R. Danes

R. Danes is a senior writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, who is based on the East Coast. Her fondness for old media and longform journalism converges with an interest in new media and digital content trends. Exploring digital disruption in the realm of publications, articles and writing led her to writing articles about digital disruption everywhere. Got a news tip? Please tweet us @siliconangle

Latest from R. Danes

Auto tech platform wars: Ford battles to move ahead of the competition | #FordInnovation

The people at Ford Motor Co. are making moves to become a technologically advanced car company. The Ford Research and Innovation Center in Palo Alto opened a year ago to further the company’s branching into connectivity, mobility and autonomous vehicles. Hosts John Furrier and Jeff Frick of John Furrier and Jeff Frick, cohosts of theCUBE, from ...

From car to smartcar: Is this automotive’s iPhone moment? | #FordInnovation

The automotive industry is having a moment reminiscent of the introduction of Apple’s iPhone. And while we are still feeling our way around, everyone knows smart is the future. According to Marcy Klevorn, chief information officer at Ford Motor Co., the company wants to be at the forefront of the automotive smart shift. Ford is ...

Can ‘Coopetition’ keep Ford ahead of the curve? | #FordInnovation

Coopetition is Silicon Valley lingo for the balance achieved by competing companies who cooperate to help one another innovate, perform and sell more. This break from the old “don’t ask, don’t tell” model to a more open and communicative relationship between competitors is working quite nicely for Ford Motor Co., according to the company’s VP of ...

From insight to action: What’s next for predictive analytics? | #RMWisdom16

Tech wizards and regular business people alike have been “oohing and ahhing” over the insights possible through data mining for years. The question now, according to Peter Lee, president and CEO of RapidMiner (Rapid-I, Inc.), is how can we apply those insights to bring real value to people? Lee told Dave Vellante, cohost of theCUBE, from ...

Will Tableau be a verb in years to come? | #RMWisdom16

Tableau is growing tentacles and expanding outside of business analytics, according to Paul Lilford, senior director of technology and market intelligence at Tableau Software, Inc. Lilford spoke to Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, about the novel ways consumers are utilizing the software. Founded in 2003, the Seattle, Washington-based ...

Has going private made BMC more innovative? | #BMCDay

Mati Pitkanen knows BMC Software, Inc. like few others. As senior director of worldwide performance and analytics, she has worked for the company in different capacities for two decades. “I like to say that I was raised by BMC,” Pitkanen said. “In January, I will have been with BMC for 20 years,” she told Stu ...

Is capacity planning the best way to save? | #BMCDay

It’s been said that the cheapest infrastructure you can get is the stuff you already own. Milan-based company Moviri SpA takes those words to heart and offers custom capacity planning and IT optimization. The remarkable thing, said Renato Bonomini, manager of the company’s U.S. operations (Moviri, Inc.), is that businesses rarely know how much they could ...

Are we headed for a new application boom? | #HPEDiscover

As fully integrated software and DevOps spread to more and more businesses, the possibilities of rapid application creation and deployment are growing. According to K.C. Choi, VP of global solutions architecture and engineering at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE), the appetite for fresh, more user friendly applications is present and pulsing. However, he said that whether ...

Cheaper, faster, better: Is flash storage the trifecta? | #HPEDiscover

As the disk-to-flash storage disruption rolls on, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) aims to position itself at the fore with flash storage built into its new “composable” infrastructure. Manish Goel, SVP and GM of HP Storage, spoke to Dave Vellante and John Furrier, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during HPE Discover 2015 in London about ...

Do the benefits of all-flash storage justify the expense? | #HPEDiscover

The move to flash storage has taken the industry by storm, but some still balk at the expense and wonder if it’s worth it. John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, sat down with Vish Mulchand, senior director of product management and marketing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE), during HPE ...