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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Veeam’s partnership with Cisco is paying dividends on both sides

Nearly two years ago, Veeam Software Inc.’s Availability solutions were added to Cisco Systems Inc.’s Global Price List. It looks like it’s turned out to be a pretty good deal for both companies. Veeam is generating nearly two transactions every three days from the Cisco reseller arrangement, according to Danny Allan (pictured), vice president of ...

Cisco DevNet unveils learning opportunities for network-automation developers

As networks have changed, so too has the expertise needed to manage them. Leveraging the power of its 600,000-member strong DevNet developer community, Cisco Systems Inc. has introduced two new offerings designed to bring software skills to networking. The company hopes to better prepare its customers as the advance of technologies, such as 5G and ...
ANALYSIS

Government and industry leaders tiptoe around ‘tech for good’ versus ‘tech for ill’

Headlines for the tech industry over the past year have not all been good. Between growing concern about privacy and users’ control over their data, to allegations of antitrust violations by some of the world’s largest tech companies, the industry has increasingly found itself confronted with negative press. This is the shadow that looms over ...

Multidomain architecture is part of Cisco’s formula for the programmable network

Chief information officers and air traffic controllers have a lot in common. At any given time, controllers at the world’s busiest airports must account for planes in the sky trying to land, planes seeking to take off, the positioning of aircraft on the runways, and external factors, such as wind or bad weather. Today’s CIO ...

VMware and AWS continue legacy of work with public sector organizations

When Great Britain’s National Health Service announced last month that VMware Inc. would provide it with access to cloud resources on Amazon Web Services, it was another chapter in VMware’s lengthy history of work with organizations in the public sector. “Some of our earliest customers were in the public sector,” said Sanjay Poonen (pictured), chief ...
ANALYSIS

At AWS Public Sector Summit, new workforce and cloud poised to transform government

Is the federal government finally ripe for technological disruption? As public agencies prepare to implement new cloud-driven technologies, coupled with a younger, more tech-savvy workforce, it could be setting the stage for significant change in the federal government’s information-technology profile. “That’s the biggest story in tech in D.C. in a long time — the role ...
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE

Cisco Live keynote analysis: Surviving the transition to cloud, software-defined networks

Company executives at the Cisco Live event in San Diego kicked off the conference today by pointing out that this year marked the 30th anniversary of the event. It was actually called “Networkers” back in 1989, and Cisco Systems Inc. has shown it aims to survive the significant transition that has taken place in the technology world from ...
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE

From inventing the web to colliding particles, CERN’s computer scientists manage data for the universe

This article, and hundreds of millions of others, are viewable online across the globe because 30 years ago a computer scientist took a break from his research group’s work in particle physics to tinker with a new way to manage and share information. That group was the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN; the computer scientist was Tim ...

Hardware-to-software transformation, multicloud and 5G set the stage for Cisco Live 2019

During a recent interview in advance of Cisco Systems Inc.’s major conference this month in San Diego, Chief Executive Officer Chuck Robbins plainly had a couple of things he wanted to get off his chest. One, people should not underestimate the complicated challenge Cisco has faced as a hardware company moving to the cloud, something ...

Speed to truth: Scalyr enables search in complex data logs at warp speed

Whether it involves online search or troubleshooting a thorny systems error, the name of the game is speed. Yet, in a world where a navigation bar can deliver an answer for “today’s weather” or “the derivative of square root by sine X of first principles” in less than the blink of an eye, finding the ...