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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Supercloud debate offers insight into key choices confronting enterprise IT

Over the past year, supercloud has been described as “an evocative term,” “the next big trend,” “a thing” and “an ontological nothingburger.” Why should customers care? This was the central point of discussion in a power panel of industry analysts convened by theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. While supercloud has been defined as an architecture ...

Developers will chart the course for cross-cloud services, says VMware’s Vittorio Viarengo

While the rise of supercloud has engendered debate over its meaning and impact within the IT industry, major technology players, such as VMware Inc., are keeping a close eye on those who drive key work in the enterprise. “Some say follow the money; I say follow developers,” said Vittorio Viarengo (pictured, right), vice president of Cross-Cloud ...

Upbound seeks to capitalize on Kubernetes’ growing role as an operating system for the cloud

Can a five-year old startup with $69 million in funding emerge as the solution of choice in the multicloud management space? This is the key question surrounding Upbound Inc. and its Crossplane open-source initiative. The release of Crossplane in 2018, and its eventual acceptance into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in June 2020, represented a major ...

Analysts forecast key enterprise data trends for 2023

Salesforce Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Marc Benioff once said, “You must always be able to predict what’s next and then have the flexibility to evolve.” This mantra could easily apply to the panel of industry analysts assembled by SiliconANGLE Media a year ago to discuss how data management was evolving and what listeners could expect ...

HPE and Intel combine forces to extend the next-gen ProLiant server portfolio in a hybrid world

On the same day that Intel Corp. unveiled its 4th Gen Xeon scalable processors, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. also introduced an expansion of its HPE ProLiant Gen11 next-generation portfolio powered by the Xeon chip platform. The timing of Tuesday’s announcements underscored interest among major server and processor suppliers in meeting the workload-driven needs of enterprise ...

How infrastructure growth is strengthening Dell’s enterprise hardware story

Since 1984, Dell Technologies Inc. has crafted its public image as a provider of branded hardware, such as laptops, desktops, monitors and even projectors. Yet observers of the company should keep a close eye on the rest of its business, as Dell pursues an ambitious agenda to reshape enterprise technology in several key areas. Nearly ...

Enterprise support for the metaverse flourishes at this year’s CES

Much of what has been written about the metaverse in 2022 centered around two words: failure and bust. Yet it appears that many of the 100,000 attendees and presenters at the CES 2023 consumer electronics show in Last Vegas this week hold a different view. From the industry research released this week by the Consumer ...

The ongoing mission to close the skills gap for IT practitioners

What started with a simple phone conversation seven years ago led to a $2 billion acquisition in 2021. That is how much Pluralsight LLC paid to acquire A Cloud Guru Ltd. in the middle of last year. When company co-founder Ryan Kroonenburg just missed getting hired for a job at a major cloud provider in ...

They said it in 2022: From one reporter’s notebook, memorable quotes from SiliconANGLE’s coverage

From the turmoil in digital currencies and rising complexity for information technology departments to advances in machine learning and continued challenges in cybersecurity, 2022 proved to be busy year in the technology world. Hundreds of interviews on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s live streaming studio, and SiliconANGLE’s ongoing news coverage of major tech events provided a bountiful ...

Cobalt 2.0 highlights power of cloud technologies for Infosys and its industry customers

Infosys Ltd. launched its Cobalt suite of reference architectures in the summer of 2020, offering 14,000 cloud assets and 200 industry blueprints. Now, the global system integrator has embarked on Cobalt 2.0, with a mission to transform industries. “We wanted to focus on industry clouds,” said Anant Adya (pictured, right), executive vice president for Infosys ...