Devony Hof

Devony Hof is a SiliconANGLE writer covering live events with theCUBE. Growing up in a family of writers in Silicon Valley, she has long been interested in the intersection between technology and the arts. She graduated from Northwestern University in 2023 with a bachelor's degree in English Literature and Theatre. In her spare time, she enjoys writing plays, poetry and anything in between, as well as acting in theatre and film around the Chicago area.

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Cracking the code of human risk in cybersecurity

Even as cybersecurity becomes ever more high-tech, KnowBe4 Inc. knows that companies cannot stay completely secure unless all the humans are on board as well. About 70 to 90 percent of data breaches come down to some level of human involvement, according to Perry Carpenter (pictured), chief human risk management strategist at KnowBe4, which helps ...

How Broadcom and VMware are redefining cyber resilience with private cloud

Since its acquisition by Broadcom Inc., VMware has homed in on cybersecurity through its VMware Cloud Foundation. The project is part of a strategy to adapt to a rapidly changing cybersecurity landscape, according to Vijay Ramachandran (pictured), vice president of product management, core infrastructure, at Broadcom. “The attacks have become a lot more sophisticated,” he ...

Infinidat fights cyberattacks with security-rich, high-end storage

With cyberattacks growing in frequency and sophistication, organizations must rethink their approach to data security, ensuring every layer of their infrastructure is fortified. Infinidat Ltd., one of the finalists for theCUBE Technology Innovation Awards, is combating the increasing rates of cyberattacks with its InfiniSafe Cyber Detection technology. The company takes pride in offering high-end, low-cost storage ...

AWS enriches partner network with new AI services

A deep network of partners is at the heart of Amazon Web Services Inc., supported by its Partner Core division. The cloud computing company has focused on developing ever-faster artificial intelligence technologies with, and for the benefit of, its partners. “We’re going to be able to modernize code really, really quickly, so anything from Java ...

Dell brings AI models to customers’ edge devices, driving the era of AI PCs

Artificial intelligence is going to get more personalized, accessible and close-to-home with the rise of the AI personal computer, or AI PC. Dell Technologies Inc.’s strategy is to help companies bring models to edge devices, while deploying at scale. The ultimate goal is a holistic AI system where customers can have the models they need, ...

AWS leads the charge in sustainable data centers with AI-ready innovations

Building modern data centers requires inventive solutions, especially in the age of energy-sucking artificial intelligence. Amazon Web Services Inc. has focused on creating highly efficient and reliable data centers. The company is embracing liquid cooling techniques and scalable infrastructure to save more energy, according to Kevin Miller (pictured), vice president of global data centers at ...

Simplifying AI: Nutanix brings ‘GPT in a box’ to Amazon’s EKS

Nutanix Inc. is strengthening its collaboration with Amazon Web Services Inc. by running its Enterprise AI solution on top of Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service, or EKS. The partnership between the two companies came about naturally, according to Debojyoti Dutta (pictured), vice president of engineering at Nutanix. Businesses are looking for consistency across their AI workloads, ...

Heroku’s revitalized platform is using AI to automate business workflows

Salesforce Inc.’s Heroku has announced a fully cloud-native version of its platform, integrating artificial intelligence technology, Agentforce. Recently, Heroku moved to a model with Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry and open-sourced its Twelve Factor principles for running and deploying applications. However, the user experience will be as straight-forward as before, according to Betty Junod (pictured), Heroku chief ...

AWS boosts cybersecurity efforts with updates to Security Lake

Among the slew of announcements at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent conference this week are updates to the company’s cybersecurity services, including Security Lake and the open-source project Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework. Amazon Security Lake was created to centralize customers’ security data in an era of increasing cyberattacks. The data lake is part of the company’s ...

Heroku announces modernized, cloud-native version of its platform

Heroku, Salesforce Inc.’s platform-as-a-service, is renovating the Heroku platform to encompass all the latest cloud technology. Since Heroku was created before Kubernetes was created, the company has had to update its platform. At this week’s Amazon re:Invent, Heroku announced pilot availability for a fully cloud-native version of the platform. “These pilot releases are incredibly important ...