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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Dell’s EMC acquisition doesn’t solve all problems, says former EMC CTO | #DellWorld

“The secret to this acquisition is the go-to-market capabilities of EMC,” said Mark Lewis, CEO of Formation Data Systems, Inc. And as former CTO of EMC, Lewis is in a unique position to comment on the Dell-EMC deal. In an interview with John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from theSiliconANGLE Media team, at DellWorld 2015 in Austin, Texas, ...

EMC acquisition pumps up Dell’s mojo: How Dell could beat Amazon | #DellWorld

“Michael Dell has it in his eye; he wants to build the future,” said theCUBE’s John Furrier. “He’s got a swagger, and he’s super excited.” John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, discussed the implications of Dell’s EMC acquisition in the kick-off for day one of Dell World 2015 at the Austin ...

Unlocking the value of Big Data for IoT | #pworld15

As Big Data technology continues to evolve, so does the discussion around it, as is the case at this year’s PentahoWorld. “It’s really all about the business advantages, which is very different from last year when it was about the technology,” said Quentin Gallivan, CEO of Pentaho Corp. Gallivan joined theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to discuss ...

Tech firm CorpInfo reborn in the Cloud | #reinvent

“Who is CorpInfo? “ asked Stu Miniman as he welcomed Stephen Garden, VP of Cloud for CorpInfo, to theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Amazon re:Invent 2015 in Las Vegas. Describing CorpInfo as a company that helps clients create an IT infrastructure that meets their business objectives, Garden described how the 30-year-old company was “reborn in the cloud,” ...

Amazon goldmine: AWS disrupts yet again with IoT platform | #reinvent

“It is the first time that [the Internet of Things]has really resonated with me,” said Wikibon’s Stu Miniman about Amazon Web Services, Inc.’s (AWS) announcement of the long-awaited IoT platform for AWS today at Amazon re:Invent 2015 in Las Vegas. Disruption, datascience and change Kicking off the final day of coverage from Amazon re:Invent 2015 for ...

VC Jerry Chen on Amazon’s ‘amazing and inevitable march’ | #reinvent

“I come here to connect the dots and see where things are going,” says theCUBE alumni Jerry Chen, partner of Greylock Partners, in an interview at Amazon re:Invent 2015 in Las Vegas. Speaking from his point of view as a venture capitalist, during Amazon re:Invent 2015 in Las Vegas, Chen told John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE ...

Amazon an unstoppable freight train coming down the tracks | #reinvent

“Amazon is an unstoppable freight train coming down the tracks. Everyone is scratching their heads and asking, ‘How can we compete with this?’” said John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, as he kicked off day two coverage of Amazon re:Invent 2015 at the Venetian in Las Vegas, NV. You can’t out innovate Amazon Joining Furrier on theCUBE, from ...

Mega unicorn: Informatica strategy evolves as a private company | #BigDataNYC

“We are all things data for our customers,” said Amit Walia, EVP & CPO, Informatica LLC. “What matters is the data, that’s what is important for our company. … We want to be the one place you go, to be the data platform, the data fabric.” Sitting down with Dave Vellante of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE ...

Hortonworks committed to ODPi and the open community | #BigDataNYC

“You cannot ‘out innovate’ the open community model,” according to Hortonworks, Inc. CTO Scott Gnau, who sees the appeal of openness in gaining credibility by sharing ideas, the ability to get more eyeballs on ideas, and the ability for developers and engineers to keep their skills up to date in a rapidly evolving workplace. Innovate ...

Real-time analytics just ‘hype technology’? | #BigDataNYC

“People reach for real-time and streaming engines where it’s not really important for the use case,” according to Ron Bodkin, founder and president of Think Big, A Teradata Corp. company. Referring to the current trend toward real-time, Bodkin called it “hype technology” and says that many times companies think they need true real-time analytics when ...