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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Replatforming, interoperability and security emerge as key themes for VMware at Explore

We have already seen the “Great Resignation” when 47 million Americans voluntarily quit their jobs in 2021. In VMware Inc.’s view of the technology universe, 2022 will be the year of the “Great Replatforming.” At the VMware Explore gathering in San Francisco this week, Chief Executive Raghu Raghuram (pictured) appeared on the keynote stage and ...

HPE extends Trusted Supply Chain initiative globally for ProLiant servers

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is making a global push for supply chain security in its server line. Two years ago, HPE launched its Trusted Supply Chain initiative to advance end-to-end security in servers for U.S. federal and public sector customers. This month, HPE is announcing an expansion of this program globally for its ProLiant server ...

Dream of entrepreneurship drives Bassam Tabbara’s quest to democratize the cloud control plane

At a time when kids his age were playing Little League baseball or collecting marbles, Bassam Tabbara (pictured) was already a developer. He got his first computer as a child and started his own company at 14. “I started programming when I was nine,” said Tabbara, in an exclusive interview with SiliconANGLE Media. “I was immediately ...

What to expect during VMware Explore: Join theCUBE Aug. 30-Sept. 1

When EMC Corp. acquired VMware Inc. for $625 million in 2004, it was also the first year of VMworld. So perhaps it is only fitting that on the first gathering of VMware Explore in San Francisco this month, an acquisition is again front-page news. The newly renamed event comes at a time when much of ...

What to expect during the ‘Cybersecurity – Detect and Protect Against Threats’ event: Join theCUBE on Sept. 7

Events of the past year have focused the security community on a shifting environment in which tech vulnerabilities are playing a role in warfare, DevOps and global finance. Examples of this new reality can be seen in the use of cyber weapons during the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, persistent vulnerabilities found in the use ...

Supercloud expansion: Cloud influencer Sarbjeet Johal assesses market impact

The rise of supercloud has raised an intriguing question about the cloud market’s future: How will the major cloud providers react to having companies such as Snowflake Inc., Zscaler Inc. and Databricks Inc. building highly successful businesses on top of hyperscale platforms? On one hand, Amazon Web Services Inc. generates a handsome profit from its ...
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Application delivery drives Prosimo’s strategy for brewing supercloud services

The growth of superclouds, abstraction layers above and across hyperscale infrastructure, is leading to the creation of firms specifically designed to provide such services. One of these is Prosimo.io, a company that built its business around supporting a multicloud infrastructure strategy for delivering applications. It is a prime example of how the supercloud is filling ...

At Black Hat, tech confronts the cyber consequences of Ukraine war, Log4j and Web3

Technology has unintended consequences, and this reality is getting much of the security world’s focus as events play out this year. There was news at the Black Hat 2022 cybersecurity conference this week about creating an open standard for analyzing enterprise data, innovative new security tools and a declaration by the former head of government cybersecurity that ...
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Three insights you might have missed from Monaco Crypto Summit

The internet we know today, commonly referred to as Web 2.0, is dominated by companies providing services in exchange for user data. Web3 represents the internet that may soon rise to prominence, characterized by decentralized finance, blockchain-driven applications and participation in the metaverse. The world of cryptocurrencies has already seen its share of highs and lows. ...

Open hybrid cloud and quantum computing shape future for Red Hat thought leaders

This year’s Red Hat Summit gathering in early May provided an opportunity to step back from the enterprise computing treadmill and assess the long-term implications of where network innovation is headed. Along with news surrounding an edge platform opportunity with General Motors Corp. and the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, this year’s gathering ...