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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Startup analyzes blockchain data to help extract ‘flies from the amber’

Being recognized as a successful woman in tech is a huge accomplishment, but there are those who are also quick to point out that gender is just one of many aspects a person has to offer the world. Tongtong Gong (pictured), co-founder and chief operating officer of Amberdata Inc., was recently awarded one of the Top Women Entrepreneurs ...
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Data with a dose of teamwork helped this tech entrepreneur break glass ceilings

No matter who you are, data talks — especially for women trying to break down barriers in the world of technology. Idit Levine (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of solo.io Inc., was recently awarded one of the Top Women Entrepreneurs in Cloud by CloudNOW, a nonprofit consortium of women in cloud computing. “My motto is really simple: ...

Q&A: CloudNOW founder reflects on groundswell of support for inclusion and diversity in tech

Diversity is finally being embraced by the tech world, as was clear at the seventh annual CloudNOW Top Women Entrepreneurs in Cloud Innovation Awards that were held on January 29. This year’s event was groundbreaking, selling out quickly with more than 300 attendees and held for the first time at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. ...

Hybrid cloud crafts new storage options for cloud data services

As hybrid cloud computing gains ground in enterprise computing, companies are circling around the question of what to do with their data given the newfound mixture of storage and networking solutions between public and private cloud environments. Flexibility is by nature a necessity of hybrid cloud, and Pure Storage Inc. aims to support flexible solutions no matter ...

Private and public cloud distinction is ‘completely gone,’ says VMware VP

For the past few years, companies debated between private and public cloud computing. Then hybrid and multicloud options started to help merge these competing forces, bringing more options to organizations that didn’t want to force a choice. And now? With landmark collaborations between companies like Amazon Web Services Inc. and VMware Inc., the cloud is back to ...

How AWS plans to market all the new stuff it’s launched

As cloud infrastructure platforms expand their product portfolios into the world of industry-specific microservices, one of the biggest challenges is to market these innovative solutions effectively. Eron Kelly (pictured), general manager of enterprise services marketing at Amazon Web Services Inc., revealed what AWS is doing to get the word out about the company’s new developments — including 13 new machine learning services, eight ...

Collaborative multicloud solutions in demand as businesses evolve

The demand for hybrid and multicloud computing infrastructure is forcing companies to learn to collaborate and cooperate rather than just compete — which is something VMware Inc. is doing by partnering with Amazon Web Services, Inc. “People don’t move and change things just because it’s convenient,” said Ajay Patel (pictured), senior vice president and general manager of cloud provider software ...

How IBM, Red Hat look to lead global hybrid, multicloud market

When the news hit on October 29, 2018, that IBM Corp. had acquired Red Hat Inc., in a $34 billion deal, it stunned the technology world. And with good reason, as Red Hat’s merging with IBM was the biggest software acquisition ever achieved. But beyond the hype, what will this actually mean for Red Hat ...
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How AWS plans to move on-premises for hybrid cloud collaboration with VMware

Since VMware Inc., and Amazon Web Services Inc. announced their partnership in 2016 with offerings such as VMware Cloud on AWS, the two previously fierce competitors have continued to deepen their partnership. As Amazon RDS on VMware — which helps customers deploy managed databases in on-premises VMware environments — begins previewing for customers, Amazon just announced another service called Amazon ...

The top storage and memory trends driving multicloud markets

While storage solutions have been changing rapidly as the digital transformation charges forward, optimism continues to grow about the future advancements of computing storage and memory. In fact, the hard disk drive may soon become a thing of the past, according to Derek Dicker (pictured), corporate vice president and general manager of the Storage Business Unit at Micron ...