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

From dead broke to TV star: Mario Armstrong sings the praises of interactive tech

GUESTS OF THE WEEK By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

When Mario Armstrong (pictured) talks about the struggle to achieve his dreams, he draws from a wellspring of experience. Ten years ago, the Emmy Award-winning talk show host and his wife, Nicole, had negative bank balances, maxed-out credit cards and groceries bought …

VMware’s sustainability initiative focuses on the future of global energy

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

When the United States withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement approximately one year ago, VMware Inc. Chief Executive Office Pat Gelsinger issued a message to his employees that reiterated his company’s commitment to sustainability. That commitment includes achieving carbon neutral emissions for its operations …

Can your data be trusted? Alation rolls out TrustCheck for visual verification

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

As businesses increasingly rely on data to make critical decisions, the accuracy of that information becomes vitally important. Yet, the process for verification has been haphazard at best. Alation Inc., a company specializing is collaborative data cataloging, has introduced TrustCheck, a new …

Cohesity’s focus on secondary storage propels it to unicorn status, attracts government clients

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

When Cohesity Inc. announced last month that it had received a $250 million investment from SoftBank Corp.’s Vision Fund, the news was noteworthy for two reasons. It was the largest investment in a U.S. enterprise startup in nearly two years, and it …

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

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

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 …

AWS presence in Middle East fosters innovation as Bahrain embraces government cloud

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

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, …

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

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

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 …

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

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

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 …

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

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

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, …

VR pioneer Jaron Lanier quit social media and says you should too

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

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 …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

From dead broke to TV star: Mario Armstrong sings the praises of interactive tech

VMware’s sustainability initiative focuses on the future of global energy

Can your data be trusted? Alation rolls out TrustCheck for visual verification

Cohesity’s focus on secondary storage propels it to unicorn status, attracts government clients

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

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

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

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