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

When the guns turned: Microsoft President Brad Smith confronts tech’s thorny issues

POLICY By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

Seventy-four years after the fictionalized film featuring the actor Jimmy Stewart, Mr. Smith really did go to Washington. In 2013, Microsoft Corp. president Brad Smith (pictured) found himself sitting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House conversing with President Barack Obama, Vice President …

Smart home data is flowing for the Samsung SmartThings platform

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

One hundred Webster dictionaries would fill a gigabyte of data and 100,000 would fill a terabyte. Samsung SmartThings, the electronics giant’s smart home platform, generates 150 terabytes of “interesting” data every day, according to SmartThings’ chief technology officer. And that’s a significant increase …

Exponential data growth fuels objective-driven observability for Sumo Logic

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

Moore’s Law, the decades-old observation that the number of transistors in a microchip will double every two years, may be finally slowing down according to a number of industry leaders. Yet, the principle of exponential growth is still alive and well when …

Veritas offers data protection, availability and insight in a perilous world

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

Data protection can be a great idea in concept, until it doesn’t work. When crippling ransomware attacks impacted 23 cities in Texas near the end of this summer, public libraries checked out books by writing the names of borrowers on sheets of …

Avalanche of operations data is forcing DevOps to look closer at monitoring tools

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

Four billion of anything is a lot to imagine. When it involves 4 billion Kubernetes instances, each containing multiple data points on spin-up, operation, and spin-down, the scale becomes truly hard to imagine. That’s how many Kubernetes instances Google LLC launches every …

Latest moves by Sumo Logic focus on the cloud-based ‘Intelligence Economy’

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

On Wednesday, Sumo Logic Inc. made a series of announcements designed to showcase what it calls the “Intelligence Economy.” The news included a continuous intelligence solution for Kubernetes, new benchmarking capabilities for AWS GuardDuty, expanded multicloud support for Google Cloud, and the …

Last hardware purchase? HPE and GreenPages partner to guide customers on hybrid-cloud journey

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

The road to the hybrid cloud is anything but straight for many enterprise firms. Twists, turns and forks in the road can range from security and disaster recovery to automated services and workload management. The hybrid cloud evolution has also translated into …

Snowflake’s cloud data warehouse gains traction at major players’ expense

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

Competition in the cloud data warehouse space is heating up, and one of the most significant companies to emerge in the space is Snowflake Inc. That’s one of several conclusions from spending data recently provided to SiliconANGLE by Enterprise Technology Research Inc. …

Nutanix envisions a frictionless, software subscription-based model for the hybrid cloud

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

As enterprises adopt hybrid computing cloud models, which include public and private clouds, flexible software licensing becomes even more important. This means some companies that were previously solely in the hardware space must either pivot quickly or miss out on a major market …

Move fast and pray: The merits and perils of speed in enterprise tech

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

Sometimes speed wins. Other times, it kills. Speed to market, first-mover advantage, rapid deployment and quantum moves forward are generally considered to be positive attributes in the tech world. Yet is it also possible that enterprise tech, which has suddenly become a …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

When the guns turned: Microsoft President Brad Smith confronts tech’s thorny issues

Last hardware purchase? HPE and GreenPages partner to guide customers on hybrid-cloud journey

Nutanix envisions a frictionless, software subscription-based model for the hybrid cloud

Move fast and pray: The merits and perils of speed in enterprise tech

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