Mark Albertson
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One unfortunate outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. is that many businesses have been forced to close. The “Economic Impact Report” released by Yelp Inc. in September indicated that permanent closures had reached 97,966, which represented 60% of closed businesses overall. In …
Expansion into enterprise markets drives AWS re:Invent machine learning debuts
When Amazon Web Services Inc. held its re:Invent conference one year ago, Chief Executive Andy Jassy realized afterward that he had spent 75 minutes just on the machine learning section alone. That prompted AWS to devote an entire keynote to the subject during …
Watch live: HPE looks to leapfrog laggards with new services angle at GreenLake Day 2020
The chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is extremely bullish on his company’s GreenLake on-premises cloud service, and for good reason. Now that HPE is regaining ground in the services market, what does GreenLake’s rapid uptake mean for the company at …
Watch live: Frontline empowerment through data insight drives agenda for ThoughtSpot Beyond.2020
The current COVID-19 crisis has given new meaning to the term “frontline worker.” The key question is: Who is empowering the frontlines with data for workers to make informed, real-time decisions when it matters most? Leaders and laggards in the complicated business …
Watch live: Collaboration tech innovates for good at Onshape’s December digital event
The global collaboration software market is no longer a quiet corner of the tech industry. Revised predictions now show the market nearly tripling, from $8.9 billion in 2019 to $23 billion in 2020. And in light of the worldwide pandemic, there’s now …
Cybersecurity 2021: nation-state hacking, network vulnerability and social media manipulation
Gaze into the crystal ball and the cybersecurity picture, like much of the coming year, is decidedly murky. But there are enough signals from 2020 to form a reasonable view of what to expect in 2021 — and it is not a …
Self-serve data operations will be central focus for IoTahoe’s Adaptive Data Governance event
Even before a global pandemic eliminated many services that relied on person-to-person contact, the self-service revolution was already underway. Now, much like today’s routine use of ATMs and airline ticketing kiosks, the ability to find, catalog and gain useful insight from data …
Technology challenges offer attractive opportunities for AWS partner ecosystem
With a significant customer base and extensive infrastructure, Amazon Web Services Inc. has the capability to meet a wide range of needs for enterprise customers. But what opportunities will there be for system integrators and independent software vendors in a world dominated …
AWS sets the table for ecosystem partners and opportunities in the cloud
Today was “Partner Day” for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s virtual re:Invent conference, and much of the focus was on delivering a key message: Build the abstraction layer for the cloud, and everyone will win. An example of this could be seen in …
Growing popularity of ‘as a service’ will be focus of attention during HPE GreenLake Day 2020
There has been some positive news this year around Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s GreenLake on-premises cloud service, with hopes for the current trend to translate into stronger financial results over the long term for the company. Recent earnings results, which were released …