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

Oracle’s Mark Hurd: Enterprise clouds are the safe security bet, and might even save CEOs’ jobs

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Enterprise clouds are a whole lot more secure than the Internet they depend on, a reality that will become more obvious with the coming Internet of Things, says Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Mark Hurd. Hurd made the case for enterprise clouds, no …

IT availability gap hinders innovation and costs companies, says analyst

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The difference between user demand and what information technology can deliver in the enterprise is holding back innovation, based on a 2017 study commissioned by Veeam Software Inc. and produced by the Enterprise Strategy Group Inc. The results, drawn from a survey …

Hyperconverged infrastructure adoption on the rise, says tech company COO

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The newly hired chief operating officer of Winslow Technology Group LLC, a provider of information technology solutions and consulting services, is in a position to hear from IT customers about what excites them. And he’s already heard enough to know that hyperconverged infrastructure is capturing …

Tape storage is alive and well, says Quantum datacenter product director

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

In the virtualized data center environment, there is seemingly no place for tape storage. But following Veeam Software Inc.’s “3-2-1 rule,” with three copies of data on two different kinds of media plus one stored offsite, Quantum has resurrected tape storage as …

Escape from the ‘Jurassic petting zoo’: Science firm overcomes aging IT

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Many companies would probably admit they have not spent enough on information technology system upgrades. Refresh budgets often do not survive when confronted with the realities of cost management in today’s competitive business environment. Yet when one scientific research firm realized it …

A Swiss success story in guarding against IT systems failure

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

It’s every data center manager’s worst nightmare. Two active directory controllers broke over the weekend, and now the information technology department at the Baloise Group faced the uncomfortable prospect that if a third controller failed, 1,500 branch personnel would be unable to do their …

Dell set to grow through channel partners, focused branding, says CMO

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Dell’s privatization in 2013 and $67 billion merger with EMC has been a four-year epic, running longer than many television series. The newly branded company that emerged — Dell Technologies Inc. — now stores more than half of the mission-critical data in …

How this Canadian university developed its own private cloud, shared it with others

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The data explosion hit the University of British Columbia hard a few years ago, because provincial law required that personal information in the custody of a public institution had to be stored and accessed only in Canada. So the school’s information technology …

The security revolution: Is protecting critical infrastructure all talk and no action?

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Through the first half of this year, the number of U.S. data breaches reached a record 791, which is 29 percent higher than a year ago. And a survey of leading security experts at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, last …

With a third of Veeam’s customers, NetApp sees gold in data management

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

NetApp Inc. is moving more into the enterprise business, and it is leveraging a strong partnership with Veeam Software Inc. to accomplish that. Both companies believe that as enterprise customers digitally transform their businesses, they will need the flexibility to manage and …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

IT availability gap hinders innovation and costs companies, says analyst

Tape storage is alive and well, says Quantum datacenter product director

How this Canadian university developed its own private cloud, shared it with others

The security revolution: Is protecting critical infrastructure all talk and no action?

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