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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Google takes an opinionated view of how generative AI can be used in cybersecurity

On Monday, Google LLC announced a large language model fine-tuned for cybersecurity operations. The new generative AI model, Sec-PaLM, is designed to address enterprise challenges around threat overload, tool sprawl and a shortage of talent in the cybersecurity business. The LLM leverages years of accumulated threat intelligence gathered by Google and Mandiant Inc., which was ...
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Growth of generative AI is leading to change moment for DevOps

The role of data in DevOps is changing, facilitated by the introduction of powerful new generative artificial intelligence engines such as ChatGPT. The success of DevOps in modern, cloud-native environments has given rise to platform engineering, and among the many byproducts of this trend is a growing potential for AI and machine learning to be ...

Report from QlikWorld: Qlik sets its own course toward the brave new world of data apps

Whether it’s an aggressive acquisition strategy or intriguing uses of its technology by big-name customers, QlikTech International AB generated a fair amount of buzz in Las Vegas this week. In theCUBE’s just-concluded coverage of QlikWorld 2023, interviews with company executives and customers highlighted how the enterprise world may be very application-centric right now but business logic ...

United Nations, Qlik and global foundations make the case for a sustainable future

Progress toward a more sustainable world can start with data. According to data from the United Nations, UN Secretariat staff took 100,000 trips in 2017. While the global pandemic has presumably brought that number down significantly since, the nature of the UN’s charter demands a significant amount of international transit, and this can take its ...

Data modernization and AI’s role in transforming business data analytics

Business analytics companies such as QlikTech International AB are currently engaged in an extensive dialogue with customers around data modernization. It is a conversation about old versus new and what the future holds for how data will be used in the modern enterprise. More often than not, the conversation Qlik is having with its customers ...

HPE’s Cole Humphreys envisions meaningful supply chain security for enterprise IT

Firmware security is the Achilles’ heel of IT infrastructure. An organization can spend huge amounts of money on sophisticated security solutions, but if firmware is breached, threat actors can take control of a machine and bypass even the most stringent protections. This issue led the U.S. government to assess IT supply chain vulnerabilities and release a ...

Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s ‘Data-Driven Begins With Intelligent Infrastructure’ event

The amount of data being generated each year on a global basis demands an agile, intelligent approach to infrastructure in order to manage it. During the March 30 “Data-Driven Begins With Intelligent Infrastructure” event, industry analysts and Hitachi Vantara executives and partners held a real-world discussion on leading trends for infrastructure modernization. They also analyzed ...

What to expect during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU: Join theCUBE April 19-21

The massive adoption of Kubernetes as a key solution for enterprise computing makes it inevitable that as new technologies come on the horizon, the container orchestration tool will be involved in some way. Emerging tech solutions such as edge computing and the AI-based ChatGPT provide two prime examples of where Kubernetes will undoubtedly play an ...

Volume and distributed nature of data leads Hitachi Vantara to build new solutions for the modern stack

Enterprises are on a mission to become data-driven, however, many organizations continue to struggle with data infrastructure, seeking the right balance to achieve objectives for security, sustainability and agility. Hitachi Vantara LLC has been working with customers and partners to streamline the transition to a data-driven, intelligent infrastructure. The company is helping enterprises build for ...

Generative AI and cloud zombies: Raising the alarm about global climate impact

The tech industry has a growing power usage and environmental impact problem. Between the rise of cloud and compute-intensive applications such as cryptomining and artificial intelligence, power demand has expanded at an alarming rate. The Bitcoin network uses approximately the same amount of energy that Washington State does yearly. Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer for ...