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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Pioneering the future of generative AI: A deep dive with Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia

The explosive growth of interest in generative artificial intelligence has led to a belief among some tech industry leaders that the massive datasets and common access to information provided by engines such as ChatGPT will lead to a new wave of customization in the enterprise. That outcome was echoed by Matei Zaharia (pictured), co-founder and ...
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Delta Lake’s growth and AI hype among the central topics on second day of Data + AI Summit

The Databricks Data + AI Summit has provided an opportunity for tech practitioners to assess key trends and growth vectors in the industry. One benchmark offered during the event involved Delta Lake, the optimized storage layer for storing data and tables in the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. As noted by theCUBE industry analyst Rob Strechay (pictured, ...

BNY Mellon’s Pershing X: Pioneering interoperability in wealth management

Banks or insurers have been grappling with a legacy technology problem. Institutions have incrementally added technologies over time for systems that don’t speak to each other, and this has created points of friction with customers. To address this interoperability issue, BNY Mellon created its own startup to provide wealth advisors with a solution that seamlessly ...

LiveRamp embraces cloud technologies to improve marketing experience for advertisers and consumers

In 2022, LiveRamp Holdings Inc. announced that it would bring its online identity and transaction capabilities to Snowflake Inc.’s Media Data Cloud. LiveRamp was natively embedding its platform into customers’ cloud environments to deliver a more robust data foundation. The news highlighted how important data platforms have become to marketers as they seek to drive ...

Snowflake Data Cloud and machine learning drive Instacart’s online model

The e-commerce provider Maplebear Inc. (d/b/a Instacart) has two constituencies to satisfy. It must meet the needs of customers who order groceries online while helping retailers expand their businesses. To fulfill this dual mission, Instacart relies on the Snowflake Inc. Data Cloud and the machine learning libraries and tools associated with it. “There is a ...

Exxon Mobil breaks down silos and modernizes systems as it embraces the Data Cloud

A company that has been in business for well over a century, and with operations spread across the globe, can truly collect a lot of data. Such is the case for Exxon Mobil Corp., one of the world’s largest publicly held international oil and gas companies. The petroleum giant was interested in consolidating its extensive ...
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Three insights you might have missed from HPE Discover

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is committed to the hybrid computing model, and it intends to draw on its extensive network of partners to deliver it for customers. Those were two of the clear messages from HPE Discover in Las Vegas this month as the company consolidated numerous services within its GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform and highlighted ...

Capital One’s Slingshot enhancements target cloud cost visibility for Snowflake users

The software division for Capital One Financial Corp. has released enhancements for a tool designed to track cost, performance and usage for Snowflake accounts. The product, Slingshot, is a set of templates, custom workflows and controls that Capital One developed originally for internal use. The financial services giant decided to bring Slingshot to market last ...

Customer choice shapes HPE’s Ezmeral strategy for cloud-to-edge data and analytics

Modern data tools and analytics workloads may be the key focus for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s Ezmeral software platform, but the primary driver is customer choice. By building a software portfolio of open-source solutions to help organizations capitalize on an edge-to-cloud strategy, HPE believes it is providing options that enterprises value in today’s data-driven world. ...

Integration of Red Hat services with HPE GreenLake offers optimization at the edge

Last year, during HPE Discover 2022, Red Hat Enterprise Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced a plan to combine services on HPE GreenLake, including OpenShift, Ansible and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. One year later, those Red Hat services have been integrated into the HPE GreenLake platform, a key step for both companies in the ...