Betsy Amy-Vogt

Betsy Amy-Vogt is a staff writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. A digital nomad before the term existed, Betsy started her writing career at a tech startup in Austin, Texas, before taking her laptop off around the globe. When not writing tech news blogs or working on her latest sci-fi fantasy novel, she volunteers at Hekab Be bilingual library and community center in Akumal, Mexico. Got news? Tweet it to @siliconangle.

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KubeCampus co-located event shows need for hands-on Kubernetes training

Use of Kubernetes is close to 100% within the cloud-native community, with 96% of organizations using or evaluating the technology, according to the 2021 Cloud Native Survey. But there are barriers to adoption, with a big one being the lack of trained Kubernetes engineers. Close to 50% of respondents to the Canonical 2022 “Kubernetes and ...

WebAssembly enables Fermyon to deliver serverless architecture that executes at sub 1 millisecond speeds

WebAssembly, AKA Wasm, first hit theCUBE community radar during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe last May. Less than six months later, the technology was riding a wave of hype as everyone at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA wanted to know more about the binary instruction format that was designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages. ...

The future of data and cloud within healthcare and pharmaceutical research

The rapid development of COVID-19 vaccinations demonstrated how artificial intelligence and machine learning are powerful tools to speed the drug development process. As the pandemic wanes, these technologies continue to drive a new wave of breakthroughs in healthcare, with new drugs and improved treatments directly benefiting individual patients and leading the way toward a healthier ...

Supercloud panelists discuss how data applications will change the future of enterprise technology

Wikibon’s Supercloud Definition 3.0 provides a comprehensive description of the architectural model evolving out of today’s sprawl of multi and hybrid clouds. The paper was written after the first Supercloud event hosted by theCUBE and provides a definition that incorporates the opinions and technological nuances discussed by experts during that event. While it is informative, ...

Taking the sting out of ransomware by keeping data secure and ready to restore

As cybercrime rates continue to rise, the odds increase on needing to run that ransomware recovery playbook for real. But when the push comes to the shove, is it possible to be sure that every bit of important data is backed up and retrievable? “To me, the blind spots are the scariest part of a ...

An optimistic outlook leads The Storage Alchemist on a journey to discover his career destiny

TheCUBE’s Executive Spotlight Series taps into the knowledge base of theCUBE alumni to share the accumulated wisdom of industry leaders with our community. In this feature, we speak with Steve Kenniston, senior cybersecurity consultant, Dell Technologies Inc. who is known to followers of his blog and podcasts as The Storage Alchemist. Alchemists take commonplace materials and transform ...
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Three insights you might have missed from the ‘Accelerating Business Transformation’ event

The unlikely partnership of VMware Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. is now more than five years old. And far from one or both of the parties regretting the decision, as analysts predicted in 2016 when it was first announced, the companies have deepened the relationship and widened the capabilities of the VMware Cloud on ...

What’s the buzz? Crossplane shows universal promise in scaling open-source builds

Gathering buzz at KubeCon 2022 was Crossplane, the open-source project by universal cloud platform Upbound Inc. Alongside many mentions in breakout sessions, Crossplane received a shout-out during an energetic keynote from Jonny Langefeld, the well-known engineer from autonomous vehicle company Cruise LLC. “They mentioned Crossplane, they mentioned Upbound, they mentioned the work that we’re doing ...

Three insights you might have missed from the ‘Trusted Infrastructure: Episode 2’ event

Global cybercrime damages are estimated to reach $6 trillion in 2022, marking another successful year for opportunistic hackers profiting from the breakdown of traditional castle-and-moat strategies. Organizations are facing the hard truths that cyberattacks are now an inevitability, and undetected breaches could be putting their assets, and reputations, at risk. Cyber resilience – the ability to resist ...

How ‘VMware Cloud on AWS’ is raising the bar on cloud migration

VMware Cloud on AWS was created to enable companies to operate across multiple clouds without restrictions. The partnership between Amazon Web Services Inc. and VMware Inc. was controversial when it began about five years ago, but it served a customer need that most analysts didn’t yet see. “A lot of people said it was a ...