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

Edge exposure during pandemic requires renewed focus on cybersecurity

SECURITY By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

Security at the edge has been discussed for quite a while, but the timetable for solutions extended to years. That’s no longer true. With the outbreak of coronavirus and a migration of much of the global workforce away from internal corporate networks …

Complicated and competitive: How Vertica navigates today’s intricate world of database management

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

There’s plenty of tension in the database management world, and it’s not for the faint of heart. Vertica Systems Inc. has been playing in a high stakes poker game that, over its 15-year history, involved the world’s three largest public cloud providers, …

While others battle global headwinds, ThoughtSpot finds tailwind in big-data analytics

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

Data is plentiful and insights are not. That’s the basic premise behind ThoughtSpot Inc., provider of big-data analytics that brings a different dynamic to business intelligence. Now in its eighth year and well capitalized, the company’s application of artificial intelligence and machine …

How top tech leaders are navigating the new COVID-19 world

CUBE EVENT COVERAGE By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

For the first time that anyone can remember, the entire corporate world is staying home. With mandatory “shelter in place” orders because of the coronavirus pandemic covering not only the United States, but a sizable portion of the world, corporate executives are no …

Collaboration between IT and HR helps enable productivity for Citrix employees

INFRA By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

Citrix Systems Inc. is known for its virtual private networking, or VPN software, a technology very much in demand these days as much of the world’s employee base works from home. The company has been forced to adapt to the new realities …

Pure Storage was ready when the virus spread, but IT still had to execute

INFRA By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

When it came to plans for the disruption brought by the coronavirus pandemic, Pure Storage Inc. was very fortunate indeed. Unlike other enterprises that were caught having to close offices on short notice in March, Pure had an early alert in January, …

Building for resiliency: Gremlin’s chaos engineering exposes vulnerabilities early

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

The job of a site reliability engineer, also known as an SRE, is typically characterized as bringing engineering principles to infrastructure and operations problems, with a focus on creating reliable and scalable systems. What most SRE job descriptions fail to add is …

OutSystems capitalizes on growing enterprise interest in low-code app development

APPS By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

With every complicated business application that goes into production today, another case can be made for the low-code/no-code movement. The reason is that low-code and no-code platforms offer small components as an easier way to build larger application architectures. That’s becoming an …

John Chambers draws on decades navigating global crises as he mentors startups

AI By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

There is a story about the time John Chambers (pictured), former chief executive officer of Cisco Systems Inc., had a conversation with Jack Welch, the legendary top executive for General Electric. At the time the two spoke in 2000, Cisco and Chambers …

Still making big bets: Paul Cormier takes over Red Hat amid pandemic uncertainty

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

In 2001, an executive at Red Hat Inc. who was then in charge of products and technologies for the open-source company urged his chief executive officer to make a big bet on big business with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or RHEL. Nineteen years and …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

Edge exposure during pandemic requires renewed focus on cybersecurity

Pure Storage was ready when the virus spread, but IT still had to execute

Building for resiliency: Gremlin’s chaos engineering exposes vulnerabilities early

John Chambers draws on decades navigating global crises as he mentors startups

Still making big bets: Paul Cormier takes over Red Hat amid pandemic uncertainty

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