Mark Albertson
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Analysts urge tech community to ‘lean in’ for solutions in the shadow of Las Vegas tragedy
The tragic deaths and injuries in Las Vegas on Sunday evening overshadowed the NetApp, Inc. gathering scheduled to start in the resort city the next day, but postponed until Tuesday. “We can’t not address the massacre here that happened at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. This is a time in history when we’re seeing a ...
Fixing security ‘insanity’: Start early at code level, says Cybric CTO
When Cybric Inc. launched its new security platform last November, it offered a continuous security-as-a-service platform with a different take on addressing system vulnerabilities in the enterprise. Cybric’s approach was to automate checks at the code development level to build security into any new product before it could be deployed. The idea was to change the direction by trying ...
Forget frozen code: Developers crave fresh binaries, says JFrog CEO
When it comes to making a list of major advances that have furthered the digital revolution, open-source software would likely be near the top. But open source has one drawback for developers. The documentation for how software and services were built, including licenses, is often contained in binaries that can be a challenge to manage ...
It’s time for a cybersecurity reboot, says Vidder CTO
It’s become almost a daily headline in the news now. Equifax Inc. loses confidential information on 143 million Americans in cyberattack. Hackers compromise Deloitte LLP’s usernames and passwords. Whole Foods Market victimized in credit card breach. A steady drumbeat of bad news in online security has many people wondering now if the cyberworld will ever become safe. What’s ...
Real-time data is transactional gold for Hortonworks
Is there any better example of the need for reliable “real-time data in motion” technology than a moving car? Automobiles today are computers on wheels, generating critical data such as geo-location and speed, in addition to information from multiple embedded devices and communicating it all back to the cloud. At the center of this real-time ...
Hitachi’s asset avatars: coming soon to a platform near you
With more than 100 years of experience in making industrial products, it only seems natural that Hitachi Ltd. would seek to leverage its market presence by embracing the next wave of industrial innovation: “internet of things.” Lately, the company has been making several moves to step aggressively into the internet of things realm, starting with the formation ...
Microsoft and WANdisco become ‘active/active’ in Azure deployment
A cloud giant and major player in active data replication teamed up this week to offer a new service that will replicate information at scale between on-premises and cloud environments. The technology allows Microsoft Azure customers to install WANdisco Fusion on an HDInsight cluster with a single click. “If you’ve got some data assets, Hadoop ...
It’s a data-driven, data-insight world, and Splunk lives happily in it
Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of Netscape, famously wrote in 2011 that “software is eating the world.” Doug Merritt (pictured), chief executive officer of Splunk Inc., has a different twist on Andreessen’s words of wisdom. “I’d take it one step further and say that this is becoming a data-driven and a data insight world,” Merritt said. ...
Can Splunk get to $5B in revenue? Analysts weigh the possibility
Splunk Inc. has a plan to reach 20,000 net customers and $2 billion in revenue by 2020. Some analysts think the data operational intelligence platform company could do better than that. “It’s currently a $1.2-billion company with a $10-billion valuation, so that’s nothing to sneeze at. You can see this company has the potential to ...
Deep learning advances could create big winners, but will developers care?
Deep learning models applied to big data platforms are capturing enterprise interest this week as entrepreneurs develop conversational interfaces that attempt to sound more realistic than anything else on the market. It’s a tall order, but the next Amazon.com Inc. may emerge from the fray. “The vendors who appear to be on the verge of ...









