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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Alation’s data integration with Salesforce supports accuracy and compliance for AI models

When the data intelligence company Alation Inc. announced its integration with the Salesforce Data Cloud earlier this month, it provided another example of how businesses were seeking to harness the power of metadata and maximize AI initiatives. The integration of Alation with Data Cloud will enable Salesforce Inc. customers to govern their data estate using ...

Healthcare becomes prime target for cyberattacks as security industry defends against AI-generated cybersecurity threats

Cybersecurity threats continue to evolve, and bad actors attacking digital environments operate on the same principles as many of the organizations they target. It’s a risk-and-reward model, where the return on investment can be quite lucrative when a victim pays ransomware to get their data returned. Ransomware attacks remain an ongoing threat, with healthcare becoming a ...

At Dreamforce, tech leaders see adoption of AI agents as next chapter of change for enterprise computing

Salesforce Inc. used its messaging over the past week to elaborate on plans for delivery of its artificial intelligence agents. Yet beyond the hoopla surrounding the rollout of the company’s Agentforce platform can be found an ongoing conversation within the tech industry around exactly where the AI train is taking us. In presentations from leading ...

What to expect at Vast Data’s ‘Enter the Cosmos’ event: Join theCUBE Oct. 1

There is disruption underway in the cloud industry itself as businesses begin to look outside of the major providers to support private artificial intelligence and AI cloud services. The growth of AI has led to a need for infrastructure that can rapidly optimize data flows and quickly scale resources to support next-generation enterprise workloads. Vast ...

Agentforce leads the next evolution for Salesforce in its AI offerings

Salesforce Inc. is making a major push to deploy AI agents on its CRM platform, an initiative the company views as the next step in enterprise artificial intelligence adoption. Building on its predictive Einstein platform for sales, service, marketing and commerce, Salesforce announced Agentforce this month as the latest chapter in the development of AI solutions. ...

Three insights you might have missed from Supermicro’s Open Storage Summit

The wave of artificial intelligence adoption sweeping the technology world has propelled a number of companies to prominence in 2024, as enterprises look for software-led, high-performance computing solutions. One such firm is Super Micro Computer Inc., which, despite recent financial headwinds, has established itself as a central player in AI deployment through its data center ...

High-wire act: Salesforce’s big bet on Agentforce spotlights volatile nature of the AI world

During his keynote remarks at Salesforce Inc.’s Dreamforce gathering in San Francisco today, Chairman and Chief Executive Marc Benioff decided to put a local spin on the company’s introduction of its artificial intelligence platform Agentforce. Making a comparison between the announcement of his company’s ambitious enterprise AI technology and the Waymo LLC autonomous cars currently rolling on ...

Hardware industry confronts challenges and embraces opportunities from AI juggernaut

While much of the attention surrounding the growth of artificial intelligence has centered on software development and building models, the engine driving AI is still hardware in the form of compute, storage and networking. Increasingly, the hardware engine has not always run smoothly as technologists grapple with the need to process massive amounts of data ...

Glean leverages Google Cloud for data silo solutions and connecting with key enterprise customers

Glean Technologies Inc. is a rising star in conversational search, harnessing the power of Google Cloud’s infrastructure to break down data silos and amplify its marketing support. Glean is an artificial intelligence platform that connects and understands a customer’s data across sources such as email, Google Drive, Slack, Teams, Jira, Confluence and ServiceNow so that practitioners ...

Network performance and IT economics help drive VMware’s private cloud strategy

A key focus of VMware by Broadcom at the Explore conference in Las Vegas last week centered around how enterprises can power network performance to drive GPUs and necessary data center infrastructure and deliver artificial intelligence. This need has been highlighted through an ongoing discussion within the tech community around the merits of various networking ...