Heather Johnson

Heather is a beat writer for SiliconANGLE's premier video production team theCUBE. She covers theCUBE events worldwide, spanning expert commentary on the hottest trends in IT.

Latest from Heather Johnson

Why IBM wants to be part of the builder society | #ibmwow

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON10 YEARS AGO

In commerce, in 2016, we have the sharing economy. In IT, we have what Bob Lord, chief digital officer at IBM’s Digital Business Group, calls the “builder society.” And of course IBM Corp. wants to be part of it. Lord discussed the builder …

The age of the consumer: How one company implements a hybrid cloud approach | #ibmwow

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON10 YEARS AGO

In this “Age of the Consumer,” financial services and insurance providers have had to learn to pick up the pace from a shuffle to a sprint. They have to provide the tools that allow customer to make their own decisions — now …

Going back to storage’s original recipe: Simple, economical, fast | #OOW

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON10 YEARS AGO

Chadd Kenney, CTO of the Americas at Pure Storage, Inc., said the all-flash solutions provider wants to go back to its original recipe: “Make storage simple, economical and super fast so you can harness the overall data.” Kenney and Sara Stuart, global sales lead …

Move over Amazon, Oracle really wants to play | #OOW

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON10 YEARS AGO

“The Amazon lead is over,” said Oracle CTO Larry Ellison during his keynote speech at Oracle Open World in San Francisco. Oracle has moved to the cloud and is aggressively competing with Amazon AWS in the market. Ashish Mohindroo, VP of the Oracle …

The financial industry gets an AI research assistant | #SeizeTheData

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON10 YEARS AGO

The financial sector has embraced data in a big way. A new company, LogitBot, Inc., takes advantage of this convergence by providing a platform for financial insights. They call it an AI research assistant. At its core, LogitBot resembles many others platforms …

Why a 125-year-old family-owned business embraces data | #SeizeTheData

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON10 YEARS AGO

An operation with 115 production facilities that serves more than 150,000 customers every week generates a lot of data. AmeriPride Services, Inc., one of the largest uniform rental and linen supply companies in North America, aims to set itself apart from the …

Riding the Big Data wave during shifting tides | #SeizeTheData

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON10 YEARS AGO

A business may have the tools to access its data and even analyze that data, but making that information available and accessible to non-data scientists remains the challenge. Looker Data Sciences, Inc. aims to solve this dilemma with a data platform that lets …

Making the plethora of open data available to all | #SeizeTheData

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON10 YEARS AGO

We know data lurks in every nook of our increasingly mobile, “smart” lifestyles. Brendan Stennett and Bryan Smith, cofounders of ThinkData Works, Inc., saw a common access problem in getting to that data. Hence, the impetus for founding their company, which aims …

Why Toyota needs analytics to uncover its own success | #SeizeTheData

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON10 YEARS AGO

Auto manufacturer Toyota Motor Corp. didn’t start out as the leader in economy cars. But by the 1970s, the public recognized Toyota as the premier manufacturer of quality cars at a low cost. Steve Spear, author of The High-Velocity Edge, sat down with …

HPE unpacks Vertica 8 | #SeizeTheData

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON10 YEARS AGO

Among the many announcements at the 2016 HPE Big Data Conference, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) introduced Vertica 8, which offers a unified architecture and advanced in-database analytics capabilities that allow users to conduct sophisticated analysis at “industry-leading” scale and speed, regardless …

Heather Johnson

Latest from Heather Johnson

Why IBM wants to be part of the builder society | #ibmwow

The age of the consumer: How one company implements a hybrid cloud approach | #ibmwow

Going back to storage’s original recipe: Simple, economical, fast | #OOW

Move over Amazon, Oracle really wants to play | #OOW

The financial industry gets an AI research assistant | #SeizeTheData

Why a 125-year-old family-owned business embraces data | #SeizeTheData

Riding the Big Data wave during shifting tides | #SeizeTheData

Making the plethora of open data available to all | #SeizeTheData

Why Toyota needs analytics to uncover its own success | #SeizeTheData

HPE unpacks Vertica 8 | #SeizeTheData

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