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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AWS Summit keynote spotlights machine learning upgrades amidst cloud wars

Amazon Web Services Inc. kicked off its one-day summit in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday with keynote presentations that covered a number of cloud services, but the company’s focus was clearly on SageMaker, designed to create and deploy machine learning algorithms. AWS announced multiple updates to SageMaker at the event, including a “local mode,” which ...

Kubernetes, Greenplum and GemFire fuel Pivotal Software’s enterprise strategy

When Pivotal Software Inc. partnered with Google and VMware Inc. in 2017 to create a managed Kubernetes offering called Pivotal Container Service, or PKS, it was only a matter of time before the initial beta release progressed to general availability. That time came in February, when it was announced that the service would now enable ...

As cloud technologies evolve, Informatica weathers storm of change

During one social event at a data conference in San Jose, California, last month, Murthy Mathiprakasam (pictured) pulled up a chair and began to chat with the information technology executive of a large insurance company, an Informatica Corp. customer. The IT executive was blunt: He was preparing to remove an entire portfolio of cloud technologies ...

AI-ready infrastructure accelerates data science at scale

In a move to simplify artificial intelligence deployment within enterprise computing infrastructures, Pure Storage Inc. has teamed up with hardware maker Nvidia Corp. Using four Nvidia DGX-1 supercomputers, Pure adds its FlashBlade array to create AIRI, the latest tool for the AI-ready infrastructure. “You pull compute and storage and networking all into this compact design so ...

Building predictive data analytics models is now a team sport

Running a data analytics division inside a large company today is like being the head coach at a football all-star game. Everyone on the field has a different-looking helmet, but they still need to work together as a team. At any given time, an analytics group might have machine learning engineers, predictive analytics engineers, data ...

China’s businesses and cities benefiting from this big data platform

In 2011, Yuanhao Sun (pictured) was part of the Intel team that released the first enterprise Apache Hadoop in China. Seven years later, he is leading a team at Transwarp Technology Inc. that built a distributed in-memory analysis engine and real-time, large-scale computation platform, claiming better performance of open-source Hadoop by factors of 10 to ...
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The era of big data moves into the realm of action and ethics

With big data and its consequences very much in the news this year, the conversation around the handling of information streams is turning toward issues such as privacy and bias. The big data era has moved from the technical requirements, such as ingestion and storage, into the realm of action, where enterprises need to put data ...

IBM Watson with blockchain boost adds visibility to supply chain disruptions

IBM Corp. has made big bets on Watson, its artificial intelligence platform, and the revolutionary ledger system blockchain. So, it only makes sense that the company would ultimately combine the two for the next generation of transaction systems. One key area that could reap the benefits of what AI and a distributed ledger have to ...

Security, 5G help drive Nuage Networks’ software-defined WAN strategy

The software-defined wide area network represents a technology solution that is quietly working its way into the enterprise picture. Once viewed as a valuable connectivity solution for organizations with multiple branches, SD-WAN is gaining traction within the enterprise for its ability to manage applications delivery in the multicloud world. “It is a combination of factors ...

Latest Kubernetes update sets stage for KubeCon in May

With the release of Kubernetes 1.10 in March, developers and users familiar with the project will have plenty to discuss when the community gathers in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 2 through 4 for KubeCon, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference. The first update in 2018 revealed a stronger focus on security, networking and storage, themes that will ...