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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Collaboration between AWS and Karini extends gen AI for agentic workflows and edge use cases

Enterprises are seeking to bring secure, scalable generative AI platforms to market faster, and this is leading major tech players such as Amazon Web Services Inc. to form new partnerships in the quest for choice, flexibility and value from autonomous technology. An example of this can be found in the collaboration announced this week between ...

The self-writing internet: Is Dfinity’s Caffeine AI a wakeup call for application developers?

There are fewer than 50 million software developers around the world. The Dfinity Foundation has a plan to expand that number to 5 billion. Dfinity took a step in that direction at the end of last month with its move into artificial intelligence-assisted app creation. Its alpha release of natural language-powered Caffeine AI signaled an ...

Spec-driven coding gets an AI boost with AWS’ Kiro IDE

The launch of Kiro, a development environment offered by Amazon Web Services Inc., provides a new path for software engineers to turn ideas into production-ready code, moving beyond “vibe coding” and into a specification-driven model. Kiro’s combination of “spec coding” with integrated AI agents is designed to enable developers to focus more closely on systems ...

Just Walk Out continues the self-service shopping journey for AWS

The concept seems simple, yet the technology behind it is remarkably complex. It’s pay-as-you-go, self-service in the purest form; walk into a store, pick up an item and just walk out. The technology side has been supplied by Amazon Web Services Inc. using a platform called Just Walk Out that was developed and launched in ...

Tools and app modernization support AWS cybersecurity partners in managing ongoing threats

As the technology world has grown more complicated through an explosion in artificial intelligence use cases, it has also led to challenges for cybersecurity professionals. Generative AI applications must be secured, the infrastructure around AI needs to be protected, and there is a constant worry about new threats driven by AI-powered tools. For major cloud ...

Congruity360 targets cyber threats lurking in unstructured data environments

Cloud- and AI-based threats now top the list of concerns for IT and cybersecurity professionals, as they struggle to contain the proliferation of unstructured data across modern environments. This concern was one of the key findings from a recent survey by theCUBE Research, according to Christophe Bertrand, principal analyst at theCUBE. Respondents cited cloud and ...

How Komodo Health and Snowflake use open-table formats for smarter data sharing

A survey of enterprise customers conducted by SiliconANGLE and theCUBE Research last year found that there was clear momentum toward adoption of open-table formats such as Apache Iceberg. The experience of technology platform company Komodo Health Inc. provides further evidence that the shift toward open-table formats, which enable any compute engine to operate on any ...

Snowflake prepares for AI-ready data era with agent-driven platform enhancements

At Snowflake Inc.’s annual conference in June, the company introduced several platform updates designed to expand interoperability, improve performance and reduce operational cost. The focus of these enhancements was artificial intelligence and how Snowflake intends to help customers embrace the agentic revolution. “It’s the ability to leverage organizations’ data to effectively drive productivity through AI, through ...

NetApp fuels Aston Martin F1 team’s data insights and race car performance

In Formula One racing, where cars move through a racecourse at speeds that can exceed 230 miles per hour, every millisecond matters. In its quest to maximize race car performance, the Aston Martin Formula One Team relies on Net App Inc.’s infrastructure for data insights that can bring it first across the finish line. “Every aspect ...

NetApp and Intel launch AIPod Mini to simplify AI deployment

NetApp Inc. and Intel Corp. recently unveiled a jointly developed solution to reduce customer friction in AI deployment. The offering, AIPod Mini, removes the need for deep data science familiarity and reduces complexity through a combination of Intel Xeon 6 processors, an integrated artificial intelligence software stack and NetApp’s data management technology. “What’s unique about ...