R. Danes

R. Danes is a senior writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, who is based on the East Coast. Her fondness for old media and longform journalism converges with an interest in new media and digital content trends. Exploring digital disruption in the realm of publications, articles and writing led her to writing articles about digital disruption everywhere. Find R. Danes on Twitter @DanesRd. Got a news tip? Please tweet us @siliconangle.

Latest from R. Danes

New report: COVID-19 internet snafus teach lessons on service-provider visibility

COVID-19 caused a lot of people to wonder just what they’d do without a network connection. For enterprise heads, that particular scenario involved more than being bereft of Instagram for a little while — such as lost business and lasting marks on their reputation. That’s eye-opening, given many enterprise chiefs outsource several information technology services these days and ...

With DX in overdrive, it’s a new world for data protection

One of the side effects of COVID-19 has been to accelerate companies’ adoption of cloud and certain cloud native technologies. This means that protecting data in these new environments is no longer a problem to be figured out on a rainy day — it’s a pressing concern right now. Making data protection an every-man-for-himself sport ...
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Vets Who Code founder reveals why ‘remote-first’ is a no-brainer for nonprofits

Organizations forced to go remote due to COVID-19 are figuring out that there are pros and cons to the arrangement. Some may even keep working from home after restrictions lift for the sometimes surprising efficiency and productivity gains. Jerome Hardaway (pictured), founder of Vets Who Code, was not surprised at the efficiency boost his 501(c)(3) nonprofit ...

How COVID-19 is hurrying states to modernize .gov services

COVID-19 has given government bodies not only a public-health emergency to cope with, but also a chance to experiment with cloud and other new technologies to help them rapidly respond to citizens’ needs.  The shutdown has sent a number of disruptive ripples through society, one being a sudden flood of unemployment claims. “The demand became ...

FDA gets 360-degree view of drug-development life cycle after eliminating data silos

What does it take to meet the practical end goals of those big-data plans still unrealized in so many organizations? We asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — an organization whose huge responsibilities rest in large part on proper data handling — for some pointers. It has some cred in this area, having just won ...

Why VMs won’t die even as containers multiply in modern enterprise

In real life, many companies just don’t see a business case for bleeding-edge everything, and the anatomy of a modernized application isn’t always what cloud-native purists dream about. This is why virtual machines and containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications) are increasingly calling a truce in what once appeared to be a death ...

Pensando’s not playing with point solutions on its full-stack edge platform

A complete mess, a disaster, a jigsaw puzzle. Such descriptors for the state of edge computing leave companies wondering: Who will ultimately solve this problem? Will it take of half of Silicon Valley to piece together a solution with many different products? Or will one intrepid company armed with a custom P4 processing engine develop ...
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What separates multiple clouds from multicloud? Maybe event-driven apps

How does a company know it has made it from multiple clouds to true multicloud — some end goal where unique value is realized? The North Star to follow isn’t the infrastructure or services so much as what the end user actually sees and interacts with: the application. And one of the most important questions ...

Can Docker’s quicker, cheaper containers get even more developers onboard?

After selling its enterprise business to Mirantis Inc. last November, Docker Inc. is seeking inroads into the hearts of developers. It wants to make it easy for them to say “yes” to containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications). This means enlarging the tent for individuals who can develop with Docker and breaking container use ...

As business goes digital, Docker and Snyk rush ship apps with sec integration

Becoming agile and application-driven is on the agendas of many companies. The COVID-19 crisis is forcing many of them to hurry digital transformation, since much business previously done in person has moved online. But security “no men” often stop or slow the building and deploying of new software. To keep pace with demand for new ...