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

Startup creates new tools to let FPGA programmers fly

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Intel Corp.’s field programmable gate array acceleration stack offers tremendous potential for developers to deploy applications and workloads at maximum performance. But there can be issues when software programmers try to build applications for hardware platforms, including the time it takes. One startup …

Accelerated processing teaches autonomous cars to drive in minutes

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Speed is the name of the game in the processor world, and the latest competitive sprint down the innovation track involves field programmable gate arrays, known as FPGAs. Since Intel Corp. announced FPGA acceleration platforms operating with Xeon CPUs early last month, several …

Scientists mapping the Universe take on the ultimate big data challenge

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Nearly every enterprise has plenty of data to process, but a group of scientists in England may be facing the ultimate challenge. They are researchers with the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, known as COSMOS, at the University of Cambridge, and their database …

HPE’s Synergy and OneSphere star in the big IT picture

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. introduced Synergy (combined compute, storage and network hardware in one chassis) two years ago, the company claimed it would sharply reduce data center costs and provisioning time. Now, DreamWorks Animation LLC, the legendary animation studio (home of “Shrek,” …

Amazon is an 800-pound gorilla that moves like a cheetah, says analyst

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

There are plenty of technology companies with hefty revenue, tens of thousands of employees and a sizable global customer base. There are also smaller, nimble firms with modest profits that can innovate fast and keep larger competitors scrambling to keep up. And …

Amazon would have been built on AWS, says Andy Jassy

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The colossus that is now Amazon, with a stock price above $1,100 per share and over $4.5 billion in quarterly earnings, got its humble beginning in 1995 as a website that sold only books. Cloud computing at that time was a mere …

AWS calls out the competition, but can CEO Andy Jassy back it up?

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Although Amazon Web Services Inc. has made plenty of news this week with a multitude of headline-grabbing announcements, much of the talk has surrounded Andy Jassy’s pointed remarks on Wednesday about competitors. The AWS chief executive officer delivered particularly sharp comments about …

Aruba, Nimble and incoming CEO could propel HPE forward

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

New leadership is coming to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. on February 1 when current Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman steps down and Antonio Neri (HPE’s current president) takes over. At first glance, it would appear that the company is trading a business and …

AWS intends to transform more than just cloud computing

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Today’s string of announcements from AWS re:Invent focused on new cloud tools for writing and debugging code and the migration of Echo‘s artificial intelligence technology into business products. But underlying his keynote presentation, Amazon Web Services Inc. Vice President and Chief Technical Officer Werner Vogels had …

HPE tech brings data center to the edge, and outer space

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The growing focus on data collection and processing by “internet of things” devices is leading information technology executives to seek new solutions that can deliver results at the edge similar to what they know and love in the data center environment. Hewlett …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

Startup creates new tools to let FPGA programmers fly

Accelerated processing teaches autonomous cars to drive in minutes

Scientists mapping the Universe take on the ultimate big data challenge

HPE’s Synergy and OneSphere star in the big IT picture

Amazon is an 800-pound gorilla that moves like a cheetah, says analyst

Amazon would have been built on AWS, says Andy Jassy

AWS calls out the competition, but can CEO Andy Jassy back it up?

Aruba, Nimble and incoming CEO could propel HPE forward

AWS intends to transform more than just cloud computing

HPE tech brings data center to the edge, and outer space

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