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.

Latest from Mark Albertson

Telcos’ challenge with edge deployment has a familiar ring for IBM’s Jim Whitehurst

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

For telecommunications firms, the 5G wave is coming and it will usher in a new era of innovation. Yet the playbook for transformation from an open-source standpoint remains strikingly familiar to the senior leadership at IBM Corp. IBM’s edge opportunity is to …

Hybrid cloud agenda strengthened by new IBM, Red Hat product releases

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

It has been barely 30 days since IBM Corp.’s new chief executive officer, Arvind Krishna, took the helm of the 109-year-old company. When he assumed control, Krishna made it clear that IBM’s focus would be on the hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence, leveraging open-source …

IBM antes up in new era of hybrid cloud and edge computing

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

In the game of poker, it’s called a “showdown” when two or more players reach the final round of betting and all must show their cards. With IBM Corp.’s announcements this week focused on artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud solutions, 5G and edge …

Latest enhancements for the open hybrid cloud help fill Red Hat’s wish list

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

Coming into its Summit Virtual Experience at the end of April, Red Hat Inc. clearly had a checklist of items it wanted to accomplish. Take virtual machines and bring them into containers? Check. Announce a new version of OpenShift with software to …

Digital events demand close attention to production quality and relationship-building

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

For practitioners whose business it is to facilitate interaction between companies and communities, these are indeed interesting times. Large in-person conferences, industry cocktail receptions with live music, and blogger lounges in hotel ballrooms where much of the tech world’s business gets done …

Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta prefers a human-first approach for company and customers

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

When Gainsight Inc. Chief Executive Nick Mehta decided to announce that his firm’s upcoming online-only conference had set a record for registrations, he didn’t send out a self-congratulatory, dry company memo. He went on a video stream from his home before the entire company and had …

All-remote GitLab offers advice and resources for life away from offices

PEOPLE By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

Almost overnight, the world has gone from office first to remote first. Will it go back? If predictions by some people are right, one of the outcomes from the global pandemic will be that companies currently structured around owning and maintaining an …

Global interest in biosecurity on the rise, but many nations are racing to catch up

SECURITY By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

There is no “aftermath” yet in the COVID-19 pandemic as the virus rages on. Yet there is already a great deal of discussion around one particular topic — biosecurity — that will likely be a significant focus of attention in the months …

Red Hat has big plans for Ansible’s role in certified content and IT automation

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

In the open-source world, a tiny seed can grow into a robust tree very quickly. Ansible, an open-source software provisioning and application deployment tool, began as a project in 2012. That sprouted a separate company a year later, which was ultimately purchased by …

Vodafone Idea and Red Hat pursue dream of a universal cloud across India

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

When Vodafone India and Idea Cellular merged in 2018, the two firms quickly arrived at a mutual goal. The plan was to link more than 100 data centers into a central cloud using open-source infrastructure based on Red Hat Inc.’s OpenStack. It …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

Telcos’ challenge with edge deployment has a familiar ring for IBM’s Jim Whitehurst

Hybrid cloud agenda strengthened by new IBM, Red Hat product releases

Latest enhancements for the open hybrid cloud help fill Red Hat’s wish list

Digital events demand close attention to production quality and relationship-building

Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta prefers a human-first approach for company and customers

All-remote GitLab offers advice and resources for life away from offices

Global interest in biosecurity on the rise, but many nations are racing to catch up

Red Hat has big plans for Ansible’s role in certified content and IT automation

Vodafone Idea and Red Hat pursue dream of a universal cloud across India

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