Mark Albertson
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IBM Corp. has made big bets on Watson, its artificial intelligence platform, and the revolutionary ledger system blockchain. So, it only makes sense that the company would ultimately combine the two for the next generation of transaction systems. One key area that …
Security, 5G help drive Nuage Networks’ software-defined WAN strategy
The software-defined wide area network represents a technology solution that is quietly working its way into the enterprise picture. Once viewed as a valuable connectivity solution for organizations with multiple branches, SD-WAN is gaining traction within the enterprise for its ability to …
Latest Kubernetes update sets stage for KubeCon in May
With the release of Kubernetes 1.10 in March, developers and users familiar with the project will have plenty to discuss when the community gathers in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 2 through 4 for KubeCon, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference. The first update in …
Oracle serves up its Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud, seasoned with Amazon-bashing
It’s probably a safe bet that when Oracle Corp. Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison wakes up in the morning, he doesn’t converse with Alexa. The company’s founder spent more than an hour Tuesday during a presentation at the company’s headquarters in …
From China to the US, AI still looks a lot like us: imperfect and still learning
Artificial intelligence holds tremendous promise, has been a major disappointment or is a threat that will derail civilization as we know it. All of those views, in fact, were apparent during discussions this week at EmTech Digital 2018, the MIT Technology Review conference …
This data company is accelerating production to conquer the last mile
Picture a room of information technology professionals where they are asked a simple question: How many have been working on a data science model that still has not gone into production after nine months? Then imagine that more than 90 percent raised …
Technologist learned organizational lessons from Yahoo failure
Salim Ismail (pictured) has a vision for the organization of the future, and it doesn’t look anything like what exists today. Centralized authority will become distributed, closed decision-making will move toward openness and transparency, and predictability will transition into flexibility and rapid …
Now at the tipping point, football analytics offer new view of the game
Walk into any National Football League stadium on game day and the scene is similar in many ways. There are cheerleaders, music, a very large scoreboard, vendors hawking food and drink in the aisles, and two helmet-clad teams doing battle on the field. Yet, …
Could programmable money dethrone the U.S. dollar?
The U.S. dollar accounts for two-thirds (63.5 percent) of global reserves held in central banks around the world, according to the latest data from the International Monetary Fund. It is essentially the de facto global currency and has been since the Bretton Woods agreement …
Blockchain goes from proof of concept to production at IBM
When Satoshi Nakamoto released his seminal whitepaper on a peer-to-peer electronic cash system called bitcoin in 2008, he also outlined the underlying technology to operate the fledgling digital currency. That platform — the blockchain — has since evolved into a major global …