Mark Albertson, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

Red Hat fine-tunes Kubernetes strategy to drive the hybrid cloud

By Mark Albertson Jan 18, 2019

When IBM Corp. acquired Red Hat Inc. in October for $34 billion — a deal voted for approval this week — it gained more than just a successful open-source company. What IBM bought was…

Blockchain

Fintech gets pressure-tested, but ‘crypto winter’ may not be as cold as it feels

By Mark Albertson Jan 14, 2019

For many participants in the world of financial technology, 2018 was a year to forget. The market for initial coin offerings ground to a halt, buffeted by regulatory issues and a steep collapse in…

Policy

‘Oops, we broke democracy’: Networking pioneer says tech’s fail-fast culture must change

By Mark Albertson Jan 11, 2019

In the 160-character-fueled, fail-fast and break-things culture of the technology world, perspective is often in short supply. Judy Estrin thinks she knows how to fix that problem. The Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur can offer a…

Cloud

5G may be a game changer, but don’t expect a lot in 2019

By Mark Albertson Jan 10, 2019

Contrary to the preshow hype at the CES consumer electronics show this week in Las Vegas, 2019 will not be the year that 5G fully arrives. Not even close. But the fifth-generation wireless standard…

Big Data

CES announcements herald the arrival of the Data Age

By Mark Albertson Jan 8, 2019

The early story line after two mind-numbing days of press conferences at the CES consumer electronics show this week in Las Vegas can be summed up in five words: It’s all about the data.…

Cloud

Cabling is now code: How cloud and open source fuel Cisco’s vision for the programmable network

By Mark Albertson Jan 4, 2019

It would not be a stretch to say that 2018 was the Year of the Cloud for Cisco Systems Inc. The networking company’s agreement in November with Amazon Web Services Inc. to provide an integrated…

Cloud

To understand what’s coming in 2019, remember these five numbers from 2018

By Mark Albertson Dec 29, 2018

As 2018 winds to a close, it’s worth taking a moment to take a brief look back and reflect on another tumultuous year in enterprise tech. Here are five numbers to keep in mind…

Cloud

Kubernetes can handle the gnarly plumbing, but can it handle the gnarly problems too?

By Mark Albertson Dec 28, 2018

If 2018 confirmed the position of Kubernetes at the center of the cloud-native computing universe, then 2019 could well be the platform’s ultimate stress test. The widespread adoption of the container orchestration tool in…

Cloud

As cloud-native matures, CNCF sees mainstream adoption of open source

By Mark Albertson Dec 21, 2018

Every time Lyft riders order a car and step into the vehicle, they’re entering much more than a mass of metal on four wheels. They’re being propelled by a massive microservices-oriented computerized infrastructure fueled…

Cloud

The co-evolution of Kubernetes and Heptio founder Joe Beda

By Mark Albertson Dec 17, 2018

Tracking technology’s evolution sometimes requires looking less at the products created and more at the people behind them. In examining the Kubernetes container management platform and its meteoric rise inside the complex world of cloud computing,…

Mark Albertson

Fintech gets pressure-tested, but ‘crypto winter’ may not be as cold as it feels

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