Mark Albertson

Mark Albertson is a senior writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. He is an experienced technology reporter, recognized by Onalytica as a "Who's Who In Cloud Influencer" and named to Peerlyst’s “24 Powerful Cybersecurity Journalists.” Prior to SiliconANGLE, Mark wrote for the San Francisco Examiner, Blasting News, and CBS-Bay Area.

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Versatile works with healthcare and HPE to move tech from burden to savior

It’s taken quite a while, but the healthcare industry is finally moving toward hybrid cloud adoption. The results of a survey involving 2,300 information-technology decision makers published earlier this year found that hybrid cloud deployment in the healthcare industry was expected to grow from a paltry 19% penetration to 37% within two years. This is ...

Workload-aware and automated: HPE’s latest play for hybrid storage

As the enterprise embraces hybrid cloud, it must also come to understand the impact of hybrid storage. In today’s world of enterprise computing, data is stored in many different environments — on-premises, in public clouds and private clouds. This means information technology vendors must ensure underlying storage architectures have an increasingly robust set of services close to ...
BREAKING ANALYSIS

Tech spending intentions survey delivers good news for Pure Storage

Data from Enterprise Technology Research’s most recent spending intentions survey shows that Pure Storage Inc. is on a roll in terms of strengthening its competitive position in the storage marketplace. The most recent survey results, which ETR provided to Dave Vellante, co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, showed that Pure is leading the ...

Kaminario seeks to bridge on-premises and public cloud worlds

With a recent McKinsey & Co. study showing that 80% of workloads are still on-premises, enterprises are keeping one foot in the cloud and the other planted in the data center for now. Kaminario Inc. has restructured its business model and made recent announcements to position itself as a storage as a service solutions provider ...

The new networks of the cloud era: smart, programmable and app-centric

Nick McKeown, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University, has co-founded and successfully sold four startup companies. They include Nicira Inc., technology acquired by VMware Inc. in 2012 and now responsible for a $2 billion annual run rate as the foundation for NSX. When McKeown steps to a lectern and discusses the ...
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE

Years in the making: Carbon Black is the capstone for VMware’s security business strategy

(This article has been updated with an extended review of Carbon Black to reflect Tom Barsi’s selection as theCUBE’s Guest of the Week.) Don’t look now, but VMware Inc. has built a significant cybersecurity practice. The August acquisition of Carbon Black Inc. for $2.1 billion represented a major step forward for the network virtualization vendor’s ...

Raytheon, Dell EMC leverage Pivotal and VxRail to help modernize the Air Force

A student could complete a full course of study for a college degree or an entire presidential administration could come and go before the cycle to award and execute one government contract is completed. That’s why a recent collaboration between Raytheon Co. and Dell EMC to deploy new software applications for the U.S. Air Force ...
ANALYSIS

News at VMworld quietly underscores VMware’s growing enterprise influence

As VMworld wrapped up its fourth and final day, the event left attendees plenty of time to digest the flurry of major acquisition news that preceded the conference and a series of announcements that were rolled out on Monday. The question up for debate: Did the enterprise computing industry gain a better appreciation for VMware Inc.’s ...

Telco industry gets crash course in enterprise computing as 5G deployment gathers steam

Technology has brought significant change, placing demands on people in a given industry who must adapt to a world where new skills and capabilities are constantly required. This has manifested itself in the telecommunications industry where the conversation has changed significantly. “When we work within this industry, it’s not just a technology conversation,” said Kevin ...
ANALYSIS

Like it or leave: Analysts note what got emphasized at VMworld and what didn’t

Sometimes the strategic positioning of a company can become more obvious by observing who’s not on stage during its major annual conference than who is. After a series of keynote presentations during VMworld 2019 on Monday and Tuesday, it was clear to those in attendance that the focus was on Dell EMC/VMware products more than ...