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

Essential health apps for Apple Watch: Revolutionizing doctor-patient care

Apple announced its watchOS 2 on September 9. One of the major selling points behind the Apple Watch has always been combining the smartwatch idea alongside health and fitness tracking. Is this selling point panning out? What technological trends are seen in the healthcare industry and mobile devices — and are they really making a ...

Big Data is a team sport, says EMC | #BigDataNYC

Success in Big Data is directly linked to the teamwork and willingness to share data in a company. At least, this is the lesson for companies, according to EMC’s Bill Schmarzo and Aiden O’Brien. At BigDataNYC 2015, Schmarzo, CTO of EMC, and O’Brien, senior director of EMC, talked with with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, from the ...

Taming massive data sets and research in the healthcare industry | #BigDataNYC

Integrating Big Data technology and research into healthcare is an exciting field, and the partnership between EMC and Partners HealthCare is an example of important innovations. At BigDataNYC 2015, Jon Jackson, scientific computing services manager at Partners HealthCare, and Chris Harrold, global field CTO of Big Data solutions at EMC, talked with with John Furrier, host ...

‘Spinning up’ Hadoop for easy-to-run analytics with Attunity | #BigDataNYC

Attunity, Ltd. has been successfully finding solutions implementing Hadoop into its customers’ systems. Lawrence Schwartz, chief marketing officer at Attunity, talked about Attunity’s success at BigDataNYC 2015 with John Furrier and George Gilbert, cohosts of theCUBE from the SiliconANGLE Media team. Evaluating current environment Attunity focuses customers in a number of areas. It evaluates the customer’s legacy system and ...

Data ninjas study data and build solutions | #BigDataNYC

IBM’s new Cloud Data Services is helping developers learn how to navigate the world of Big Data on IBM’s Cloud. Larry Weber, program director of Cloud Data Services at IBM, sat down at BigDataNYC 2015 with George Gilbert and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to talk about the services IBM is providing. ...

Qlik CTO reveals business intelligence innovations | #BigDataNYC

In previous years, data extraction and analyzation was a slow, tedious process for businesses. But with companies like Qlik, Inc. now leading the way in data-collecting technology, business intelligence is becoming easier and more effective. At BigDataNYC 2015, Anthony Deighton, CTO & SVP of products at Qlik, sat down with cohosts George Gilbert and Dave ...

Container integration: A year of progress | #VMworld

Last year at VMworld, container integration was a big topic of conversation. So what are the updates a year later? Patrick Chanezon, a member of the technical staff at Docker, Inc., discussed container integration with Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during VMworld 2015. Integrated containers Chanezon was able to ...

Splunk continues to develop huge partnering ecosystem | #splunkconf

The impact of customers on new-product development and new partner strategies continue to impact Splunk, Inc.’s position in the marketplace. Splunk .conf 2015 started its second day with John Furrier and Jeff Frick, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE’s media team, offering up some thoughts and observations about the conference so far and where Splunk is headed. Splunk listens to ...

Public radio uses data to improve listener experience | #splunkconf

How is Splunk, Inc. being used in the public radio arena? Alex Gitelzon, system administrator for Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), spoke to John Furrier and Gilbert George, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Splunk .conf 2015 about how his company is using Splunk. Data evaluation for listeners At MPR, there are many podcasts ...

Splunk’s Steve Sommer: ‘Bringing back the sexiness into service monitoring’ | #splunkconf

Splunk’s .conf2015 kicked off today at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Steve Sommer, SVP and CMO, of Splunk, Inc., sat down with John Furrier and George Gilbert, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to talk about Splunk’s growth and innovation. Machine learning “There’s a lot of hype, a lot of focus, on machine learning ...