Mark Albertson
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Red Hat’s CTO sees open-source as driver of choice and consistency in hybrid environments
A case can certainly be made that Red Hat Inc. and the open-source movement have commoditized portions of the information-technology infrastructure. A much wider range of tools and systems are now available to enterprises than ever before. This trend is just part of the open-source journey, one that Chris Wright (pictured), as the senior vice ...
Refinitiv rides wave of interest in public cloud to deliver financial market data
Financial markets thrive on accessible data, and one company is more than willing to meet that need. Refinitiv Ltd., the global provider of financial markets information and infrastructure, expanded its real-time data delivery service using Amazon Web Services Inc. last year to meet rising customer demand. The company’s move was yet another indicator that financial ...
Built on AWS, Druva helps customers navigate through business and technology change
Being a software-as-a-service platform built on Amazon Web Services Inc., Druva Inc. has come to fully appreciate the change that migration to a cloud infrastructure can bring. Druva relies on the AWS platform to help its customers manage data from end-to-end, and its growth as a company has provided a valuable perspective on the impact ...
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AWS sends message to enterprises that it’s fully stocked for cloud shopping needs
In the annual holiday shopping season, there’s Black Friday, Cyber Monday and now Cloud Tuesday. When it comes to one-stop shopping, Amazon Web Services Inc. is starting to closely resemble its parent company. Over the course of his three-hour keynote on Tuesday at AWS re:Invent, Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy (pictured) revealed nearly 30 new cloud-related ...
In the new bot economy, cloud robotics and AI transform work and society in far-reaching ways
As the calendar reaches its last month in 2019, the bot is hot. Research firm Tractica LLC has forecast that a combination of cloud-computing and robotic hardware, software and services will propel global revenue in the cloud robotics field from single digits to in excess of $170 billion within the next five years. This is ...
AWS savors commanding position in cloud market as attendees gather for re:Invent 2019
There’s no lack of statistics that show how Amazon Web Services Inc., with 41% of the infrastructure-as-a-service market, remains the winner and still champion of the public cloud. According to data compiled by Visual Capitalist, one-third of the people who access websites every day on the internet are clicking into domains powered by AWS. The ...
Growth curve for SaaS will continue to drive innovation and growth, says Zscaler executive
Software as a service is taking a big bite out of the licensed software market in the enterprise. Recent analysis by Synergy Research Group found that global spending for cloud-based software will exceed $100 billion next year and is growing at 30% annually. If software is truly going to eat the world, then SaaS has ...
No free puppy: How D2iQ helps customers navigate open-source journey in cloud-native world
What do free goldfish, puppies, and open-source software have in common? When the gifts come home, there’s actually a lot of time and expense that goes into keeping them all alive and thriving. As much as open-source tools have been a major contributing factor in advancing the cause of technology for enterprise businesses today, it ...
Cloud and container management tools from Pure Storage address need for simplicity
It doesn’t seem like much can slow the hot pace of container adoption these days, but a lack of persistent storage support for containerized applications could apply the brakes. Sensing an opportunity to simplify the scale-out and presentation of arrays and servers to the container orchestrator, Pure Storage Inc. developed a tool for developers that ...
Easier workload migration in a hybrid world is the promised land for NetApp
One hybrid cloud data services and management company wants to make developers’ lives easier. NetApp Inc. recently announced general availability of Cloud Volumes Service and Cloud Volumes ONTAP for the Google Cloud Platform. The new solutions are designed to provide fully managed, cloud-native file services for running workloads in production and deliver storage management enterprise ...









