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

A ‘smoking good’ deal? Red Hat could prove a $34 billion bargain for IBM

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

When does free technology become worth $10 trillion? When the company is Red Hat Inc. and its open-source software and applications running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux contribute to $10 trillion worth of global business revenues this year. That’s the conclusion from …

OpenShift adoption plus Microsoft and IBM deals validate Red Hat’s role as enterprise player

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

At the conclusion of the Red Hat Summit in Boston today, Red Hat Inc.’s chief executive officer, Jim Whitehurst, could be forgiven if he was feeling a little weary from being hugged. He was embraced by IBM Corp., whose own top executive, Ginni Rometty, took the …

Enterprise Jedi: How Nutanix and Luke Skywalker have a lot in common

INFRA By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

The .NEXT annual conference for Nutanix Inc. is being held in Anaheim, California, this week, mere steps away from Disneyland, so it was only a mild surprise when attendees saw the “Star Wars” films’ Luke Skywalker, played by actor Mark Hamill, on …

Red Hat’s CTO says incremental improvements through open source will drive autonomic computing

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

From his position as the chief technology officer for Red Hat Inc., Chris Wright (pictured) can see a future when self-tuning platforms will scale as the need grows. This is autonomic computing or autonomous clouds, and it’s not as far away as …

Red Hat purchase backs up IBM’s big prediction on the hybrid future

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

Predicting the future is always a tricky proposition, even for a multi-billion-dollar business like IBM Corp. Yet, company executives felt strongly that the enterprise computing world would become increasingly hybrid, a belief that drove the firm to acquire Red Hat Inc. for $34 …

As Nutanix turns 10, it must maneuver around the big tech elephants

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

Nutanix Inc. has built its business around hyperconverged infrastructure appliances and software-defined storage. Yet the company is increasingly facing pressure to expand its enterprise footprint in competition with major players such as Dell Technologies Inc. and its majority-owned VMware Inc. Founded in …

Google looks to drive progress in automotive technologies

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

In a keynote address at Google I/O 2019 on Tuesday, Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Sundar Pichai declared that his company’s goal was “to build a more helpful Google for everyone.” One area of daily life where Google LLC clearly has big plans to …

New logo, same hat, same soul: IBM’s Rometty promises Red Hat will stay intact

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

Red Hat Inc. unveiled the latest iteration of its trademark red fedora logo this month. Yet when IBM Corp.’s chief executive officer, Ginni Rometty (pictured, with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst), took the keynote stage at the Red Hat Summit on Tuesday afternoon, she went …

HPE’s BlueData offers EPIC solution to free scientists from infrastructure burden

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

When it comes to getting work done in the enterprise, it all depends on who does the heavy lifting. Writing an email is a simple process today, but what if everyone who needed to write one had to first build the computer …

Latest RHEL release and federal approval propel Red Hat along its enterprise path

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

Red Hat Inc. made news on two major fronts in less than 48 hours this week. On the product side, the open-source company released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 today. It was notable for a redesign to accommodate the hybrid cloud era. “People …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

OpenShift adoption plus Microsoft and IBM deals validate Red Hat’s role as enterprise player

Enterprise Jedi: How Nutanix and Luke Skywalker have a lot in common

Red Hat’s CTO says incremental improvements through open source will drive autonomic computing

Red Hat purchase backs up IBM’s big prediction on the hybrid future

As Nutanix turns 10, it must maneuver around the big tech elephants

Google looks to drive progress in automotive technologies

New logo, same hat, same soul: IBM’s Rometty promises Red Hat will stay intact

HPE’s BlueData offers EPIC solution to free scientists from infrastructure burden

Latest RHEL release and federal approval propel Red Hat along its enterprise path

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