Amber Johnson

Amber Johnson is a beat writer for SiliconANGLE's premier media team, theCUBE. She covers theCUBE events worldwide, spanning expert commentary on the hottest trends in IT. Johnson worked as an editor at Hendrix College's newspaper publication, The Profile. As a History major, she enjoys learning about the advances made in technology, both in the past and at the bleeding edge. Johnson is an award-winning writer and speaks German. An avid hobbyist, she paints, hikes, and writes poetry in her off-time. She lives in Arkansas with her cat.

Latest from Amber Johnson

Small businesses feel the effects of EMC-Dell merger | #DellWorld

NEWS By AMBER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

Data centers are often beyond the purchasing power of smaller companies, but that is starting to change. As easily expandable options become available through Nutanix, Inc., businesses like Southwest Bank have been able to eliminate on-site servers in favor of remote access. …

Dell Blueprints allow for choice, rapid deployment | #DellWorld

NEWS By AMBER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

Thanks to the EMC merger, Dell, Inc. has become a “powerhouse of enterprise” with the ability to provide storage, compute and open network to both mid-sized and large enterprise companies. And with VMware, Inc., Dell plans to continue growing the trend to offer …

Future ready: Tracking the shift to a pull-oriented market | #DellWorld

NEWS By AMBER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

Being “future ready” is the hottest trend in the technology marketing, as opposed to promising to “future-proof,” as was the practice previously. Areas where the industry is seeing these trends the most are Big Data, social, cloud and anayltics. The question surrounding these …

Mobility challenging in non-traditional cloud environments | #DellWorld

NEWS By AMBER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

While Amazon has made the most strives in on-site cloud technology, Dell, Inc. makes a formidable opponent in nontraditional cloud environments, like countries without conventional infrastructure. With Dell, “the disadvantaged user can … take cloud anywhere,” according to Cameron Chehreh, CTO at …

Grace Hopper Celebration: An initiative that began in a bathroom | #GHC15

NEWS By AMBER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, Inc. has been inspiring women in the computing world since 1994 by putting on the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Event. The first one was attended by 500 people in Washington, D.C. This …

Looking toward a future when diversity is the norm | #GHC15

NEWS By AMBER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

“Your potential is only limited by your mind,” declared Isis Anchalee, platform developer at OneLogin, Inc. Anchalee ought to know, as her second ever Tweet went viral. The progenitor of #ilooklikeanengineer is a self-professed college dropout, who taught herself to code and …

Will Spark replace MapReduce? | #pworld15

NEWS By AMBER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

As analytics accelerate closer to real-time, historical analytics are not being displaced. The benefits of a comprehensive and historic view of data is becoming more than just a daydream. Imagine a problem with a fleet of vehicles. Would current information and stats …

Frictionless data-sharing goal for non-profit | #GHC15

NEWS By AMBER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

The Center for Open Science (COS) is simultaneously a mission-based non-profit and a tech start-up with the goal of providing free data. Open data is so important because tons of money is used to get it, but some research will not have …

Hitachi wants to dominate in IoT | #pworld15

NEWS By AMBER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

Solving the Internet of Things (IoT) problems is a major priority for Hitachi Data Systems Corp. (HDS), as demonstrated by its recent acquisition of Pentaho Corp. The Japan-based company built a relationship with Pentaho based on “mutual interest” while Hitachi looked at “hundreds …

Making data actionable: A 360 customer view | #pworld15

NEWS By AMBER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

Since the first data warehouses, companies have been striving for the so-called “360 customer view” on Big Data. Recent developments in the industry are building on the cost-effective innovations Hadoop refined. Rosanne Saccone, CMO of Pentaho Corp., said those innovations are “new, emerging streaming …

Amber Johnson

Latest from Amber Johnson

Small businesses feel the effects of EMC-Dell merger | #DellWorld

Dell Blueprints allow for choice, rapid deployment | #DellWorld

Future ready: Tracking the shift to a pull-oriented market | #DellWorld

Mobility challenging in non-traditional cloud environments | #DellWorld

Grace Hopper Celebration: An initiative that began in a bathroom | #GHC15

Looking toward a future when diversity is the norm | #GHC15

Will Spark replace MapReduce? | #pworld15

Frictionless data-sharing goal for non-profit | #GHC15

Hitachi wants to dominate in IoT | #pworld15

Making data actionable: A 360 customer view | #pworld15

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