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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Startups, robots and Bon Jovi will mingle at Cloud City for new-look MWC Barcelona in June

When attendees arrive for the start of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on June 28, they will be in for a major surprise. Instead of the mammoth Ericsson AB booth that normally dominates Hall 2 of Fira Gran Via at the event, they will have an opportunity to mingle with 100 telepresence robots, observe a ...

Watch live: Swarm learning spotlights fresh strategies at HPE Discover 2021

Two of the hottest terms in enterprise networking today are SD-WAN, or software-defined wide-area network, and SASE, or secure access service edge. Because enterprises want to connect users to applications securely, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has made strategic moves last year to strengthen its hand in both realms. In September, HPE completed its $925 million ...

EDB turns up the heat on PostgreSQL to fire up enterprise database market

Before he became a top executive at Red Hat and then chief executive officer of EnterpriseDB Corp., Ed Boyajian was a captain in the U.S. Army and trained as an Airborne Ranger. Early in his military career, one of Boyajian’s commanders told the young lieutenant that people in the world either made things happen or ...

Watch live: Enterprise transformation builds momentum for Postgres Vision 2021

A brief glance at a list of the top five enterprise databases shows three released over the last 30 years, plus Oracle, which rose with the start of the company in 1979. Then there’s PostgreSQL. The roots of PostgreSQL go back nearly half a century. It began as Ingres, co-created by Michael Stonebraker and Eugene ...

HPE focuses on bringing the cloud to data through GreenLake

In the most recent quarterly results, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. reported an increase of 41% in total order growth for HPE GreenLake, citing “very strong momentum” for the company’s as-a-service offering that brings cloudlike flexibility to datacenters. The results demonstrated a validation of HPE’s as-as-service business strategy, with clear signals that customers were responding to ...
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Researchers at HPE assess the future in a data-driven, highly connected world

The work of Hewlett Packard Labs is generally focused on the transfer of advanced technologies into next generation products and solutions. Yet on occasion, the Labs’ leadership finds it necessary to step back, assess the landscape in front and make decisions about what lies ahead. This is the process recently experienced by one of the ...
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Cloud costs ignite fresh debate in tech community over where to run the enterprise

In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously declared that software would eat the world. Last month, two members of his investment firm Andreessen Horowitz made the case that cloud has been eating the enterprise’s money. In a post titled “The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox,” Martin Casado and Sarah Wang detailed an analysis of enterprise cloud ...

VC and industry leaders say enterprise climate is promising for startups, but practitioner contact will be key

As veteran venture capitalists with lengthy experience working inside the technology startup community, Peter Wagner, founding partner at Wing Venture Capital, and Katie Drucker, head of business development and partnerships at Madrona Venture Group, have plenty of perspective on the ups and downs of opportunity in the tech space. Right now, the arrow is mostly ...

Keynote analysis: AWS Startup Showcase on the future-ready tech gaining enterprise traction

Startups considering which future technology trends to track and build on for the businesses of tomorrow might be wise to take note of research coming out of the University of California at Berkeley. The seven co-founders of Databricks Inc. were previously researchers at the school, motivated by a common mission to find value inside of ...

HPE details the future for edge-to-cloud at Discover 2021

If numbers tell the story, then the current narrative for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. appears to be a tale of renewal and growth after a rocky stretch of revenue results over the past five years. The company’s second quarter fiscal earnings reported this month included a return to revenue growth for the first time since ...