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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Cribl forges strategic alliance with Elasticsearch for enhanced observability and AI integration

Less than a month after announcing that it had surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, Cribl Inc. unveiled a new partnership on Wednesday with Elasticsearch Inc. The observability company’s strategic collaboration with Elastic will provide customers with increased data flexibility; improved capabilities for security information and event management, or SIEM; and simplified migrations to ...

Sycomp, IBM and Google collaborate on solution for data access from hundreds of virtual machines

One of the challenges for high-performance computing is to enable organizations to access massive amounts of data and deliver that to applications regardless of where these sit in the enterprise. This is a complicated problem to solve in the current hybrid computing world, and Sycomp, A Technology Company Inc., a global provider of data center, ...

Dell and atNorth point toward a sustainable data center future using HPC and AI

Liquid-cooled machines powering a high-performance computing and AI future could one day provide the heat for our houses. This is the core sustainable business proposition behind atNorth, a Pan-Nordic data center services company offering cost-efficient, scalable colocation and HPC solutions across Iceland, Sweden and Finland. At a data center located in Ballerup, Denmark, within the ...

What to expect during the Cyber Resiliency Summit: Join theCUBE Dec. 12

As a particular technology becomes increasingly more popular and useful, it may also gain the attention of malicious hackers. A newly released “Kubernetes Security Report” detailed an analysis of over 200,000 cloud accounts and found evidence that hackers were discovering containers anywhere from minutes to less than three hours after creation. The report provides yet another ...

Quest for simplicity: Dell and Microsoft build streamlined bridges for hybrid cloud computing

The more the technology world grows in complexity, the more the key players in it are motivated to find simpler solutions. This can be seen in generative AI, which is all about simplifying the ability to extract answers and perform tasks using a mountain of data. Today’s cybersecurity landscape is being reshaped by interest on ...

Turning data into gold: How AI-powered decision-making is transforming the global financial industry

When it comes to data collection, financial institutions have a rich trove of readily accessible real-time client information. When a consumer moves homes, buys a car, pays college tuition or simply swipes a credit card, the transactions are recorded in a database. It is a massive amount of highly regulated customer data, and this makes it ...

Supercloud 5 is coming: Explore the generative AI impact on cloud titans at theCUBE’s upcoming event, Nov. 28-Dec. 1

The high-powered trio of Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC have exerted significant influence over the cloud landscape. Will the rise of generative artificial intelligence help or hurt the hyperscalers as they seek to leverage this technology for a competitive edge? This question and others will be a key focus during SiliconANGLE’s ...

Google’s managed Kubernetes offering seeks to eliminate ‘confusion as a service’ for enterprise users

On Thursday, Google LLC announced that GKE Enterprise, its managed Kubernetes service, would be generally available next week. The service was first previewed by Google about two months ago as a solution to reduce the amount of effort required to run containerized environments. “We’re introducing here at KubeCon the new evolution of Kubernetes, which we ...

Popularity of Kubernetes shows why storage still matters to Red Hat and IBM

It took a village to get persistent storage into Kubernetes. As the container orchestration tool grew in popularity, users wanted persistence or an ability to retain data after a device had been shut down. In the 2015 timeframe, Red Hat Inc. engineers convened a group of leading storage providers to find a way to add ...
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Laptop vs. cloud: Two leading software engineers assess where developers will choose to work

Could the laptop soon replace the cloud as the preferred development environment for enterprise coders? That possibility was set forth by software engineer and developer advocate Kelsey Hightower in a late October post that has received nearly 700,000 views to date and sparked a spirited online debate. Hightower’s comment noted that faster, more powerful processors ...