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 world of multiple storage blends | #oow15

Storage in IT enterprise used to have certain rules that seemed tried and true. However, storage is facing major changes right now, bringing new players into the field. Dan Leary,VP of products, solutions and alliances at Nimble Storage, Inc., spoke with Stu Miniman, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Oracle OpenWorld 2015. Changes in storage ...

Cloud changing infrastructure, Oracle ahead of the curve | #oow15

Oracle OpenWorld 2015 started off its fourth day with a keynote address highlighting the ways Cloud is changing everything in infrastructure and what Oracle has done to transition successfully. David Donatelli, executive VP of converged infrastructure at Oracle, spoke about the importance of cloud. John Fowler, executive VP of Systems at Oracle, and Juan Loaiza, Senior Vice President ...

Oracle announces new services for cloud management | #oow15

Innovation is extremely fast-paced in this day and age of tech. Things used to be much slower, but companies need to keep up in an ever-changing environment. At Oracle OpenWorld 2015, Prakash Ramamurthy, senior VP of systems and cloud management at Oracle, and Mary Johnston Turner, research VP of enterprise system management software at International ...

How to conquer the digital transformation | #oow15

“Consumers are buying experiences. They are buying the light, not the lamp,” said Abidali Neemuchwala, group president and COO of Wipro Ltd. The topic of today’s keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2015 centered around making a digital experience that resonates with the customer. Rick Welts, president and COO of the Golden State Warriors, and Thomas Kurian, president ...

Transforming IoT data into dollars | #pworld15

PentahoWorld 2015 concluded its conference with a fascinating keynote session highlighting Caterpillar Marine Asset Intelligence, a company that’s using Big Data successfully. The keynote also wrapped up by announcing 2015 Excellence Award Winners. Using Big Data successfully with marine ships “The Internet of Things is here to stay,” said James Stascavage, head of engineering at Caterpillar Marine ...

IoT changes the Big Data game with more historic info | #pworld15

The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing up the game of Big Data, and Pentaho Corp. is implementing changes to help the Big Data pipeline. Pentaho’s founder and CTO James Dixon sat down with George Gilbert and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, at PentahoWorld 2015 to talk about Big Data and ...

On the cutting-edge of container technology | #VMworld

It’s clear that containers are here to stay. At VMworld 2015, a panel of leaders in the container technology revolution sat down to talk about the opportunities with containers. Panelists Brandon Philips, CTO of CoreOS, Inc.; Nick Weaver, director of Intel SDI-X; and Sheng Liang, cofounder and CEO of Rancher Labs Inc., talked with Brian Gracely, ...

Inside VMware’s Virtual SAN | #VMworld

Thinking about implementing VMware, Inc.’s Virtual SAN? During a panel at VMworld 2015, panelists offered some real-life experience from customers who’ve been using Virtual SAN (VSAN) for a year: Kenny Wilder, director of infrastructure at Fulton County Schools; Tod Huber, director of information technology at Master Lock Company LLC; and Chris Skaling, regional practice manager at FusionStorm, ...

‘Flash to disk to cloud.’ The storage story, according to NetApp | #reinvent

NetApp, Inc. competes in the data-storage devices industry, and it’s been incorporating cloud storage into its services as well. Some questioned this move, asking, “Why move storage into the Cloud? They’re competition.” NetApp doesn’t believe that’s the truth and has worked with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) to incorporate more cloud capabilities. Phil Brotherton, VP of ...

Huge waves hit the Cloud space | #reinvent

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is making huge waves in the cloud space. For companies using AWS, how is this benefitting them? Francesco Rovetta, VP of alliances and distribution at Freshdesk, Inc., and Mark Wright, director of partnerships and evangelization at Ayla Networks, joined John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Amazon re:Invent ...