centers

Cloud technologies and artificial intelligence are changing the way that call centers are doing business, and Five9, Inc. — a company dedicated to implementing innovation cloud integration and AI within call centers — has claimed growth in leaps and bounds, including a 31-percent revenue growth in the last quarter of 2018. So what is changing in call ...

Tech hubs bring ‘the tangible’ into tech through AI, smart products

As Accenture Lab celebrated the launch of it’s flagship Innovation Lab in San Francisco last week, the Lab’s core team talked about the innovations they foresee around smart products, artificial intelligence, and the human-machine interconnectedness of the future. “These innovation hubs are something that we’re growing in the U.S. and around the world, but I think here in ...
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Q&A: The ethical AI questions companies should be asking

As artificial intelligence becomes one of the burgeoning technological advances of the 21st century, there are many troubling ethical questions surrounding the proper usage of AI for heavily invested companies. Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, global lead for responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence, has made it her life’s work to talk to companies about the ethical and ...

Q&A: How female entrepreneurs are developing confidence in the tech world

Confidence is key when anyone sets out to accomplish their dreams, especially as more and more women reach within to find the strength to plunge into leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation within the science and technology fields. Sarah Gerweck (pictured), founder and chief architect of AtScale Inc., recently received recognition for her work as one of ...