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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HPE CEO Antonio Neri aims to deploy AI at the network edge

The “e” stands for “enterprise” at HPE, but it’s rapidly coming to mean “edge” as well. After outlining the company’s edge-centric, data-driven hybrid cloud strategy at its June conference in Las Vegas, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Chief Executive Antonio Neri (pictured) added more details to the future focus today, some five months after he took over the top ...
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AWS presence in Middle East fosters innovation as Bahrain embraces government cloud

Over the past two years, Amazon Web Services Inc. has not been shy about opening new infrastructure around the world. The cloud computing giant launched regions in Korea, India and Canada in 2016. The following year saw AWS expansion to Hong Kong, France, Sweden and China. Missing from this picture was a key part of ...

Flash, Cloud Volumes and SAP Hybris are key for NetApp’s next-gen data center

NetApp Inc. has made a series of announcements this year designed to provide additional options for customers looking to modernize data centers for the hybrid cloud. The moves included continued integration with SAP’s HANA solution and leveraged NetApp’s All-Flash FAS enterprise class storage and its Cloud Volumes service for analytics and database migration. “At the ...

Fortinet security strategist sees rise in stealthy attacks as zero-day market matures

Crooks are getting smarter at covering their cyber tracks. The FortiGuard Labs’ Q1 2018 “Threat Landscape Report” sheds new light on the growth of designer malware, tools used by cybercriminals to infect systems in ways that are difficult to detect and harder to remove. “Cybercriminals are evolving their attack methodologies to be able to increase their ...

Is ‘lift and shift’ more trouble than it’s worth?

It seems like a safe and simple proposition. A workload or task can be moved from one compute environment to another, often from an on-premises data center to the cloud. Yet, this process, known as “lift and shift,” can actually create unforeseen issues, according to the top executive of CloudGenera Inc., a cloud decision engine that ...
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VR pioneer Jaron Lanier quit social media and says you should too

Anyone interested in connecting over social media with Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer, computer scientist and consultant for a number of well-known films, is out of luck. He’s not on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or Reddit for one simple reason: He doesn’t want to be manipulated. Lanier (pictured) is so concerned about the subject of commercial ...

HPE focuses on the intelligent edge and making hybrid IT simple for big data workloads

Increasing complexity in the information technology world is leading companies such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. to focus its efforts on moving customers to a simpler place. Automation, artificial intelligence, and multicloud management tools are key elements in HPE’s approach to handling big data demands. “You’ve got to make a lot of decisions to be ...

China, blockchain and chips: Western Digital looks beyond storage

Executives at Western Digital Corp. have a lot on their minds these days. This week, their attention was focused on new additions to the company’s data center portfolio involving object storage, enhanced all-flash arrays and a new hybrid storage server platform. Last week, the company launched new artificial intelligence-equipped drives for surveillance cameras and released ...

MongoDB engages developers looking to jump from legacy systems

MongoDB Inc. has built a successful business on the promise of open-source database software, and the firm’s latest product announcements show that it wants to bring more enterprise users to its database platform. To this end, the company is also wooing enterprise developers with MongoDB Atlas, a fully-automated cloud service for modern applications. Developers appear to ...
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How Apple, Pixar and Polaroid fueled the collective genius of innovation

When Steve Jobs decided to visit Polaroid Corp. co-founder Edwin Land many years ago, the Apple Inc. co-founder probably didn’t realize he was writing a new chapter in corporate innovation. Yet, the lessons Jobs took away from that meeting with the inventor of instant photography, involving leadership, creativity and company culture, have reverberated throughout the ...