Mark Albertson
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People don’t think twice about moving from room to room inside their own home because they own the entire structure. But what about moving across the vast virtual landscape of the internet, which is owned by no one entity and has reached …
Dell Technologies’ PowerOne combines portfolio into one autonomous-driven package
Dell Technologies Inc. announced today the release of Dell EMC PowerOne, an autonomous infrastructure designed to make the deployment and management of information technology an easier process in the enterprise. With built-in intelligence, PowerOne can automate thousands of tasks and provide readily available …
Mitigating failure in microservices remains a cloud-native challenge for developers
The good news for software developers is that a cloud-native services delivery model is proving to be reliable and scalable by construction. However, it’s the construction part that still needs more work. In the second installment of a series of interviews with thought …
Viewers speak, Comcast listens and cable TV rides its own wave of digital transformation
Seventy years after the first television remote control device was created, it has now become a conversational friend. When Comcast Corp. introduced a voice-activated remote called the XR11 in 2015, the intent was to provide TV viewers a way to more easily …
Analyst: Don’t underestimate impact of JEDI contract and developer engagement on Microsoft
When the news broke last month that Microsoft Corp. would be awarded the hotly contested $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract to provide cloud services for the Department of Defense, much of the ensuing publicity focused on the size of the deal and …
Security plays key role for Schneider Electric as part of its digital transformation journey
When Schneider Electric SE, the €26-billion French multinational energy company, wanted to embrace digital transformation, it decided the effort should be focused on more than just its own internal processes. So the firm created its own digital unit with an eye toward …
How customer obsession is driving Microsoft’s channel partner strategy
With more enterprise-technology choices than ever before, customers today call the shots. This is why customer relationships are no longer merely managed in the fast-moving digital world, but they must be deeply understood to the point of obsession. And it is valuable …
It’s complicated: Examining our relationship with intelligent machines
Despite the growing use of artificial-intelligence tools on a global basis, there is no universal code of ethics to govern its use. Should there be one? That’s a key question the technology industry is beginning to wrestle with as the use of …
From embattled to embraced, Barracuda’s CEO sees a different side of Microsoft
From the standpoint of one security partner, Microsoft Corp. is a very different company today. As the current president and chief executive officer of Barracuda Networks Inc., BJ Jenkins (pictured) can recall a time when a visit to the company’s headquarters in …
Microsoft pivots digital assistant Cortana toward workplace productivity
Microsoft Corp. announced new enhancements to its personal digital assistant, Cortana, this week, and the changes appear directly aimed at improving productivity in the workplace. The announcements from Microsoft include a Cortana-driven Play My Emails service in Outlook for business communications, along with new …