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All aboard: Top US regulators sound more bullish than ever about moving ahead with crypto initiatives

Mark Albertson — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:58:35 +0000

The heads of several powerful financial regulators in the U.S. signaled this week that they were getting on board the fast-moving digital currency train. Paul Atkins, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said his agency is working on a framework for allowing the offer of crypto assets tied to investment contracts. Speaking at the […]

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Increased testing of models and agentic AI leads Dynatrace to reshape observability in the enterprise

Mark Albertson — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:30:21 +0000

Dynatrace Inc. built its place in the technology world by providing observability and security for traditional workloads. That mission has now come to include support for artificial intelligence workloads with AI-powered observability, which has given the company a prime position from which to observe the latest trends. “We see a change in how people are building […]

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OpenShift adoption drives faster delivery, stronger compliance at Banco do Brasil

Mark Albertson — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:10:45 +0000

As Latin America’s largest bank, Banco do Brasil was looking to reduce overhead while expanding its hybrid cloud strategy. It turned to Red Hat Inc.’s OpenShift to triple the number of managed applications. The platform also helped the bank meet regulatory compliance without increasing staff, according to Gustavo Fiuza (pictured, center), DevOps engineer at Banco […]

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GKE hackathon’s first-time winner cooks up a novel application using agentic AI

Mark Albertson — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:50:20 +0000

It was Amie Wei’s first hackathon, and she thought her idea to build a “cart to kitchen” AI shopping assistant would at least help her decide what to make for her parents when they came to visit, regardless of whether she won or not. The intelligent helper that Wei (pictured, center) built was part of […]

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Google GKE’s 10-year milestone highlights strength of the cloud-native community and Kubernetes’ influence

Mark Albertson — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:42:06 +0000

The launch of Google Kubernetes Engine or GKE 10 years ago played a major role in defining how enterprises think about cloud reliability and scale. It also was a key milestone in uniting other major cloud providers around a common abstraction, according to Kelsey Hightower (pictured, center), distinguished engineer at Google Cloud. “It was the […]

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Reshaping the stack: Inside the open-source forces driving AI’s next chapter

Mark Albertson — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 02:11:30 +0000

AI and Kubernetes are coming together to reshape the entire stack. What will this mean for the future roles of cloud-native and open-source? This is the central question that will be on the minds of key leaders from the open-source community when they gather in Atlanta for the annual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA event, kicking […]

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How Celonis helps CIE turn ERP complexity into operational clarity

Mark Albertson — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:59:11 +0000

For CIE Automotive SA, supplying automotive components and assemblies from its global network of manufacturing plants required a complex set of enterprise resource planning, or ERP systems. As the company grew, it needed to integrate and manage its core business processes to avoid organizational chaos. CIE wanted a centralized point not only to manage business […]

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Rise of the ‘answer engine’: AI’s impact triggers fresh questions for internet ad models, power usage and data sharing

Mark Albertson — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:24:38 +0000

A lengthy stack of issues and macro trends is shaping the technology industry today, and high on the list is the prospect that the internet engine powering an estimated $16 trillion to $21 trillion global digital economy is about to undergo an enormous transformation. “The business model of the internet is about to change radically, […]

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Closing the AI readiness gap: Ataccama’s agentic approach to data trust

Mark Albertson — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:22:12 +0000

There is a widening readiness gap when it comes to enterprise adoption of AI for critical systems and data quality. This was one of the findings contained in the just-released “2025 Data Trust Report: Financial Services Edition,” issued by the data governance company Ataccama Corp. The report noted that only 3% of banks surveyed had […]

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Inside the Town of Vail’s AI-powered smart city journey

Mark Albertson — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:54:48 +0000

Cities and towns around the world collect vast amounts of information to provide essential public services, so it’s only natural to explore how AI can break down silos and bring actionable insights to improve the lives of residents. This is the scenario currently underway in Vail, Colorado, through a collaboration between Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., […]

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Inside the cloud-native AI revolution: Red Hat, Google and the next wave of Kubernetes innovation

Mark Albertson — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:53:42 +0000

A case could easily be made that Kubernetes, the open-source container orchestration tool first introduced by Google LLC in 2014, was made for artificial intelligence. Support for large, complex environments? Check. Scalability? Kubernetes can automatically scale. Portability? The open-source tool can run in hybrid configurations of public and private instances. Support for traditional applications? Kubernetes helps […]

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The space industry takes off: With lower launch costs and new tech, entrepreneurs envision a starship future

Mark Albertson — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:13:55 +0000

From the 17th to the 19th century, tall ships dominated the seas, fostering global trade and exploration. Some corporate leaders today believe that a similar era is underway, only this time the tall ships have been replaced by rocket ships. Expansion of low-Earth orbit through new generations of satellites, increased demand for space-based communication networks, […]

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Super assistant or apex predator? AI brings renewed scrutiny on jobs, data centers and future research

Mark Albertson — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:09:09 +0000

The opening of the TED AI conference in San Francisco this week featured a video composed by a single actor, wearing different costumes and adopting varying points of view about AI. Depending on the persona adopted by the actor, AI was either transformative, evil, helpful, addictive, climate-damaging, the future — or the end of the […]

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What to expect during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA: Join theCUBE Nov. 11-13

Mark Albertson — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:20:52 +0000

The cloud-native ecosystem is shifting fast — and developers are at the center of that transformation. From Kubernetes to observability stacks, open-source projects are evolving from niche innovations to enterprise-scale infrastructure standards driving AI, security and automation. A mid-year snapshot from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation highlights just how quickly that evolution is happening. OpenTelemetry […]

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AI-powered customer support: Smartsheet’s six-minute solution

Mark Albertson — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:43:26 +0000

Expectations for a quick resolution to customer support issues can vary in timeframe, but taking hours is not generally a good standard for cultivating client goodwill. At Smartsheet Inc., the journey from hours to minutes was a challenge until it settled on an artificial intelligence agent-driven solution. Smartsheet uses Agentforce from Salesforce Inc. to help […]

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What’s next for AI: Researchers at Nvidia, Apple, Google and Stanford envision the next leap forward

Mark Albertson — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 22:02:28 +0000

Before OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT in 2022 and its explosion into the public’s consciousness, artificial intelligence was quietly being developed in research labs and discussed in scientific conferences. As much of the enterprise world’s attention has been currently focused on AI agents and massive expectations for reshaping enterprise production, a group of engineers and scientists has […]

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Agentforce helps PepsiCo unify its data and strengthen customer engagement

Mark Albertson — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:17:30 +0000

As one of the biggest names in the food and beverage industry, PepsiCo Inc.’s snacks and drinks are enjoyed over one billion times each day across 200 countries. The complexity of running a business of that size requires a finely tuned balance between delivery logistics, store sales, customer engagement and new product launches. How does […]

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Salesforce makes its case at Dreamforce for how Agentforce 360 can bridge the ‘Agentic Divide’

Mark Albertson — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:08:41 +0000

Can artificial intelligence move from pilots to production at scale in the enterprise? This was the central question surrounding Salesforce Inc.’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco as the customer relationship management powerhouse sought to make it clear this week that its major bet on agentic AI would do exactly that. At a time when research […]

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Making AI Real: Dell’s data solutions reshape the role of storage in enterprise analytics

Mark Albertson — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:09:13 +0000

AI is becoming the rising tide that lifts a lot of boats, and the data storage industry is being carried along with the surge. Storage is moving from its past role as a background service, to the forefront of an enterprise data-platform strategy, and this is shaping the market response from major storage providers such as […]

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Stablecoins on the march: Government green light and AI drive growing enterprise interest in digital currency

Mark Albertson — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 03:51:32 +0000

A major shift in U.S. government sentiment toward cryptocurrencies combined with innovation from AI are making the stablecoin market an emerging force in the digital asset economy. Indeed, there is mounting evidence that crypto is having its “ChatGPT moment” and stablecoins are leading some of the largest companies in the world into programmable finance. Apple […]

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What to expect during the ‘Dell AI Data Platform’ event: Join theCUBE Oct. 21

Mark Albertson — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:40:47 +0000

As artificial intelligence and agentic systems transform the way that businesses operate, data platforms have taken on a more significant role beyond mere operational infrastructure. They have emerged as the organizing focus of the modern enterprise, delivering a cohesive, scalable AI data platform system that enables the storing, processing and management of data across key […]

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Everyone can go build: Retool adds latest chapter in movement to democratize software generation

Mark Albertson — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:51:27 +0000

In many organizations today operations managers, product leads, sales practitioners and finance professionals can add a new title to their resumes: software engineer. That’s one of the outcomes from the rise of low-code/no-code platforms through which developing and safely deploying software for internal use is becoming more widely adopted. One of the companies at the […]

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What to expect during Dreamforce: Join theCUBE Oct. 14-16

Mark Albertson — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:53:41 +0000

Around this time last year, Salesforce Inc. CEO Marc Benioff decided to rewrite his entire audience-tested keynote address for the company’s annual Dreamforce conference to focus on AI agents and his firm’s initiative to deploy the autonomous technology across its base of over 150,000 customers. As over 40,000 people prepare to gather in San Francisco this […]

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What to expect during ‘5 Steps to a Smarter Private Cloud’: Join theCUBE Sept. 24

Mark Albertson — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:03:12 +0000

The challenge of meeting artificial intelligence mandates, coupled with a push to build workloads that can manage traditional applications alongside containers and edge computing, is putting significant pressure on IT organizations these days. This challenge has led to the emergence of private cloud as a key solution for supporting a rapidly changing IT landscape. The […]

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‘Kicking our butts’: Rapid pace of AI development sparks an urgent push to build better infrastructure

Mark Albertson — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:28:24 +0000

Artificial intelligence innovation is moving at warp speed, but major tech industry players are sounding alarm bells that infrastructure is failing to keep pace with advancements in the field. “AI is kicking our butts and teaching us that we know nothing about infrastructure,” Yee Jiun Song (pictured below), vice president of engineering at Meta Platforms Inc., […]

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Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s Supermicro Open Storage Summit

Mark Albertson — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:04:05 +0000

The enterprise data storage world is undergoing a transformation as IT vendors rethink how their offerings handle both the volume and complexity of artificial intelligence workloads. It’s a transition that requires new approaches to enable faster data retrieval and support the need for AI systems to process and retain large amounts of relevant information instantaneously. […]

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What to expect during CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con: Join theCUBE Sept. 16-17

Mark Albertson — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:13:25 +0000

Enterprise security is facing a turning point as attackers abandon traditional malware in favor of stealthy, AI-powered intrusions. For today’s security leaders, the challenge is no longer just detecting files — it’s defending against invisible, fileless threats that exploit identities, cloud environments and the very infrastructure enterprises depend on. CrowdStrike Inc. released two threat reports […]

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Charting the future of hyperscale AI storage: Supermicro and partners set the pace

Mark Albertson — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:00:33 +0000

Hyperscale data center operators are poised to invest billions to build out AI infrastructure, and this has placed a spotlight on the role of software-defined storage in new platform deployment. For Supermicro Computer Inc., this represents an opportunity to not only showcase its portfolio of servers, storage systems and switches, but also to work with […]

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Broadcom transforms VMware Cloud Foundation into a springboard for private AI

Mark Albertson — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 22:07:49 +0000

A series of announcements from Broadcom Inc. this week underscored its plan to transform VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 into an AI-native platform. At the heart of that vision is artificial intelligence, with private AI serving as a key element that makes VCF a secure, scalable private cloud foundation. On Tuesday, Broadcom announced the addition of […]

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Dell harnesses AI to deliver outcomes in a fast-growing market

Mark Albertson — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:31:14 +0000

The challenge confronting Dell Technologies Inc. is how to capitalize on the explosive AI opportunity while transitioning its millions of servers, storage arrays and PCs to a new era of innovation. This challenge will require a focus on go-to-market, supply chain, services and product, according to Alex Barretto (pictured, right), senior vice president at Dell. […]

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