Mark Albertson, Author at SiliconANGLE

Big Data

Fifty years old and still humming: Like the mainframe, Syncsort won’t quit

By Mark Albertson Oct 13, 2017

What are the oldest technology companies still operating today? Before Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Oracle and Microsoft there was IBM, AT&T and Hewlett-Packard. General Electric goes all the way back to Thomas Edison in…

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Is content still king? NetApp’s head of strategy challenges conventional wisdom

By Mark Albertson Oct 12, 2017

The belief that “content is king” may have been codified into the collective consciousness in 1996 when none other than Microsoft Corp.’s Bill Gates wrote an essay by the same name. At the time,…

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Big data stretch: Dell EMC goes elastic in new partnership

By Mark Albertson Oct 12, 2017

Late last month Dell EMC announced the Elastic Data Platform, designed to augment big data deployments with scalability and stronger controls around user access. The news was jointly released not just by Dell EMC,…

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InData predicts growing demand for computer vision in data science world

By Mark Albertson Oct 11, 2017

Data science has made rapid advances in automated understanding of spoken or written text. It’s now possible to take mountains of data from customer feedback, for example, and gain high-level insight into whether a…

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BMC Software takes a shift left to entice developers

By Mark Albertson Oct 11, 2017

In the technology world these days, when someone says that it’s time to shift left, they usually aren’t talking about lining up their friends for a selfie shot. Instead, shift left is an approach…

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GlaxoSmithKline leverages AtScale to keep big data big

By Mark Albertson Oct 11, 2017

It’s like celebrating a birthday with a huge, nicely decorated cake, but the only view of it is one lonely slice. That’s the feeling that many companies have when trying to visualize and use…

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IBM is so confident in PowerAI, it now comes with a guarantee

By Mark Albertson Oct 11, 2017

PowerAI, announced last year by IBM Corp., is geared for companies who might appreciate all that Watson (IBM’s cognitive computing and artificial intelligence supercomputer) has to offer. But they still desire a software toolkit…

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IT complexity, lock-in create unease in the enterprise

By Mark Albertson Oct 11, 2017

When executives from the data management and storage company NetApp Inc. meet with customers, some common themes usually emerge. Companies are trying to modernize existing infrastructure, looking to build the next-generation data center, or…

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Big Iron meets Big Data: Syncsort loves those legacy systems

By Mark Albertson Oct 10, 2017

It seems as though the technology industry has been trying to bury Big Iron (a.k.a. the mainframe computer) for the past 30 years. The demise of Big Iron was the premise behind Sun Microsystems…

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IBM wants to give data scientists a lot more free time

By Mark Albertson Oct 10, 2017

When it comes to managing data in the enterprise, words like “cleansing,” “wrangling” or “preparation” are frequently used to describe the work necessary to place information in the right shape and form so it…

Mark Albertson

Fifty years old and still humming: Like the mainframe, Syncsort won’t quit

Big data stretch: Dell EMC goes elastic in new partnership

InData predicts growing demand for computer vision in data science world

BMC Software takes a shift left to entice developers

GlaxoSmithKline leverages AtScale to keep big data big

IBM is so confident in PowerAI, it now comes with a guarantee

Big Iron meets Big Data: Syncsort loves those legacy systems

IBM wants to give data scientists a lot more free time

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