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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GitLab capitalizes on fast-moving DevOps world and weighs possible IPO in 2020

By any measure of unicorn status among startup companies, GitLab Inc. is on the fast track. The DevOps platform reached the unicorn mark of $1 billion in value in 2018 and then attracted additional investment, which nearly tripled its worth to $2.75 billion entering 2020. GitLab has moved fast because it staked its business on helping ...

Best of theCUBE 2019: Five big tech topics to follow in 2020

With about 1,200 interviews broadcast in 2019 alone on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, it’s virtually impossible to capture all of the key themes discussed. But that’s not going to stop us from trying. Here are five key topics gleaned from a look back at top interviews that Stu Miniman, host of theCUBE and ...

Cloud, containers and copy data are just part of the story with Actifio’s 10c release

A decade ago, the information-technology world faced a serious case of tech sprawl. As data became more important to the enterprise, IT organizations were seeking to move on from the technical limitations of tape storage by deploying deduplication appliances throughout multiple data centers. There were backups for backups, and production data became an unwieldy monster. ...

CES reveals a surge in AI, 5G and edge computing – especially in the enterprise

Behind the connected underwear, smart trash cans and a mood harness for dogs, a more significant confluence of trends emerged this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: The technology industry is moving en masse to embrace 5G, artificial intelligence and edge computing. Amid the noise surrounding an array of mind-numbing gadgets at ...
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Intel’s focus on AI maturation guides its data center strategy

When it comes to advancing the field of artificial intelligence, the ultimate prize is still clear. The goal is to come as close as possible to the power of the human brain. For researchers at the forefront of AI development, such as Naveen Rao (pictured), vice president and general manager of the artificial intelligence products ...

Zscaler’s SASE platform brings security and policy closer to the user in a cloud-delivered service

When it comes to providing security for digital business, Zscaler Inc. has chosen to change the status quo. Traditional security in the information-technology world over the past 30 years called for connecting users to applications in a centralized data center. The problem is that the basic model has become anything but centralized in the new ...
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The future is autonomous: 5 reasons why automation will be tech’s major story in 2020

This article wasn’t written by a robot, but it could have been. That, along with literally thousands of other uses, is why automation will be big news in 2020. Over the course of 2019, it was nearly impossible to cover any major tech conference without discussing an innovation in robotics, artificial intelligence or a similar ...

Data protection, containers and flash innovation key areas of focus for IBM Storage

If money is only as safe as where it is kept, then data follows the same axiom. As data becomes increasingly more valuable to businesses, where it is stored has risen in importance as well. For storage clients of IBM Corp., that means reliance on the company to protect as well as preserve in a ...

Acquisition of 1Strategy by TEKsystems demonstrates continued IT influence of AWS

As the leading public cloud provider, Amazon Web Services Inc. has not only built its customer base, it has also spawned an ecosystem of consultants and systems integrators to support a growing portfolio of services. During the AWS re:Invent conference this month, TEKsystems Inc., a global systems integrator, announced that it had acquired 1Strategy, a Premier ...

Forcepoint takes a human-centric view of security to protect enterprise users and data

Traditional views of enterprise security are rapidly evolving from a strict perimeter defense to keep bad actors out to a more nuanced approach that takes into account user behavior and the context of network interactions. A login to a company network from a Starbucks location where employees are based may seem fine, but if it triggers ...