To understand what type of woman chooses computing as a career, theCUBE spoke to Cornelia Davis (pictured), senior director of technology at Pivotal Software Inc. during the Women Transforming Technology Conference in Palo Alto, CA. Davis said her first reaction to computer science was essentially: Yuck. Davis told Rebecca Knight (@knightrm), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live ...

VMware Inc. said it is committed to socially responsible policies; to the company that does not mean simply writing a check to a charity or mandating a hiring quota. At the Women Transforming Technology conference in Palo Alto, CA, Sindy Braun (pictured), vice president of social impact at VMware, said that the company’s good karma finds ...

Speakers at the Women Transforming Technology event in Palo Alto, CA, examined top-of-mind issues for women in tech, including the gender gap in technology leaders. During the event, Rebecca Knight (@knightrm) (pictured, left) and Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick) (pictured, right), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, discussed what defines a leader and how colleges and companies might better ...

When researchers and others suggest that tech companies change their cultures to accommodate individual differences, many people question what that might actually entail. Josie Gillan (pictured), senior director of engineering at Cloudera Inc., accepted her role at the company in part because of its supportive culture. “And what I mean by that is not, it’s got free ...

While tech conferences often revolve around granular hardware and software discussions, the Women Transforming Technology conference is taking a different tack, with speakers talking about social issues that affect Silicon Valley and the world. On-site at the event in Palo Alto, California, Rebecca Knight (@knightrm) (pictured, left) and Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick) (pictured, right), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s ...

Bridging the gaps from the Internet of Things concepts to real-world use cases are sobering up those companies with high hopes for connected devices. Can Artificial Intelligence fill in those gaps and streamline users’ IoT experience? Christina Ku (pictured), director at NTT Docomo Ventures Inc., says her firm has its sights set on software and services startups. ...

Companies waiting for cloud service providers to make them more agile shouldn’t hold their breath, according to technology executive Tom Joyce (pictured, right). He told John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, that agility has become a buzzword for good reason. “If I can reconfigure everything and build a new service and I can ...

SAP SE and Apple Inc. have both been synonymous with software applications for years. But only now, with a much touted partnership, are they moving to truly revolutionize apps in the enterprise as SAP opens its cloud platform to iOS developers, sweetening the pot with specialized tools for the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence interests. Where Apple falters, ...

All these cutting-edge, cloud-based solutions are going to help everyone crunch workloads in no time and turn larger profits — as soon as they can get them past security. Companies pursuing a cloud-first model are hitting a snafu: “They view their IT folks, their security folks, as the ‘department of no,'” said Amit Sinha (pictured), executive vice president ...

As if managing multi-cloud workloads were not difficult enough, security threats and tightening compliance regulations are adding even more to the pot. Can companies keep it from boiling over? “Yes, there is hope,” said  Kapil Raina (pictured), vice president of product marketing at HyTrust Inc. He said that HyTrust specialized in simplifying security and compliance for multi-cloud ...