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.

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The FCC is happy to talk about all things digital. Net neutrality? Don’t ask.

Over the course of two full days of appearances in San Francisco this week, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and three of his fellow commissioners covered a lot of ground, including 5G network deployment, small cell installation, broadcast spectrum auctions, emergency response, competition in the wireless industry and closing the digital divide. They even waxed ...

Hyperledger Project strives to reboot thorny problems of the world

What if the cost of shipping a container halfway across the world could be reduced by 50 percent? Or patient records could be available immediately in any medical facility around the globe? Or every shipment of food could be tracked mile by mile to avoid spoilage? These are a few of the problems that the Hyperledger ...

Open Container Initiative reaches ‘great milestone,’ says Red Hat chief technologist

After two years of work, the Open Container Initiative launched Version 1.0 for container runtime and image specifications in July. OCI’s foundation, formed by a number of container industry leaders, was tasked with the mission to create specifications that would support container portability across different operating systems and platforms. Red Hat Inc.’s chief technologist likes the specifications ...

Cloud control, IoT solutions part of Hitachi Data Systems’ enterprise plan

Hitachi Data Systems Corp. started with a focus on hardware solutions and supporting the infrastructure. But more recently the wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. has significantly increased its software portfolio to meet the data-driven needs of customers. As new releases from VMware Inc. and other enterprise suppliers become available, integration with servers and backend storage becomes ...

Rackspace applies ‘fanatical’ service to hosted private cloud

After more than 10 years of partnership with VMware Inc., Rackspace Inc. now runs one of the largest vSphere (cloud computing virtualization platform) footprints in the world. So when the managed service provider recently announced that its Rackspace Private Cloud was available and would be powered by VMware’s Cloud Foundation, the news was yet another ...

IBM hints at smarter storage, but the conversation is all about data

IBM Corp.’s recent announcement of Spectrum Protect Plus, protection software for cloud, data center or virtualized platforms, is more about data than it is about simplifying storage management. And the company is not shy about making sure its customers know that. “The C-suite hates storage, including the CIO [chief information officer], but they do love ...

Simpler, better, cheaper: Can IT managers have all three?

Presented with the three options of simpler, cheaper or better, and only two can be selected, which makes the most sense? Ask any information technology manager who is trying to decide the best model among a bewildering array of storage choices for on-premises or off-premises data centers, and they are likely to ask for the ...

The data center’s backbone: VMware’s strategy comes into focus

During what was largely viewed as a cattle stampede to the public cloud, enterprise information technology managers suddenly came to the realization that they might be leaving something important behind: their data. This sudden moment of clarity changed the “public cloud or bust” movement into something that analysts at Wikibon Inc. have termed an evolution ...

Red Hat expands Ansible’s enterprise automation portfolio with new releases

Red Hat Inc. introduced several new tools for its Ansible automation platform on Thursday that are designed to further the cause for automating huge enterprise information technology operations. Ansible bills itself as a simple “IT automation engine” that automates cloud provisioning, software configuration management, application deployment and other IT tasks. The new solutions are meant ...

Getting out of hock: Dell EMC tailors solutions for absorbing the ‘tech debt’

With a wide range of technologies for the enterprise, Dell EMC is seeking to meet customer needs across the spectrum, from a basic “do-it-yourself” hardware infrastructure to the fully integrated, pre-configured VxRail hyperconverged appliance. The company’s intent is to help manage transitions in enterprise computing by offering products to customers that instill confidence rather than ...