Kathryn Buford

As a scholar, social entrepreneur, and consultant, Kathryn has led and consulted on projects for The Embassy of Jamaica, Americorps, BBC, Sony Entertainment, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and various small businesses, creative agencies, nonprofits and media brands. Her writings and commentary have appeared in publications like BBC, GOOD, CNBC and Live Unchained -- her former blog (of 6 years) for women and creatives across the African Diaspora. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Maryland, College Park with concentrations in social theory and social and cultural entrepreneurship.

Latest from Kathryn Buford

Hart Hoover of OpenStack Says “Closed Cloud Days Are Numbered”

NEWS By KATHRYN BUFORD13 YEARS AGO

In their ongoing coverage of the O’Reilly fluent conference, John Furrier and Jeff Frick spoke with Hart Hoover in theCube. The three discussed the evolution of OpenStack, its agility across multiple platforms and common concerns for OpenStack customers. Furrier also describes Rackspace …

Modulus CEO Sees a Booming Future for NodeJS | #fluentconf

NEWS By KATHRYN BUFORD13 YEARS AGO

In SiliconANGLE’s ongoing coverage of the O’Reilly Fluent conference, John Furrier spoke with Charlie Key, Modulus CEO, in theCube. The two discussed Modulus’ impetus, mission and philosophy when it comes to innovation and collaboration with developers. Key also shares his thoughts on …

Tech as a Commodity – Clients Want Services, says KPN CIO

NEWS By KATHRYN BUFORD13 YEARS AGO

Petra Zijlstra, Chief Information Officer of KPN and Maarten le Noble, Manager of ServiceNow for KPN, spoke with Dave Vellante in theCube to discuss their implementation and experience of ServiceNow. KPN focuses mainly on fixed and wireless communications and dominates the industry …

Expect to See More Cloud Services Brokerage Firms | #servicenow

NEWS By KATHRYN BUFORD13 YEARS AGO

In the ongoing ServiceNow 2013 event coverage from in theCube, Dave Vellante spoke with Jason Wojahn Operations Vice President of the Americas BusinessUnit, ServiceNow, Cloud Sherpas. Vellante and Wojahn discuss why it has taken a while for such applications to catch on, …

Co-Innovation Between EMC and CSC is Thriving

NEWS By KATHRYN BUFORD13 YEARS AGO

In theCube’s ongoing coverage of Sapphire Now, John Furrier spoke with Tony McCoy, Vice President, Americas Service Providers/Alliances, EMC and David Parsons, Corporate Vice President, Global Alliances and Chief Marketing Officer, CSC. McCoy and Parsons’ partnership is fostering what Furrier refers to …

Now Is Not The Time to be Scared of Virtualization, says SAP | #sapphirenow

NEWS By KATHRYN BUFORD13 YEARS AGO

In SiliconANGLE’s ongoing coverage of the Sapphire Now 2013 conference, John Furrier spoke with Henrik Wagner of Global SAP Practice at EMC and Hsinte James Yen of SAP Basis. In The Cube they discuss the advantages of the SAP environment, particularly concerning …

Google Unveils $9.99 “AllAccess” Music Service, Rivals Spotify + Pandora

NEWS By KATHRYN BUFORD13 YEARS AGO

Google unveiled “Google Play MusicAllAccess” its much rumored (and awaited) music subscription service at the 2013 Google I/O conference, which rivals Spotify and Pandora. According to Mike Isaac of AllThingsD, what distinguishesAllAccess from Spotify, is that it is accessible across the Internet …

With Nearly $1Million in Seed Funding, Everwise Uses Big Data to Reinvent Mentoring

NEWS By KATHRYN BUFORD13 YEARS AGO

With the popularity dating sites like eHarmony, Match.com, OkCupid and the like are no longer simply waiting for the stars to align to meet that special someone. The new online platform, Everwise, has capitalized on the networking trend as the “eHarmony for …

Teen Designed Emergency App Keeps Your Loved Ones At Ease and Reflects Importance of Youth Innovation in Tech

NEWS By KATHRYN BUFORD13 YEARS AGO

There was a bad weather storm. You were stuck in traffic. You were running late. One of these things happened at the worst time possible – when your friends, family and loved ones were wondering if you were ok. Unfortunately, they …

Virtualizing Lessons From The University of San Diego

NEWS By KATHRYN BUFORD13 YEARS AGO

Mike Somerville, Systems Support and Chief Cloud Evangelist at the University of San Diego joined Dave Vellante in theCube during the EMC World 2013 Conference this week. Vellante and Somerville discuss the University of San Diego network and the institution’s decisions to …

Kathryn Buford

Latest from Kathryn Buford

Hart Hoover of OpenStack Says “Closed Cloud Days Are Numbered”

Modulus CEO Sees a Booming Future for NodeJS | #fluentconf

Co-Innovation Between EMC and CSC is Thriving

Now Is Not The Time to be Scared of Virtualization, says SAP | #sapphirenow

Google Unveils $9.99 “AllAccess” Music Service, Rivals Spotify + Pandora

With Nearly $1Million in Seed Funding, Everwise Uses Big Data to Reinvent Mentoring

Teen Designed Emergency App Keeps Your Loved Ones At Ease and Reflects Importance of Youth Innovation in Tech

Virtualizing Lessons From The University of San Diego

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