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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

How Cloudera keeps bringing the future back | #BigDataNYC

NEWS By KATHRYN BUFORD13 YEARS AGO

In their ongoing coverage of SiliconANGLE’s own Big Data NYC conference, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Amr Adwallah, Cloudera CTO in theCUBE. Adwallah reflects on how his past experience shaped his current role at Cloudera saying, “At companies like Yahoo! …

WANdisco fights data failures like no one else | #BigDataNYC

NEWS By KATHRYN BUFORD13 YEARS AGO

In their ongoing coverage of SiliconANGLE’s own Big Data NYC conference, Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly speak with Brett Rudenstein, Senior Product Manager of Big Data for WANdisco. The three discuss WANdisco’s unique patented technology that allows Hadoop to run across a …

Splunk: Where ROI Pays for Itself on Day One #splunkconf

NEWS By KATHRYN BUFORD13 YEARS AGO

In their ongoing coverage of Splunk Conference 2013, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Bill Gaylord, Senior Vice President of Business Development for Splunk. In this short chat the three discuss the new benefits of search options and Splunk’s emphasis on …

Why Customers Say “Splunk Allows Me to Dream” #splunkconf

NEWS By KATHRYN BUFORD13 YEARS AGO

In their ongoing coverage of Splunk Conference 2013, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Clint Sharp, Director of Product Management, Big Data and Operational Intelligence at Splunk business analytics, in theCUBE. The three discuss the secret to Splunk’s success despite increased …

How Cloud and SaaS Power Ping Identity’s Growth #splunkconf

NEWS By KATHRYN BUFORD13 YEARS AGO

In their ongoing coverage of Splunk 2013, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Beau Christensen, Manager, Infrastructure Operations. The three discuss security, Ping Identity’s growth and it’s recent Boundary app. Vellante asks Christensen what powers Ping Identity’s growth. Christensen says the …

Oxygen Cloud Breathes Through Nirvanix Challenges #OOW13

NEWS By KATHRYN BUFORD13 YEARS AGO

In their ongoing coverage of Oracle Open world 2013, John Furrier spoke with Leo Leung, VP of Product Marketing for Oxygen Cloud in theCUBE. Oxygen Cloud had several joint customers using the now defunct Nirvanix as the storage underneath Oxygen. The three …

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