Mark Albertson

Mark Albertson is a senior writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. He is an experienced technology reporter, recognized by Onalytica as a "Who's Who In Cloud Influencer" and named to Peerlyst’s “24 Powerful Cybersecurity Journalists.” Prior to SiliconANGLE, Mark wrote for the San Francisco Examiner, Blasting News, and CBS-Bay Area.

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Kyvos leverages OLAP tech to deliver business intelligence at scale

Once enterprise data is poured into the data lake, it looks much as a large body of liquid would. Lots of water as far as the eye can see, without any distinguishing features. To help businesses solve the problem of finding distinct and valuable meaning from a large amount of data, Kyvos Insights Inc. has ...

Hammerspace emerges from stealth to disrupt the traditional NAS files market

In the cartoon world, hammerspace is an extradimensional place where a character can suddenly pluck a mallet out of thin air, bash a hapless figure nearby, and then swiftly return it out of sight. Now a company by the same name is seeking to do something similar with data in the real world of network-attached ...

Mutual of Omaha retools customer contact operations with Amazon Connect

In 2017, Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. knew it had to make a change. The insurance and financial services giant’s business strategy required a new operating model powered by more sophisticated technology to drive customer service. So the company turned to Accenture LLP, which led them to an automated cloud-based solution —Amazon Connect. “With Mutual of ...

Verizon dials up the AWS cloud for digital transformation

This year has been a busy one in the relationship between Amazon Web Services Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. First there was the move of Oath Inc., the Verizon subsidiary formed from the purchase of AOL and Yahoo, to the AWS Cloud. That was swiftly followed a few weeks later by the news that Verizon ...

Coffee, tea and cloud: How Capital One is reshaping its core banking platform

Walk into a bank branch today and the scene is usually a row of teller windows flanked by employees in business attire having hushed conversations in nearby cubicles. Yet, Capital One Financial Corp. is working to change that image by opening a string of branches in major U.S. cities where customers are more likely to ...

Accenture, AWS launch expanded set of innovation services for cloud clients

For many enterprises, cloud computing adoption is only a first step. The more difficult challenge comes in leveraging cloud technology to drive sustained business value and growth. With this in mind, Accenture LLP and Amazon Web Services Inc. launched the Accenture AWS Business Group, or AABG, in 2015 to help clients leverage resources in both ...
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Lessons from IBM and Wang: Startups will write next chapter for John Chambers after Cisco

Clutching his fishing pole, the six-year-old boy was swept along the rapids of a raging West Virginia river. Only fate and the calming words of his own father nearby would coalesce to save Cisco Systems Inc.’s future leader. It was a near-death experience that John Chambers (pictured) would not soon forget. A perilous day on the ...

KDDI, Toyota and Accenture leverage combined data to improve taxis and manufacturing

Data by itself is powerful, but data combined with other data can have even greater impact. Data’s combined power was highlighted this year through a collaborative effort spearheaded by KDDI Corp., one of Japan’s largest mobile carriers, Toyota Motor Corp., and Accenture PLC, as the three firms teamed up to make the lives of taxi ...

McAfee moves further into cloud with support for AWS Security Hub

While many consider cloud computing to be fairly secure, anything is hackable. And McAfee LLC has seen more than its share of vulnerabilities, both on-premises and in the cloud. So the company recently announced at AWS re:Invent that it would support Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Security Hub in the interest of managing multiple data points and dashboards. ...

McAfee, AWS teamup brings new data security monitoring tools to the cloud

While many enterprise organizations have enthusiastically embraced the migration of databases from on-premises data centers to the cloud, there are still trade-offs. One of these has been the loss of security monitoring tools, and it is a situation that McAfee LLC is working with Amazon Web Services Inc. to fix. “Whenever you start migrating databases ...