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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Enhancements for SageMaker and Bedrock highlight AWS vision for integrated AI platform

Product announcements from Amazon Web Services Inc. this week highlighted the cloud giant’s interest in positioning itself at the center of the artificial intelligence conversation by offering a fully integrated AI platform. Key elements in that approach involve the firm’s SageMaker and Bedrock offerings. “We want AWS to be the best place for customers to ...

Embracing ‘simplexity:’ Amazon CTO Werner Vogels offers key principles for managing the complex IT world

With 20 years of experience running one of the world’s largest distributed computer systems for online retail giant Amazon.com Inc., Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels knows a little bit about complexity. His message, delivered during a keynote address today, is that though complexity is inevitable in the computer world, it can also be managed to ...
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Exclusive: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reveals AWS’ strategy for building the enterprise AI platform

Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Andy Jassy made an unscheduled appearance at the AWS re:Invent cloud conference Tuesday to announce the company’s bid to reshape the world of artificial intelligence models. Today, in an exclusive interview with SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE, Jassy doubled down on how important he views his company’s AI initiatives. “This is the biggest change since the ...

Fast-moving and disruptive: Top AWS technologist outlines vision for AI’s enterprise future

The near-term future of enterprise AI will be model-driven, democratized, powered by agents, and under increasing pressure to control costs. These key trends were highlighted in today’s keynote presentation by Swami Sivasubramanian (pictured), vice president of AI and data at Amazon Web Services Inc., who spoke at the company’s annual re:Invent gathering in Las Vegas. His ...

Salesforce’s Heroku emerges as a valuable developer tool for AI app deployment

As part of the Salesforce Inc. family of offerings, Heroku has become a useful tool for developers to build, run and operate applications entirely in the cloud. It has also emerged as an effective way to navigate the tricky process of AI app deployment at scale. “Heroku is well-known for taking things that are complicated ...

Scaling up: At re:Invent, AWS focuses on enterprise AI with advances in Bedrock and launch of new models

The executive who helped turn spare computer capacity into the largest cloud business in the world returned to the keynote stage at AWS re:Invent today to announce Amazon.com Inc.’s bid to reshape the world of artificial intelligence models. Andy Jassy (pictured), who succeeded Jeff Bezos to became chief executive of retail giant Amazon in 2021 after previously ...

New tools for building and deploying enterprise AI agents

Intelligent pieces of software, known as enterprise AI agents, that can perform specific tasks are emerging as a natural outcome of generative artificial intelligence. Salesforce Inc.’s MuleSoft recently announced a composability solution to help organizations build discrete AI services to facilitate this technology. MuleSoft and Salesforce are tackling the challenging computer science problem of converting an ...

Microsoft and Hitachi Vantara team up for full stack hybrid cloud solution

Hitachi Vantara LLC is building on a collaboration with Microsoft Corp. announced last year to create an AI-ready full stack platform leveraging Azure for delivering a hybrid cloud solution. The agreement between the two companies launched Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for Azure Stack HCI, delivering enhanced cloud management across multiple environments encompassing data centers and ...

Dell supports Microsoft Azure with focus on data security and simplified AI workloads

The announcement from Dell Technologies Inc. this week that it would introduce new products and services for Microsoft Corp. compute platforms points towards continued enterprise customer interest in data protection, resilience and security. It also highlights customer interest in simplifying deployment of AI workloads in multicloud environments such as Microsoft Azure. “Listening to customer feedback ...

DDN appliance upgrades boost GPU performance and capacity efficiency for AI processing

With the launch this week of upgrades for its data intelligence platform, DataDirect Networks Inc. has signaled its intent to bring significant scalability and GPU performance to the infrastructure necessary for processing AI workloads. The company’s deep integration with Nvidia Corp. GPUs and the introduction of its next generation A³I data platform are designed to ...