Mark Albertson, Author at SiliconANGLE

Big Data

Will Hitachi grow its ecosystem to include AI developer tools and robotics?

By Mark Albertson Oct 27, 2017

Impressive customer testimonials and a strategy for big data management at the edge of computing networks were a major part of the dialogue during the first day of PentahoWorld. But as executives from the…

Cloud

Alibaba challenges Amazon for cloud supremacy, and a lot more

By Mark Albertson Oct 27, 2017

One of the more fascinating battles in technology today is playing out between Amazon and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Surging earnings have allowed Alibaba to grow nearer to Amazon.com Inc. in market capitalization over…

Big Data

IBM talks strategy and architecture with Boston ‘datarati’

By Mark Albertson Oct 27, 2017

IBM Corp.’s gathering of 150 chief data officers in Boston was a prime opportunity to have a frank discussion about the role and responsibility of a CDO in implementing the enterprise architecture blueprint. It’s…

Big Data

Hitachi’s Pentaho acquisition lined it up to pursue trillion-dollar market, says analysts

By Mark Albertson Oct 27, 2017

When Hitachi Data Systems Corp., or HDS, acquired data analytics firm Pentaho Corp. for a rumored $500 million two years ago, it marked yet another step in Hitachi’s business model transformation. What was once known as…

Big Data

The data tsunami dilemma: Who owns the data? Hitachi Vantara COO weighs in

By Mark Albertson Oct 26, 2017

A recent industry study showed that there will be 20 billion connected, data-generating “internet of things” devices in the market by 2020. Who is going to own all of that data? That’s the central…

Big Data

Chief data officer must make money, save money at the same time

By Mark Albertson Oct 26, 2017

For any chief data officer today, the job description sounds like a cross between every other top-level information technology position in the organization. Data quality, governance and management are all required skills, in addition…

Emerging Tech

Blockchain startup Tezos’ co-founder says its internal battle ‘stinks’

By Mark Albertson Oct 25, 2017

The wild world of initial coin offerings got a little wilder on Tuesday as the husband-and-wife team who founded blockchain startup Tezos appeared publicly for the first time since a behind-the-scenes battle over control…

Cloud

Long tail of cloud service providers starts in China

By Mark Albertson Oct 25, 2017

When Alibaba Group Chief Executive Officer and Founder Jack Ma decided to hold the first Computing Conference, the cloud technology event drew 120 people. This year 60,000 attendees participated, and the partner list included…

Cloud

Intel’s FPGAs bring a software mindset to the cloud marketplace

By Mark Albertson Oct 25, 2017

Intel’s recent announcement that its field programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, would now power the acceleration as a service feature in the Alibaba Cloud shines a spotlight on a changing landscape for the integrated circuit…

Cloud

From fourth place to first: Will Alibaba really become the dominant force in cloud?

By Mark Albertson Oct 25, 2017

A Gartner Inc. report places Alibaba Cloud’s (a subsidiary of Alibaba Group), market position in fourth place, and the share (2.6 percent) does not even come within sniffing distance of Amazon (30.3 percent) and…

Mark Albertson

Will Hitachi grow its ecosystem to include AI developer tools and robotics?

IBM talks strategy and architecture with Boston ‘datarati’

Hitachi’s Pentaho acquisition lined it up to pursue trillion-dollar market, says analysts

The data tsunami dilemma: Who owns the data? Hitachi Vantara COO weighs in

Chief data officer must make money, save money at the same time

Blockchain startup Tezos’ co-founder says its internal battle ‘stinks’

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