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

Permabit partners with IBM on data efficiency | #IBMEdge

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

IBM recently partnered with data efficiency solutions company Permabit Technology Corp. to bring Permabit’s SANblox inline data efficiency to the IBM FlashSystem 9000 and V9000. A market leader in the flash array space, IBM makes data efficiency and capacity optimization priorities and …

XtremIO 4.0: The “No Excuses” release | #emcworld

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

In a little more than a year, EMC’s XtremIO rose to become the leading all-flash array, according to Gartner’s latest solid-state array market analysis. This is exciting, but not entirely surprising for Josh Goldstein, VP of Marketing & Product Management for XtremIO. …

Bill Schmarzo talks Big Data, Big Business | #emcworld

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

As Big Data continues to mature, Bill Schmarzo, EMC Corp.’s CTO of Global Services, Big Data Practice, has noticed the Big Data shift from the IT to the business space. The shift will continue as more businesses recognize Big Data’s value. “I …

Markel streamlines architecture with enterprise hybrid Cloud | #emcworld

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

Insurance underwriter Markel Corp. grew rapidly through acquisition. With this growth, the company found itself with disparate architecture in its data center that needed streamlining. Senior director of IT, Mike von Slomski, told theCUBE that he learned about the Federation Enterprise Hybrid …

Fox Sports Australia brings round-the-clock coverage with VCE Vblock, EMC Isilon | #emcworld

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

Fox Sports Australia, the leading subscription sports provider in Australia, covers 25 Tier 1 sports live, 23 hours a day. The suite of Fox Sports channels include one-third traditional broadcast and two-thirds new media; therefore, the company uses a lot of IP …

EMC creates inaugural open source project | #emcworld

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

At EMC World, the company announced Project CoprHD (copperhead), an open source version of the EMC ViPR Controller storage automation software. Project CoprHD is available as a free download. Randy Bias, EMC ETD’s VP of Technology, told theCUBE during EMC World 2015 …

Capgemini finds value in Federation business data lake | #emcworld

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

Consulting, technology and outsourcing corporation Capgemini (Cap Gemini S.A.) began working with the EMC Corp.’s Federation Big Data Lake solution before its March 2014 release. Steve Jones, Capgemini’s global VP of Big Data, sees Big Data as another means to provide value …

Sungard helps customers grapple with Big Data | #emcworld

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

Sungard customers struggle with how to leverage Big Data and how to get the most of the agility and scalability of such tools, according to Wade Alt, senior VP of Global Channels, Marketing Strategy and Solutions for Sungard Availability Services. Sungard partners …

ScaleIO: optimized for performance and prepared for any storage environment | #emcworld

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

At EMC World 2015, EMC Corp. announced partner VCE Company, LLC’s VxRack, which enables customers to consume EMC ScaleIO as a software and as an integrated converged infrastructure appliance, according to VP and GM Boaz Palgi, VP and GM of ScaleIO/ASD at EMC. ScaleIO …

EMC delivers predictive, proactive customer support | #emcworld

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

EMC Corp. Customer Service President Kevin Roche says that his department can now leverage data to create a more “predictive, proactive, solutions support model.” Roche also sees interesting results from “leveraging big data and providing analytics in a closed-loop process,” he said …

Heather Johnson

Latest from Heather Johnson

Permabit partners with IBM on data efficiency | #IBMEdge

XtremIO 4.0: The “No Excuses” release | #emcworld

Bill Schmarzo talks Big Data, Big Business | #emcworld

Markel streamlines architecture with enterprise hybrid Cloud | #emcworld

Fox Sports Australia brings round-the-clock coverage with VCE Vblock, EMC Isilon | #emcworld

EMC creates inaugural open source project | #emcworld

Capgemini finds value in Federation business data lake | #emcworld

Sungard helps customers grapple with Big Data | #emcworld

ScaleIO: optimized for performance and prepared for any storage environment | #emcworld

EMC delivers predictive, proactive customer support | #emcworld

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