Betsy Amy-Vogt

Betsy Amy-Vogt is a staff writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. A digital nomad before the term existed, Betsy started her writing career at a tech startup in Austin, Texas, before taking her laptop off around the globe. When not writing tech news blogs or working on her latest sci-fi fantasy novel, she volunteers at Hekab Be bilingual library and community center in Akumal, Mexico. Got news? Tweet it to @siliconangle.

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Oracle builds clients a bi-directional bridge between existing investments and the cloud | #CloudWorld

Are you starting your journey to cloud integration from SaaS? IaaS? Have legitimate constraints for public cloud consumption? “No problem!” says Oracle. Promising to answer “Who we are, what we do and why it matters,” Steve Daheb, senior VP of Oracle Cloud – IaaS, PaaS, security, mobile and analytics at Oracle, took the stage at the Marriott ...

Oracle Cloud Machine fuels race against AWS | #CloudWorld

Despite coming late to the race, Oracle is going “all in” with cloud, with the announcement of the new Oracle Cloud Machine expected at Oracle CloudWorld today. John Furrier (@furrier) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, kicked off theCUBE’s live coverage of Oracle CloudWorld 2016 from the Marriott Marquis in ...

AVST ‘futureproofs’ infrastructure for the enterprise | #EC16

Large-scale enterprise doesn’t just “change over” to cloud-based infrastructure; it migrates over time, and AVST offers technology to help medium- and large-scale businesses manage the complex move. In an interview at Enterprise Connect 2016 in Orlando, Florida, Hardy Myers, president and CEO of Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST), spoke to John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, ...

Vonage pivots into enterprise space to disrupt market | #EC16

Vonage has entered the enterprise space, and it is starting to shout about it. Having quietly acquired a group of companies, it now has “rock solid” MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) networks and coverage in Canada and the European Union, with plans to expand further. Jeff Savage, VP of national accounts at Vonage Business, talked with John Furrier, ...

Merging the power of Skype4B and Azure into Office 365 | #EC16

The focus of Enterprise Connect 2016 is bringing Unified Communications (UC) into the cloud, and Zig Serafin, corporate VP of Skype Business Services at Microsoft, is at the forefront of a team that is transforming the Microsoft public cloud into a purpose-built communications cloud that offers businesses an alternative to traditional PBX and conferencing systems. “Enterprise ...

How to maintain both tech and security while digitally transforming business | #EC16

It’s clear that the digital transformation is upon the Unified Communications (UC) world, and Enterprise Connect 2016 is highlighting this with a focus on the cloud. In this interview at #EC16, John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, and Peter Bailey, CEO of Vertical Communications, Inc., discuss how to move into the cloud ...

Bandwidth issues? Here’s the secret sauce for one video conferencing host | #EC16

Businesses whose model requires reliable, high-quality video communications are moving to Vidyo, whose Hosted Vidyo Conferencing is disrupting the traditional players in the business video conferencing market, according to Eran Westman, president and CEO of Vidyo, Inc. John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, talked with Westman at Enterprise Connect 2016 in Orlando, ...

How one company leverages resources to provide big performance with ‘mean and lean’ staffing | #DataStorage

With a history in hosting that goes back to the days before the cloud was a buzz, iland Internet Solutions was positioned early on to become a player in the cloud hosting services field. But rather than developing the underlying infrastructure themselves, iland made the decision to stay “mean and lean,” leveraging the technology of ...

How can a company like Nimble displace a company like EMC? | #DataStorage

Nimble Storage, Inc. has introduced what it labels as the industry’s first predictive all-flash array, the All Flash Array (AFA). The AFA offers predictive analytic features and can be clustered with existing hybrid storage arrays. Jeff Frick and Stu Miniman, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, talk with Suresh Vasudevan, president and CEO of Nimble Storage, ...

Flash storage and predictive analytics transform datacenter and user experience | #DataStorage

Through data collected from 95% of its install base, Nimble Storage, Inc. takes the guesswork out of predictive analysis and helps eliminate bottlenecks. In this interview, Jeff Frick and Stu Miniman, cohosts of theCUBE from the SiliconANGLE Media team, chat with Rod Bagg, VP of customer support at Nimble Storage, about how flash storage and predictive analytics are transforming ...