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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HPE’s Synergy platform promises easier path for private clouds

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Talk to any chief information officer and phrases like “single-click deployment,” “easier implementation” and “lower costs” will generally get their attention. That’s why the recent news from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. about a composable platform that combines VMware Inc.’s Cloud Foundation with …

Veritas platform upgrades, Microsoft deal strengthen data management portfolio

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

In the multicloud, software-defined, hyperscale world, Veritas Technologies LLC is all in. The company that separated from Symantec Corp. over two years ago is now firmly on the path to identify itself as a leading data management business, recognizing that information is …

Gainsight’s formula for SaaS customer success may turn it into a unicorn

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

A $52 million investment earlier this year has put customer success startup Gainsight Inc. closer to the rarefied air of a $1 billion valuation. That a company with a business model based on making other firms successful might achieve unicorn status itself is …

A bash script rap? Holberton student prepares for programming career

CUBE EVENT COVERAGE By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

In what might well be a technology industry first, an enterprising student at the Holberton School of Software Engineering in San Francisco, California, penned and posted a three-minute in-class rap performance about bash scripting. As the video went viral (at least inside …

Docker’s Moby Project feeds developer interest in container tools

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Being able to mix and match software components in container configuration has become an important part of virtualizing the distribution of applications in the enterprise stack. So when Docker Inc. announced the Moby Project at DockerCon earlier this year, it was both an opportunity …

IBM Blockchain scales to limit plastic waste around the globe

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

An ambitious project to recycle plastic refuse in developing countries that have little or no waste management systems is being powered by the IBM Blockchain. Big Blue’s use of the tamper-proof ledger system is only half the story, because the recycling project is …

Equifax breach, profit pressures squeeze open-source community, says Signal coder

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The open-source community may be headed toward a major turning point, thanks to a security breach of epic scale. When news broke this month that the personal credit records, including names, birthdates, Social Security Numbers and home addresses of 143 million people …

CenturyLink hopes acquisition, VMware deal will strengthen enterprise appeal

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

If telecom giant CenturyLink Inc.’s proposed acquisition of fiber networking provider Level 3 gains final approval, it will give the company a new set of products to sell to enterprise customers and will fit nicely with its strategy to be a major …

VMware prepares vSAN channel strategy for the server refresh wave

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The installation of new servers and ancillary hardware usually follows a five-year cycle in many enterprise data centers, although there is growing evidence that rapid change in information technology structures are causing cycle times to accelerate. VMware Inc. believes that 60 percent of …

Edge computing is the future, but security will be a challenge

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc.’s continued rise in popularity is testimony to customers’ desire for a flexible, virtualized system that can facilitate a common data structure, from the edge to the data center, from private clouds to public clouds. But customers also need their systems …

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