Mark Albertson
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As one of the largest health benefits companies in the U.S., Anthem Inc. maintains a broad portfolio of plans and related services. That requires a sophisticated information-technology structure to support it, and a key element of Anthem’s approach is to provide its …
Novartis embraces the digital world to reimagine medicine for patients
In a highly regulated space such as the pharmaceutical industry, the process of digital transformation has been slower than in other sectors. However, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG has been focused on changing this narrative in recent years as it embraced …
CenturyLink partners with VMware and AWS to deliver hybrid-cloud solutions
When it comes to network integration, connectivity and workload management, CenturyLink Inc. has positioned itself squarely in the hybrid-cloud ecosystem. In August, the company announced the launch of its Private Cloud Service for VMware Inc. on AWS. CenturyLink has already seen use …
Alation grows revenue and enterprise users through analytics-driven data cataloging
When the internet was taking off in the 1990s, finding a web page was an exercise in time and patience. Then search engines, such as Yahoo and Google, came along, and rapidly accessing information became infinitely easier after that. Companies such as …
As computing explodes at the network edge, cloud providers and telcos jockey for the lead
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan once sang. In the world of enterprise technology, the wind is blowing toward the network edge. Just in the past month, the two largest public cloud players – Amazon …
Io-Tahoe ties data to regulatory requirements as new privacy law is set to take effect
In less than a month, the California Consumer Privacy Act takes effect. The new law regulates the handling of customer information by businesses and imposes fines on those firms that fail to comply. California’s new law, which applies to any company with more …
Under Andy Jassy’s leadership, AWS keeps marching to its own tune
Last week’s gathering at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas featured plenty of news about new cloud products and services, but there was also music — lots and lots of music. In his three-hour keynote address last Tuesday, Amazon Web Services Inc. Chief …
Veritas becomes AWS Outposts partner as enterprises seek to protect data
One of the many announcements to come from the AWS re:Invent gathering in Las Vegas last week was the general availability of Outposts, the company’s fully managed service to extend cloud infrastructure into the data center. There are a number of partners …
Malicious attackers are zeroing in on developers for their next big score
Cybercriminals are training their sights on developers, and this is raising alarm bells in the global security community. It’s a concern because one recent survey by GitLab Inc.found deficiencies in a developer’s ability to spot security holes for the code they create. …
Not so fast: Analyst says there are questions over whether Microsoft can deliver on JEDI
The decision in October to award the $10-billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, cloud modernization contract to Microsoft Corp. caught a number of industry observers by surprise. There could be more surprises to follow. At least one official within the Department …