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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My cloud infrastructure is built, now how do I monitor it?

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Imagine the experience of driving today’s car without any dashboard. No speedometer, gas gauge, trouble lights or temperature controls. That’s the example that unified monitoring software company CA Technologies Inc. likes to use when describing the challenge facing network administrators who must …

AWS partnership big news for VMware. The Google Cloud deal? Not so much, say analysts

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Industry analysts had no shortage of opinions at this week’s VMworld event in Las Vegas. Some new partnership announcements were major and gathered well-deserved attention; others fell flat. There was plenty of energy, fueled by a large number of new attendees, but …

IBM talks about alphas instead of betas in storage

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

When IBM Corp. announced its second quarter earnings in June, the news of two straight growth quarters in the company’s storage business got some attention. With flash as a catalyst and storage hardware margins on the rise, it made sense that the …

Dell EMC and VMware team up in the latest episode of ‘Stack Wars’

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

While there has been plenty of news this week surrounding VMware Inc.’s latest offerings, Dell EMC has not been lost in the shuffle. The company made several significant announcements involving the Software-Defined Data Center, turnkey hybrid cloud platforms and a set of …

VMware’s ‘big tent’ strategy designed to keep power players close

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

On Monday, VMware Inc. announced general availability for its customers by going live on the Amazon Web Services Inc. public cloud. On Tuesday, the company released the news that it would partner with Pivotal to provide commercial-grade Kubernetes distributions for both Google Cloud …

VMware extends private cloud to Dell Technologies

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

It seems as though announcements involving VMware Inc.’s private cloud technology are coming on a daily basis. On Tuesday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. rolled out a composable infrastructure for VMware private clouds. This followed the news last week that CenturyLink Inc. will …

Software-defined networking and security top of mind for VMware customers

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc.’s offerings, such as Wavefront, vRNI, NSX and AppDefense, are geared to support architectures in the evolving era of the software-defined data center. As the company’s customers realize that not everything is going into the public cloud, they are prioritizing solutions …

Corporate boards need AI to deal with cyber risks

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Increased cyberattacks are forcing many corporate boards to take a closer look at protection and prevention measures in the information technology infrastructure. And as boards become more involved, they are looking at a technology toolbox that includes artificial intelligence and machine learning …

VMware-AWS hybrid cloud partnership is music to Veeam CEO’s ears

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Today’s announcement that the VMware Cloud is now live on AWS made a lot of hybrid cloud fans very happy, as the partnership paved a smoother road for information technology administrators who want to run applications on-prem and in the cloud. One …

Former DHS secretary says corporate boards must manage risks and expectations

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Data breaches in the enterprise are no longer just a minor irritant. They have become a fact of life — a situation that brings renewed focus to the role that boards of directors should play in a company’s cybersecurity strategy. But the challenges …

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