Mark Albertson
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The rise of supercloud has raised an intriguing question about the cloud market’s future: How will the major cloud providers react to having companies such as Snowflake Inc., Zscaler Inc. and Databricks Inc. building highly successful businesses on top of hyperscale platforms? …
Application delivery drives Prosimo’s strategy for brewing supercloud services
The growth of superclouds, abstraction layers above and across hyperscale infrastructure, is leading to the creation of firms specifically designed to provide such services. One of these is Prosimo.io, a company that built its business around supporting a multicloud infrastructure strategy for …
At Black Hat, tech confronts the cyber consequences of Ukraine war, Log4j and Web3
Technology has unintended consequences, and this reality is getting much of the security world’s focus as events play out this year. There was news at the Black Hat 2022 cybersecurity conference this week about creating an open standard for analyzing enterprise data, …
Three insights you might have missed from Monaco Crypto Summit
The internet we know today, commonly referred to as Web 2.0, is dominated by companies providing services in exchange for user data. Web3 represents the internet that may soon rise to prominence, characterized by decentralized finance, blockchain-driven applications and participation in the metaverse. …
Open hybrid cloud and quantum computing shape future for Red Hat thought leaders
This year’s Red Hat Summit gathering in early May provided an opportunity to step back from the enterprise computing treadmill and assess the long-term implications of where network innovation is headed. Along with news surrounding an edge platform opportunity with General Motors …
Three insights you might have missed from AWS re:Inforce 2022
One message coming out of AWS re:Inforce in July was that every transaction at scale has become the “new perimeter.” This will significantly test enterprise security, as organizations must contend with an expanding number of cloud services, infrastructure complexity, and an avalanche …
‘Clouderati’ panel of industry experts assesses future of supercloud in a multicloud world
Despite the cloud’s numerous benefits, enterprise frustration is building over challenges compounded by the embrace of multicloud. This was one of the conclusions documented by F5 Inc. in its annual “State of Application Strategy” report that was released this year. With nearly …
Complicated rivalry between Snowflake and Databricks spotlights key trends in enterprise computing
There have been legendary rivalries among tech companies over decades: Amazon versus Microsoft and Google in cloud, Salesforce versus Oracle and SAP, Twitch versus YouTube, Tesla versus the tech divisions of an entire automotive industry. Now there’s a growing contest between enterprise …
IT industry grapples with complexity and security as Kubernetes adoption grows
The information technology industry has a complexity problem, and it is leading to deeper conversations among thought leaders around how to solve it. The days of building applications on one server using a monolithic architecture have transformed into developing numerous microservices, packaging …
AWS’ Clint Crosier strives to make the world a better place from space
It was through leaps in technology that the U.S. space program was able to land humans on the Moon in 1969. Over half a century later, technology is again transforming the space industry in major ways. While commercialized space flight companies such …