Mark Albertson
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The curse of having a lot of marketing data is that it can suddenly bring analysis and insight to a grinding halt. A report from the Forbes Marketing and Accountability Initiative recently found that an astounding 89% of marketing executives can’t quantify …
Launch of Wi-Fi 6 improves bandwidth, client density to drive wireless future
Buffering, low bars, and dropped connectivity are all terms used to describe frustration with today’s wireless experience. However, a new wireless standard is coming that may make those words a distant memory. Wi-Fi 6, also known by the technical standard 802.11ax, is …
Actifio extends backup software on Google Cloud for ease and simplicity
The field of copy data management may not always attract the greatest attention in the enterprise space, but it plays an increasingly important role for enterprises seeking to modernize and simplify infrastructure, especially in a hybrid world. One of the key companies …
NetApp’s Cloud Volumes for Google comes to the aid of Cardinal Health
The partnership between NetApp Inc. and Google Cloud reached another milestone last week when NetApp was named the Technology Partner of the Year for Infrastructure. The Cloud Volumes service for Google, launched by NetApp approximately one year ago, has become a simple …
Value is the new lock-in: Apigee seeks to transform applications in a hybrid world
With all of the talk in the enterprise about applications, what do they really mean to the average employee? In many instances, applications drive personalization on the web. One example of this can be found in the growth of “my” sites, with the …
Google Fellow Eric Brewer offers insight into Anthos and open-source strategy
While there is a great deal of evidence that enterprises are moving en masse to the cloud, one key piece of data puts the transformation in perspective. According to statistics cited by Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian, 80% of workloads …
NetApp CEO sees integration as the core asset in a hybrid world
Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian’s twin brother, George, shares a lot more than the same personal features. Both are now CEOs of major technology businesses, both grew up together in India and both possess a strong affinity for the hybrid, …
Cisco/Google partnership spotlights influential role of developers in app-centric world
When Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian took the stage at Next ’19 in San Francisco on Tuesday, he described how Google was listening to its customers. From the subsequent flow of announcements during the conference this week, developers must have …
Security stakes rise for cloud providers as Google rolls out new protection tools
Whether it’s in response to concerns from large enterprise customers or from their own global threat intelligence, security is very much on the minds of top executives for the leading cloud providers these days. At the Amazon Web Services Summit in March, …
At Next, Google Cloud makes case for capital investment and security
Businesses with big ambitions had better be able to fund them. Google Cloud’s top executive made it a point today to ensure there would not be any doubts about the level of his company’s commitment as a major cloud provider. Google Cloud …