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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Calls for tougher stance toward Russia grow louder as ransomware attacks rage

The excruciatingly slow gears of the U.S. government are starting to move with more urgency when it comes to dealing with geopolitical ransomware attacks. The Colonial Pipeline hack and the ransomware breach of a major food processing facility in recent weeks, coupled with Windows server exploits and the still unfolding saga of an attack on ...

Turbonomic’s AI approach seeks to unify the full application stack

In an application-driven enterprise world, software should manage IT. This is the founding principle behind Turbonomic Inc. and its belief that software can assure optimal application performance in real time. It takes artificial intelligence and machine learning to allow applications to smarten up resourcing decisions in a complicated, highly monitored stack. “The world is over-alerted,” ...

Here are 5 insights you might have missed during HPE Discover 2021

HPE has been actively pursuing its edge compute, hybrid cloud and as-a-service strategies, all brought into sharp focus during HPE Discover 2021, which ran from June 22–24. As part of its coverage of the event, theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, conducted over 20 interviews with HPE executives, partners, customers and analysts before and during the ...

Transforming ideas into insight will be central focus of Cloudera virtual event on August 5

Big names have marked the history of Cloudera Inc. since its beginning in 2008. Its co-founders came from Google LLC, Yahoo and Facebook Inc. The firm rose to prominence through its association with the influential Hadoop ecosystem, leading to a merger with Hortonworks Inc. in 2019. In June, Cloudera announced that well-known private equity firms ...

Sales Impact Academy receives boost from Stage 2 Capital with $4 million investment

A growing go-to-market learning platform received a major boost forward today with the announcement that Stage 2 Capital would provide a $3 million seed round and $1 million in debt financing to fund additional educational content. Sales Impact Academy Ltd., which started in 2019, has seen 900% growth in subscription revenue over the past 12 ...

HPE’s new data console highlights customer need for simplicity and the changing face of storage

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. made a series of product announcements in early May that marked a notable progression in the firm’s enterprise strategy. HPE is extending beyond data storage into data management and is giving enterprise customers what it strongly believes they want. In announcing HPE’s new Alletra 6000 and 9000 storage arrays, company executives ...

Here are 5 insights you might have missed from Postgres Vision 2021, June 22-23

Over two days of presentations in June, participants at Postgres Vision 2021 explored the latest developments around PostgreSQL and the future of the enterprise database. The event was fully covered by theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, through interviews and articles highlighting the significant role of Postgres in advancing the future of data. Here are five  key ...

Fortinet exec offers key takeaways for managing hybrid workplace threats and modernizing government security

As businesses emerge from the global pandemic, when major sections of the workforce were forced to leave the office and work from home, it has become more apparent that not everyone is coming back. Enterprises are now grappling with a hybrid model, one where a percentage of employees may return to the workplace while others ...

Hybrid and interoperability are key initiatives for Samsung as it focuses on 5G at the edge

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is looking toward hybrid computing as a compelling opportunity for human and device interface at the edge. Mobile devices are becoming multisensory communication gateways for professional and personal use. The coming of fast, low-latency communication solutions such as 5G will create an entire new operating system at the edge. For Samsung, ...

Nokia embraces continuous delivery model for 5G software in cloud native approach

Nokia Corp. is pivoting its value proposition to cloud in a major way. The Finnish telecom company is embarking on a series of cloud-based initiatives designed to embrace cloud native principles, such as DevOps, continuous integration and continuous delivery of services. “We have to bring capabilities to tie networks together, migrate workloads between locations, and ...