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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Citrix and Nutanix team up to deliver employee friendly VDI solution

Nutanix Inc. and Citrix Systems Inc. are teaming up to deliver a streamlined application and virtual desktop infrastructure solution that is designed to improve the user experience across the enterprise. Both companies are responding to customer pleas for an easier way to deploy the necessary tools for workplace management with the end result being an ...

Illumio to use recent funding for global expansion against cyber threats

When Illumio Inc. announced new funding of $125 million last month, the investment (which was led by J.P. Morgan) gave further credibility to a growing field in computer security known as micro-segmentation. Illumio filters data access policies through its software products based on the belief that security controls should move with workloads and applications while ...

Nutanix on a roll with multi-cloud, but Microsoft and others could challenge, say analysts

In its move to the “invisible infrastructure,” Nutanix Inc. has been able to capitalize on a key shift in enterprise computing. “Storage as we know it is going away, and we’re moving towards infrastructure as code, which is just a stepping stone to cloud. But I don’t see multi-cloud as a winner-take-all market,” said Dave ...

Nutanix’s Pandey talks new accounting rules, Amazon and why no finish line is just fine

Nutanix Inc. has made plenty of news already this week with announcements of new cloud services products and a major partnership with Google Inc. In the midst of it all, Nutanix Chief Executive Officer Dheeraj Pandey (pictured) serenely juggles the demands of Wall Street, customers, the media and analysts with the confidence that he’s moved into a technology ...

Nutanix’s cloud vision gains clarity with Xi and Calm announcements at .NEXT

Two strategic announcements emerged from Wednesday’s Nutanix .NEXT conference keynote in Washington, D.C., involving how Nutanix Inc. will approach the hybrid cloud. When the first .NEXT conference was held two years ago, Nutanix “sort of teased us with a vision of cloud. Today, we saw that vision come into a little bit more clarity,”said Dave Vellante ...

Why does Plexxi’s CEO want to stay invisible?

By basing its technology on the “invisibility” of a cloud infrastructure, Nutanix Inc. has built a successful business around the concept of a worry-free system. So it was inevitable that a new set of companies would emerge to supply the Nutanix ecosystem with technology built around a similar idea. “In the same way that Nutanix ...

Simplification and reducing IT labor pain key topics at .NEXT, say analysts

Much of the chatter and news emerging from day one at this week’s Nutanix .NEXT conference in Washington, D.C., centered on simplification, eliminating the heavy lifting and reducing information technology’s labor pains. “… Digital transformation is something that the customers here are embracing. The hybrid multi-cloud, maybe not as much yet, so Nutanix is a little bit of ahead ...

Nutanix and IBM gear up for cognitive systems demand

With its pioneering technology to combine storage and servers, Nutanix Inc. has positioned itself as a key player in the hyperconverged market. Just last month, the company joined with IBM Corp. in a multi-year initiative to target workload solutions in large enterprises. That joint effort is focused on simplifying compatible architectures across data centers, particularly ...

Cognos deal looks better nine years later as data’s value rises

When IBM Corp. officially acquired Cognos Inc. in early 2008, the deal raised eyebrows based on the purchase price of $4.9 billion for a business intelligence software company. But now that data has become so valuable, to the point where everyone from baseball teams to social media sites depend on it as the lifeblood of ...

Breaking down silos and trusting data: Can Watson deliver the goods?

When IBM Corp. announced the Watson Data Platform last October, some viewed artificial intelligence product as little more than a repackaging of its governance, visualization and cloud analytics tools. The company, however, has taken great pains since to describe the platform as offering more than just a set of disparate services. “It’s not just us putting a bunch ...