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

IBM Analytics helps Niagara Bottling shrink wrap using data science

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

After becoming the chief data officer for IBM Analytics in 2016, Seth Dobrin (pictured, left) hit the road and talked with as many customers as he could schedule. What he learned was that IBM Corp.’s clients needed help in the data science …

From malls to factories to cars, Bluetooth expands far beyond its roots

INFRA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Although it seems like Bluetooth’s wireless technology has been around forever, if it grew legs and walked into a bar, it still wouldn’t be old enough to buy a drink. But as it celebrates its 20th year, Bluetooth’s global impact makes it seem …

Syncsort’s recent moves address fraud detection, data security, and capacity management

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Through a series of acquisitions and enhancements to its family of products in less than two years, Syncsort Inc. is cementing its role in big iron to big data software. Last week, the company added new capabilities to Syncsort Integrate that enable real-time …

Teamwork and a user-focused ethos propel PagerDuty to unicorn status in a DevOps world

INFRA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Today’s development operations staff eats, sleeps and breathes data, and they rely on a set of tools to provide the critical information they need, especially when the system slows to a crawl or applications fail to work. These are tools seldom visible …

As Hadoop landscape evolves, Hortonworks CEO plots future in hybrid cloud and IoT

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

For a company built on the premise of big-data management, the challenge for Hortonworks Inc. is to keep its eye on where enterprise information is going. As big-data applications move between on-premises and cloud platforms and customers increasingly demand workload flexibility, the …

Lenovo’s deal with NetApp follows a familiar pattern

INFRA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

When Lenovo Group Ltd. acquired the personal computer business from IBM Corp. in 2004, some skeptics questioned the venture’s future success. Yet the company managed to expand the business to a position as the world’s largest supplier of PCs by 2013. Lenovo is at …

Partnerships, new releases show Red Hat’s focus on shared data context in an agile infrastructure

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Less than a year ago, Red Hat Inc. announced Ceph, a major upgrade to its scalable, software-defined object storage platform, following up with news in May that the open-source software provider would combine the latest release with OpenStack Platform 13. The news was significant because it represented Red …

Largest Hadoop players adapt business models to hybrid cloud

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

When Hadoop made its entry into the big data picture 13 years ago, it offered a necessary platform for big data management while the cloud was still a mere speck on the enterprise horizon. Now, the largest three Hadoop players — Cloudera …

Fortinet offers new control and access response tool as use of IoT devices expands

INFRA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Responding to continued vulnerability of systems to security threats as more internet of things devices attach to networks, information technology security company Fortinet Inc. has introduced a new network access control solution to enable visibility at scale across multi-vendor environments. FortiNAC is …

CloudEndure delivers live migration and disaster recovery through a single toolset

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

When VMware Inc. made headline news last week with the announcement that it would launch its cloud service on Amazon Web Services Inc., a number of companies began scrambling to see how they might fit into the new picture. That wasn’t necessary …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

IBM Analytics helps Niagara Bottling shrink wrap using data science

From malls to factories to cars, Bluetooth expands far beyond its roots

Syncsort’s recent moves address fraud detection, data security, and capacity management

Teamwork and a user-focused ethos propel PagerDuty to unicorn status in a DevOps world

As Hadoop landscape evolves, Hortonworks CEO plots future in hybrid cloud and IoT

Lenovo’s deal with NetApp follows a familiar pattern

Partnerships, new releases show Red Hat’s focus on shared data context in an agile infrastructure

Largest Hadoop players adapt business models to hybrid cloud

Fortinet offers new control and access response tool as use of IoT devices expands

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