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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Analysts assess strategic detail around Infor’s Coleman and Birst

Infor Inc. followed up its June 2017 acquisition of Birst Inc., a cloud-native business intelligence, analytics and data visualization platform, with the announcement today of Coleman, an artificial intelligence platform for CloudSuite applications. How those two platforms will complement Infor’s strategic direction was the central question as the company kicked off its Inforum 2017 event in New York. “One ...

Seeing dividends in copy data, Pure Storage and Catalogic Software speak on partnership

When Pure Storage Inc. announced a partnership with Catalogic Software Inc. nearly one year ago to jointly produce a copy data management product for enterprise information technology, it was widely seen as an important moment for the two firms. Pure Storage was in a legal dogfight against disk powerhouses like EMC, and Catalogic was beginning to ...

Ambitious cloud strategy to fuel Nutanix’s growth, says chief product officer

Nutanix Inc. made significant news at its .NEXT gathering last week with the announcement of a partnership with Google to help large enterprises migrate workloads to the cloud. However, as comments from the chief product officer at Nutanix indicate, cloud options are numerous and his company is planning to cover as many bases as possible. “For ...

New DNA sequencing platform gets results into the hands of physicians faster

Although the healthcare industry has often been more cautious than other sectors in embracing new technologies, there are signs that hospitals and other patient care organizations are beginning to adopt the enterprise model when it comes to data management. This might involve mimicking attributes of a public cloud when it makes sense on-prem and implementing server ...

Entrepreneur talks Thingalytics: Evolving trends in the IoT world

John Bates (pictured) has worn many hats, from entrepreneur to professor to author. As a businessman, he built and sold software company PLAT.ONE  to SAP SE that specialized in communication between machines and Internet of Things devices. And as an author, he’s written about the enormous opportunity for people and enterprises in the IoT world in his ...

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 ...