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

Security experts wonder if privacy is going extinct – and at what cost

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Data gathered from personal browsing habits is sold by brokers every second. Ride-hailing drivers must periodically resubmit their photos and license numbers in order to work, information that ultimately gets hacked. People at a border crossing into the U.S. must provide account …

Knightscope fights crime with robotic security guards

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Robotics has moved boldly into new fields, with machines now folding clothes, delivering towels, and offering advice on the best Italian restaurant near a hotel. Now a Silicon Valley company has created a robotics business around an area of growing importance for …

Recent deals boost Nuage Networks in software-defined WAN space

APPS By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Nokia’s Nuage Networks closed out 2017 with a flurry of new customer announcements, additional evidence that the software-defined network (or SDN) venture was gaining traction in the enterprise information technology world. Nuage added Fujitsu Ltd., Telus Corp. and China Pacific Insurance Co. Ltd. as customers …

Veritas-Nutanix partnership addresses data protection, privacy for multicloud users

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

A research study conducted by Veritas Technologies LLC in 2017 found that an alarming 69 percent of organizations erroneously believed that cloud service providers were responsible for client data protection and compliance with privacy rules. That gap in understanding, combined with an …

Riding the economic roller coaster with F5 Networks

APPS By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Some called it a bubble, others called it a bust. Whatever label was attributed to the collapse of dotcom companies in the period between 2000 and 2002, it was a bad time to be the chief executive officer of a fledgling technology …

IBM continues push for cognitive computing market with Power9

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

When Nutanix Inc. added IBM Corp. to its list of hardware partners last May, the move also signaled an offering of the first systems by Nutanix that would not depend on Intel’s x86-based servers. This decision by Nutanix to incorporate IBM’s Power Systems …

Is real-time data streaming this year’s shiny, new toy?

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s annual shopping holiday — Singles Day — was held on November 11 and set records once again for sales, generating $25 billion. It is larger than America’s versions of Cyber Monday and Black Friday combined. During the day, …

Federal officials love tech, unless it’s driverless cars, net neutrality or drones

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Wandering the trade show aisles showcasing talking robots, large screen TVs and the latest smartphones at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week were a Cabinet secretary and commissioners from the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission. All of …

The man who brought Netflix to AWS has big plans for Kubernetes

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

It was a gutsy decision back in 2009. Video distribution pioneer Netflix Inc. was weighing its options on whether to stay with its traditional data center model or move its fledgling movie streaming service to public cloud provider Amazon Web Services Inc. …

Warba Bank confronts network security challenges in Middle East

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Near the end of 2016, software-defined storage provider Nutanix Inc. added three veteran executives to its Europe, Middle East and Africa team. The company’s renewed focus on this emerging area of the global technology market is beginning to show results, at least in …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

Security experts wonder if privacy is going extinct – and at what cost

Knightscope fights crime with robotic security guards

Recent deals boost Nuage Networks in software-defined WAN space

Riding the economic roller coaster with F5 Networks

IBM continues push for cognitive computing market with Power9

Federal officials love tech, unless it’s driverless cars, net neutrality or drones

Warba Bank confronts network security challenges in Middle East

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