Mark Albertson
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Inside the race to connect quantum and exascale computing
The way to look at quantum computing is not as a replacement for traditional computing architectures, but rather as a complement to them. There is the central processing unit, the graphics processing unit and, soon, quantum. Industry experts believe that all three will drive innovation for years to come. What is not clear yet is ...
The big tent: Dell’s expanding partnerships demonstrate strategic shift in enterprise infrastructure
A significant reorganization is currently taking place within the enterprise infrastructure market, which means that Dell Technologies Inc. will play a prominent role in the outcome. To be successful, however, Dell must continue to expand its “big tent” of collaborators. Dell has made strategic partnerships a central part of its enterprise AI approach, forming key ...
A $10T bet: Coupa leverages data to build its case for AI and autonomous spend management
At the tech world’s poker table, Coupa Software Inc. is betting that $10 trillion in cumulative spend gives it an edge in artificial intelligence. Who’s to say it’s wrong? That’s how much Coupa’s executives say has been run through the company’s platform for the 20 years it has been offering business spend management and supply ...
Fuel for the AI factory: Data orchestration becomes Dell’s guiding star in the new age of machine intelligence
Dell Technologies Inc.’s launch of the AI Factory two years ago this month was positioned by the company as “advancements to manage and protect the data that fuels AI innovation.” This one phrase encapsulated what became Dell’s transformation from hardware infrastructure provider to a major supplier of data intelligence and orchestration layer solutions, and it ...
Inside Freshworks Refresh 2026: theCUBE’s analyst-led coverage airs May 21
In 2010, an engineer at a cloud-based business software company in India became enamored with an idea to build uncomplicated service software to deliver valuable customer and employee experiences and founded Freshdesk as a result. Freshdesk became Freshworks Inc. and evolved into a $12 billion IPO on NASDAQ. Today, it is one of the leading ...
What to expect during Dell Technologies World: Join theCUBE May 18-20
Following a multiyear journey to advance its artificial intelligence agenda, Dell Technologies Inc. is arriving at a moment it has long been preparing for: the AI factory as the next model for enterprise infrastructure. Dell has been building toward this moment based on a belief that artificial intelligence would lead to a fundamental shift in ...
Dell and Intel advance secure AI factories with trust-first infrastructure
The general-purpose data center computing environment is taking on a new role as the AI factory, transforming data into intelligence at industrial scale. The rise of the AI factory has captured the attention of leading enterprise players, yet there is another aspect of this new dynamic that is perhaps underappreciated – security. There is a ...
Inside IBM Think: theCUBE’s analyst-led coverage airs May 20
When it comes to artificial intelligence, enterprises want speed, lower cost and security. For IBM Corp., these are the value points it wants to provide for its hybrid AI customers. The computing giant has wrapped this strategic approach in a model that is designed to deliver outcomes at the workflow level across regulated, complex environments. ...
Agentic opportunity: OpenAI and Stripe build for rising tide of new entrepreneurial firms
In corporate parlance, any metric on a chart that shows rapid, significant growth over a short period of time is known as a “hockey stick.” On Wednesday, Stripe Inc. Chief Executive Patrick Collison shared a slide at his firm’s annual conference that looked like a promotional poster for the National Hockey League. The data reported ...
What to expect during the Dell and Intel ‘Securing the AI Factory’ event: Join theCUBE May 7
Dell Technologies’ AI Factory is emerging as a core building block for enterprise AI deployment, delivering full-stack infrastructure for training and inference since its 2024 launch. Yet as AI moves at warp speed, organizations are finding that the challenges of governance and security can slow the ability for AI tools to achieve meaningful outcomes. “The ...









