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

Latest Kubernetes update sets stage for KubeCon in May

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

With the release of Kubernetes 1.10 in March, developers and users familiar with the project will have plenty to discuss when the community gathers in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 2 through 4 for KubeCon, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference. The first update in …

Oracle serves up its Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud, seasoned with Amazon-bashing

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

It’s probably a safe bet that when Oracle Corp. Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison wakes up in the morning, he doesn’t converse with Alexa. The company’s founder spent more than an hour Tuesday during a presentation at the company’s headquarters in …

From China to the US, AI still looks a lot like us: imperfect and still learning

AI By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence holds tremendous promise, has been a major disappointment or is a threat that will derail civilization as we know it. All of those views, in fact, were apparent during discussions this week at EmTech Digital 2018, the MIT Technology Review conference …

This data company is accelerating production to conquer the last mile

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Picture a room of information technology professionals where they are asked a simple question: How many have been working on a data science model that still has not gone into production after nine months? Then imagine that more than 90 percent raised …

Technologist learned organizational lessons from Yahoo failure

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Salim Ismail (pictured) has a vision for the organization of the future, and it doesn’t look anything like what exists today. Centralized authority will become distributed, closed decision-making will move toward openness and transparency, and predictability will transition into flexibility and rapid …

Now at the tipping point, football analytics offer new view of the game

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Walk into any National Football League stadium on game day and the scene is similar in many ways. There are cheerleaders, music, a very large scoreboard, vendors hawking food and drink in the aisles, and two helmet-clad teams doing battle on the field. Yet, …

Could programmable money dethrone the U.S. dollar?

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The U.S. dollar accounts for two-thirds (63.5 percent) of global reserves held in central banks around the world, according to the latest data from the International Monetary Fund. It is essentially the de facto global currency and has been since the Bretton Woods agreement …

Blockchain goes from proof of concept to production at IBM

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

When Satoshi Nakamoto released his seminal whitepaper on a peer-to-peer electronic cash system called bitcoin in 2008, he also outlined the underlying technology to operate the fledgling digital currency. That platform — the blockchain — has since evolved into a major global …

NBA advertisers chew on data from GumGum’s computer vision tool

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Last year, the National Basketball Association implemented a decision to allow sponsors to place small logo patches on player uniforms. It was the first time that the NBA had permitted jersey advertising, and it led to a key question: How would sponsors …

Game plan for IBM: Build AI enterprise for itself, showcase it for customers

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. announced the launch of Watson Assistant this week, an artificial intelligence agent that will allow enterprises to access stored data via text or voice command. IBM’s new digital assistant joins a growing list of AI-based offerings, such as Google Assistant, …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

From China to the US, AI still looks a lot like us: imperfect and still learning

Technologist learned organizational lessons from Yahoo failure

Now at the tipping point, football analytics offer new view of the game

NBA advertisers chew on data from GumGum’s computer vision tool

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