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

Uber building real-time platforms using stream processing

As the ride-sharing economy evolves to encompass food delivery and courrier services, Uber Technologies Inc. leverages real-time data analysis to support the broadening ecosystem of restaurants and businesses tapping into Uber’s network of drivers. The effort requires a blend of open source tools, including Apache Flink and Apache Calcite to enable Structured Query Language API and Table ...

Stream processing turning the database inside out

When stream processors began, they were considered by the computing industry as a mere addition to the batch data stack or other stacks being utilized by information technology administrators. But stream processing has come a long way, and it is beginning to shift the way people collect data and upgrade applications. This evolution is shifting the ...

Enterprises like Netflix, ING embrace stream processing, real time

Large enterprises like Netflix Inc. and ING Inc. are just a couple use cases of businesses embracing a stream processing method that is both event driven, and in real time. This is the way modern companies, even those not traditionally labeled tech organization, will operate from now on as progressive, data-led technologies continue to scale. “We see it in ...

IoT implementation excels with education, risk adversity

Big enterprises are hungry to incorporate the “internet of things” into their companies. However, there’s a lot of education that needs to be done in order for enterprises to understand how to best leverage these new technologies, and it takes a risk-adverse mindset in order to take IoT to the next level. “The first barrier ...
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Big data had its glory days, but it needs deep learning to produce value

Big data was all the rage a few years ago, but data in and of itself is actually not that helpful without applied analytics. Because of this, companies today need to focus on the modern technologies that have emerged in recent months, including deep learning and other artificial intelligence methods trained to extract value from vast amounts ...

Creating a holistic Big Data team: Mixing scientists and engineers | #BigDataNYC

Claiming one of the largest data science teams in America, Pivotal Software Inc., shares its strategies for the company and its customers when it comes to Big Data. Jacque Istok, America’s Field CTO of Pivotal, spoke with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Peter Burris (@plburris), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during BigDataNYC 2016 to discuss the ...

Evolving Big Data tools lead to innovation: Enter Control-M | #BigDataNYC

Managing technology assets for the enterprise, BMC Software finds itself ushering clients into the digital era. The company is now focusing on a number of Digital Enterprise Management (DEM) initiatives, including a Big Data initiative called Control-M. Joe Goldberg, innovation evangelist at BMC Software Inc., spoke with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Peter Burris (@plburris), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE ...

How PaaS is helping developers move into the future | #OOW

The future for developers is changing rapidly, and Oracle is helping developers reach new levels with its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), according to Amit Zavery, Senior Vice President, Integration Products, at Oracle. Zavery spoke with John Furrier (@furrier) and Peter Burris (@plburris), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Oracle OpenWorld 2016 to talk about PaaS ...

Why Infrustructure-as-a-Service is critical to innovation | #OOW

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offers organizations multiple benefits in the cloud, including dynamic scaling, a lower total cost of ownership and flexibility, among many other benefits. So, as more businesses search for IaaS solutions, Oracle has rounded out its product offerings in this area to include bare metal cloud servers and enhancements to its Oracle Cloud ...

Hackbright Academy: There is a place for women in software | #OOW

While the need for software engineers is skyrocketing as companies rely more and more on technology to compete in the digital transformation, the number of women software engineers have been in decline for decades, according to Sharon Wienbar, CEO of Hackbright Academy and venture partner at Scale Venture Partners. HackBright Academy is looking to change ...