Mark Albertson
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When the dust settled following a flurry of announcements from the HPE Discover EU conference in Spain last November, customers and analysts were left with a clearer understanding over how Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. was going to answer questions about its future …
Google found success with Kubernetes, but that’s only part of the story
It’s often a common theme in the tech world that the rich get richer. Amazon.com Inc., an already successful online merchandiser, starts a cloud business (Amazon Web Service Inc.) that becomes an enterprise colossus. Apple Inc., a household name in personal computers, …
Pharma startup combines AI with cell images to target disease
For centuries, modern medicine has grappled with the problem of finding the right drug treatment for the correct disease. While incremental progress is made every year, the lag time and expense of bringing a drug successfully to market has frustrated doctors, scientists …
Carnival Cruise Line relies on analytics, AI monitoring to keep booking levels high
Two seconds. Sometimes, that’s all it takes to make a difference in the competitive cruise line business where booking volume fuels profits and growth. Which is why Carnival Cruise Line, a division of Carnival Corp., spends a considerable amount of time monitoring …
AWS partners focus on continuous, real-time analytics for cloud security
Last year, Accenture Plc mistakenly allowed four Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 databases containing customer information and confidential application program interface data to be exposed to public download. Fortunately, the exposure was caught in September and the assets were secured, but the incident …
Sandboxing and a security stack of enforcement: a multi-layered security approach
When Fortinet Inc. recently announced a broad set of solutions for Amazon Web Services Inc. customers, the latest integrations gave the network security company the largest breadth of security applications within the AWS Marketplace. The news was part of Fortinet’s cloud-based approach …
WekaIO targets lowest latency, highest performance for massive amounts of data
The avalanche of data currently flowing through the enterprise world has created its own vocabulary. Categories of size are now necessary to explain how information technology systems handle massive amounts of information. In an effort to challenge conventional thinking around how file …
Greylock partner tracks cloud and cryptocurrency trends
A glance at the portfolio of companies for the Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Greylock Partners pretty much says it all. With a focus on startups and growth stage businesses, Greylock has successfully parlayed investments in areas of technology that have …
Service mesh is a vital element for container tech, Kubernetes
It’s one thing to build complex software applications for containers’ bundled technology programs. It’s another to get them to talk to each other. The complexities surrounding the Kubernetes container orchestration management system can be a challenge for even the most experienced developer. This is …
Red Hat takes different path in app design as enterprise scales out
The year-long embrace of the Kubernetes container orchestration management system across the enterprise culminated in Amazon Web Services Inc.’s announcement last month of its Elastic Container Service for the open-source storage platform. The announcement was not a major surprise, given the news in …