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

A new path to cloud? Oracle’s plans to close the public/private gap | #OOW

During Oracle OpenWorld 2016, Oracle is highlighting its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to offer an entirely new infrastructure experience for enterprises. The company is also explaining its own aggressive move to Cloud computing. Chuck Hollis, senior VP of Infrastructure, Cloud and Storage at Oracle, spoke with John Furrier (@furrier) and Peter Burris (@plburris), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media ...

Cloud is changing everything, even human capital management | #OOW

The cloud is changing everything about how business runs, including human resources and how businesses interact with employees and measure their engagement. And one company plans to launch more verticals to compete in the Human Capital Management (HCM) business with the likes of Salesforce.com Inc. Gretchen Alarcon, group VP of Product Strategy at Oracle, spoke with John ...

Shell’s inside perspective on the changing landscape of IT | #Riverbed

From a enormous company’s perspective, what is it like to be going through the digital transformation? Royal Dutch Shell (commonly known as Shell) is a large integrated oil and gas company that is in the midst of the digital transformation. Jay Haines, landscape operations and integration manager at Royal Dutch Shell, spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Dave Vellante ...

SteelConnect allows Riverbed to go into mainstream networking market | #Riverbed

Riverbed Disrupt began today with a General Session devoted to talking about the disruption of technology in the IT landscape. Cloud is a complex topic — especially when it comes to networking — but Riverbed Technology, Inc. has come up with an innovative solution in its new SteelConnect product, according to Jerry Kennelly, chairman and CEO ...

Making flash scale-out storage easier for end users | #VMworld

EMC XtremIO is bringing flash scale-out storage and making it easier for end users — something no one else seems to be doing, according to Rami Katz, senior director of Product Management at EMC. Katz spoke with John Wallis (@JohnWalls21) and John Furrier (@furrier), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during VMworld US 2016. EMC XtremIO and ease ...

Will there be one cloud platform to rule them all? Analysts weigh in | #VMworld

Will there be “one platform to rule them all” in the cloud integration scramble? And will VMware, Inc. be that platform? theCUBE’s coverage of day two at VMWorld 2016 wrapped up with a lively discussion that included Peter Burris, (@plburris), Stu Miniman (@stu), Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor), and John Furrier(@furrier), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team. The level of ...

Demand for hyper-convergence on the rise: Why? | #VMworld

As customer demand rises for hyper-converged infrastructure, what exactly are they looking for? And why might they want to build a hyper-converged infrastructure? Gil Shneorson (@GilShneorson), VP and GM for VxRail at EMC, spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor), host and guest host of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during VMworld US 2016. Hyper-convergence, designed ...

Who will be players vs. pretenders in the Big Data game? | #infa16

When it comes to Big Data integration, will Informatica Corp. truly take the lead? There are a lot of players out in the field right now, but who will come out on top, and who will fade away as pretenders? Matt Healey, enterprise software and services analyst at Neuralytix, Inc., spoke with John Furrier (@furrier) and ...

Three ways financial services are making a difference with Big Data | #infa16

Financial services companies contain huge amounts of Big Data, and they are trying to figure out how best to use this data to move their companies forward. Peter Ku, senior director of Industry Consulting and chief strategist for Financial Services at Informatica Corp., spoke with John Furrier (@furrier) and Peter Burris (@plburris), cohosts of theCUBE, from ...

Delineating Cloud and data in the digital transformation | #infa16

As applications move to the cloud, the difference between data and Cloud are blurring. So how can this be leveraged most effectively as companies move into the digital transformation? Steward Bond, director of Data Integration Software at International Data Corp. (IDC) Canada, spoke with John Furrier (@furrier), cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Informatica ...