Mark Albertson, Author at SiliconANGLE

Blockchain

Accenture’s focus on business trends shifts from SMAC to DARQ Power

By Mark Albertson Feb 11, 2019

Six years ago, digital trends were commonly summarized under SMAC, which stood for social, media, analytics and cloud. Accenture PLC has captured the current digital evolution as DARQ Power, represented by distributed ledger technology,…

Security

Telemetry and machine learning provide foundation for Cisco’s cyberattack defense

By Mark Albertson Feb 11, 2019

Ransomware is so 2018. As online criminals have realized that ransomware didn’t yield a recurring revenue stream, they have turned instead to cryptojacking, the takeover of computer networks by massive botnets to mine cryptocurrency.…

Cloud

Five9 leverages AI and cloud to revolutionize the contact center business

By Mark Albertson Feb 8, 2019

In the near future, calls into a customer contact center used for “training purposes” will no longer involve people in seats listening to an instructor. The training will be for machine-learning models, and the…

Cloud

Enterprise cloud consultant opens new channels of communication in tech community

By Mark Albertson Feb 8, 2019

When Chris Williams (pictured), enterprise cloud consultant at GreenPages Technology Solutions, was awarded the vExpert Cloud Specialist designation by VMware Inc. in 2017, he expressed his passion for learning new skills and sharing his…

Cloud

PS Lifestyle turns to the cloud for modernizing its hair salon business

By Mark Albertson Feb 7, 2019

Many industries have been transformed by a shift to the cloud, and the hair-styling profession is no exception. PS Lifestyle, whose business transformed hair salons in assisted senior-living facilities into professional centers and spas,…

Apps

System guru offers advice: Automate yourself into a new job

By Mark Albertson Feb 7, 2019

Is the system administrator an endangered species, about to join company with the African wild dog, Bornean orangutan, and the black-footed ferret? One experienced systems administrator doesn’t think so, but it will require refocusing…

Emerging Tech

Toshiba moves forward with UFS as next-generation flash storage

By Mark Albertson Feb 5, 2019

Today’s tech devices offer different features and user services, but there are at least two elements common to every product. They all run on processors and need storage. Most smartphone users have no idea…

Cloud

To the edge and back: Cisco stakes its claim to the application-centric infrastructure

By Mark Albertson Feb 4, 2019

A steady stream of announcements from the Cisco Live gathering in Barcelona last week provided a clear message that Cisco Systems Inc. was positioning itself to take multicloud programmability to the edge, accompanied by…

IoT

How Liz Centoni makes sure Cisco has a seat at the IoT table

By Mark Albertson Feb 4, 2019

Any doubts about Cisco Systems Inc.’s commitment to providing products and services for the internet of things space were quickly erased in Barcelona, Spain, this past week. The networking giant rolled out a series…

Big Data

After years of hugging routers, Cisco CIO embraces new operational model

By Mark Albertson Feb 1, 2019

Guiding the information technology operation of a Fortune 100 company can be a challenge even when times are relatively stable. Throw in the transformation of Cisco Systems Inc. from being a network hardware company…

Mark Albertson

Telemetry and machine learning provide foundation for Cisco’s cyberattack defense

Toshiba moves forward with UFS as next-generation flash storage

To the edge and back: Cisco stakes its claim to the application-centric infrastructure

How Liz Centoni makes sure Cisco has a seat at the IoT table

After years of hugging routers, Cisco CIO embraces new operational model

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