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

‘Token’ author wants more skin in the game for science and bolder bets on the blockchain

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

If David Siegel, chief executive officer of the Pillar Project and author of “The Token Handbook,” ran the National Science Foundation, projects would be funded on a much different basis than they are today. Taking a page from what he’s learned as …

Fannie Mae focuses on its enterprise data strategy

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

As the leading source of financing for U.S. mortgage lenders, the Federal National Mortgage Association, or Fannie Mae, generates and uses a significant amount of data. Yet, the government-sponsored enterprise found itself in a position several years ago with an organizational view …

Datrium’s latest software release furthers mission of simplicity for the hybrid cloud

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Datrium Inc.’s introduction of its DVX 4.0 software in April was the firm’s third major release in less than a year, underscoring its continued commitment to a mantra of simplicity. The latest release provides full support for Oracle Real Application Clusters on a …

IBM leverages Zerto for near-zero downtime in the multicloud world

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

When critical data assets were once stored on one platform, disaster recovery was a fairly straightforward process. Now that workloads and massive amounts of data are stored on-premises and in multiple cloud environments, the process has become significantly more complex. More importantly, …

Blockchain investor punctures the cryptocurrency hype balloon

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

About halfway through a presentation at Blockchain Week in New York City this month, Jimmy Song had heard enough. The venture partner of Blockchain Capital LLC’s funds had watched and listened as one entrepreneur labored through a slide deck to describe a new company …

OpenStack starting to look more like open infrastructure

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Roll back the calendar four years ago, and OpenStack was mostly associated with cloud software. Yet, the range of use cases where OpenStack’s technology is currently being applied, from network function virtualization in the telecommunications world to supporting over 200,000 computer processing …

Kontron and Canonical bring OpenStack and Kubernetes to the edge

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Delivering data from intelligent devices at the edge of computing networks involves a delicate dance between gateways that aggregate information and the infrastructure to bring data and enterprise sources together. The ballet is getting more complicated as computing applications and data services …

Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo rocks on, along with his company

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

A visit to the Pure Accelerate gathering in San Francisco this past week was a chance to walk amid the ghosts of history. Held at the century-old Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, the conference offered attendees an experience of listening to keynotes from …

Reporter finds lack of major OpenStack news, but keynote jolts conference

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

The OpenStack Foundation’s gathering this week was characterized by much talk of collaboration and little major news, according to one technology reporter in attendance. The journalist suggested that maturity of the technology may be one contributing factor. “With all respect to the OpenStack …

NAND support by Pure Storage is paying off for workload management

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

When Pure Storage Inc. announced over two years ago to support 3D NAND-designed flash storage in its products, the news did not draw a tremendous amount of attention. Yet the company’s decision is beginning to look like it could play a major role …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

‘Token’ author wants more skin in the game for science and bolder bets on the blockchain

Fannie Mae focuses on its enterprise data strategy

IBM leverages Zerto for near-zero downtime in the multicloud world

Blockchain investor punctures the cryptocurrency hype balloon

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