Mark Albertson
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has transformed daily life for much of the planet has also altered the role of technology in wide-ranging areas. Two of them that have seen particularly stark changes are data privacy and urban transportation. How those two fields …
Videoconferencing providers tap open source, AI and new chips to meet zooming demand
Before March 2020, the videoconferencing industry was a mix of services and team collaboration tools that had respectable enterprise participation and modest consumer usage. But in what may well represent one of the fastest technology pivots of the modern era, videoconferencing has …
Automation and agility grow an ecosystem of digital resilience
Events of the past year have created a situation where enterprises either become digital businesses or go out of business. This function, brought on by a global pandemic that brought much of the world online for work and service delivery, has placed …
Watch Live: Digital resilience in hybrid, multicloud world at Io-Tahoe Jan. 27 event
Business continuity planning is not keeping pace with enterprise migration to hybrid or multicloud. That’s according to a survey compiled last year by 451 Research, contacting 1,200 global IT decision makers. While the journey to hybrid and multicloud was clearly in process, …
Continued cloud growth will offer new opportunities for entrepreneurs to build on top
The evolution of the public cloud over the past 15 years has been all about building — creating infrastructure to power enterprises of any size on a global basis. That has set the stage for another chapter in the cloud story. It’s …
Big shifts are coming in the new era of the distributed cloud
Nothing in the tech industry stays the same as products and technologies are constantly evolving, and the cloud is a living example. The cloud started as a place where enterprises could run key applications off-premises in secure environments. That transformed to a …
Security ‘shifts left’ to debug critical code before software deployment
The cybersecurity world is a race against time: Organizations have a finite amount of resources and limited runway to find and fix bugs in code before malicious actors can discover and exploit them with damaging results. The way to best minimize this …
Aisera’s Muddu Sudhakar looks beyond compute and storage for new opportunity
After serving in senior-level executive positions over the past two decades for influential enterprise technology companies such as VMware Inc., Splunk Inc., EMC and ServiceNow Inc., Muddu Sudhakar has developed a sense of where the tech industry is headed. From his perspective, that …
Constellation’s Holger Mueller on Salesforce, Oracle, AWS and the future of cloud software
Holger Mueller has the tricky job of deciphering the future performance of a car while it moves at 140 miles per hour down the technology highway. That’s the nature of the cloud industry, which has seen a constant stream of new product offerings, …
The new data paradigm: Embrace decentralization
There are times when a centralized data source may not always be a good idea. In a paper published in May 2019, Zhamak Dehghani (pictured), director of Next Tech Incubation NA at ThoughtWorks Inc., uncovered the trouble with data lakes. Despite hefty …