Mark Albertson
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InfluxData bets the company on a market for its time series data platform
The time series data market used to be a province for weather statistics and stock price averages. But as the wave of data generated from “internet of things” devices continues to escalate, one company is betting that the market for time series technology will become much more significant in a wide range of uses beyond ...
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From Yahoo to Google and beyond, John Hennessy witnesses Silicon Valley’s historic ride
Before it reached a $125 billion valuation, before it grew to 345 million users, before its stock hit $500 per share, Yahoo Inc. was nothing more than a cramped, donated space strewn with empty pizza boxes and soda cans, occupied by students David Filo and Jerry Yang on the campus of Stanford University. “It was a ...
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Open-source software will eat everything in its path, and this VC wants a bite
Technology entrepreneur Marc Andreessen once famously declared that software will eat the world. Joseph Jacks (pictured), founder and general partner of OSS Capital, has a different twist on Andreessen’s opinion: He believes open-source software will simply eat everything. Developments in open source over the course of 2018 alone could lead some to agree with Jacks’ point. In ...
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Could AI go rogue? Debating the obstacles for enterprise machine intelligence
Fei-Fei Li is a world-renowned expert in the field of artificial intelligence, having risen to become head of Stanford University’s AI Lab and the chief scientist for AI at Google Cloud. But when Google LLC began an internal debate last year over how to publicly discuss its AI contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, ...
Blockchain entrepreneurs dream of scale, security tokens, Wyoming – and crypto beer
In the ongoing soap opera that is the cryptocurrency revolution, entrepreneurs have been trying to jump multiple hurdles, like Olympic sprinters heading down a long track. Getting the blockchain to scale up and figuring out how to turn real assets into tokens without winding up in jail are just a couple of the many obstacles ...
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Fintech moves from banking disruptor to collaborator
If you can’t beat them, work with them. That’s one clear message coming from the Money 20/20 USA conference in Las Vegas this week as representatives from large financial institutions rubbed shoulders with fintech startup founders in an effort to sort through the future of money. One prime example: Monday’s news that major financial player ...
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Big companies are circling cryptocurrencies, but concerns push Hosho to strengthen security
Most people today don’t think twice about putting their hard-earned dollars into a bank. Yet, there is a growing sense of unease for users in the global cryptocurrency community that the platforms for storing tokens and various digital assets are about as safe as the mattress in an upstairs bedroom. The concern stems from a ...
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Wikibon forecast: Multicloud, software robots and Kubernetes will take off in 2019
As another tumultuous year in technology begins to wind down, it would be difficult to make any predictions for the coming year without focusing on the single major topic in the enterprise world: cloud computing. Will enterprise models be public, private or multicloud? What role will containers play? And how will key drivers such as ...
Data protection provides the foundation for HKS’ systems approach
From the mammoth AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, to Terminal D of the DFW International Airport, HKS Inc. architects has been designing landmark structures for 80 years. A key element of any building is its foundation, and for the architectural firm’s information technology group, data protection is a critical part of its contribution to the ...
Whether farming or coding, simplicity trumps all, says COO
Standing on the Commvault Go stage this week in Nashville, Tennessee, Al Bunte (pictured), chief operating officer of Commvault Systems Inc. described how traditional scripts were no longer helpful in finding data needed to run the enterprise. “It leads to what I call the WTF moment,” said Bunte during his keynote remarks. As the audience began to murmur, ...









