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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Teradata’s cloud-first vision shows results with customers and Wall Street

When Teradata Corp. delivered its fourth quarter earnings report last month, the numbers contained a surprise for Wall Street observers. Annual recurring revenue for public cloud-based services grew to $106 million, a 165% increase year-over-year. The news has led longtime followers of the 42-year-old database and analytics services provider to take a closer look at ...

US inches toward payments modernization while China races ahead

A wave of digital transformation has swept the world during the past year, driven by a global pandemic and wholesale adoption of cloud-connected tools. But there’s little sign of all that change when you try to do something as seemingly simple as buying something in a store. As many a shopper can attest, paying for ...

HPE Ezmeral redefines the power of data analytics and containers in March 17 event

As many tech users know, when a device suddenly slows to a crawl, the best solution is to simply clear the cache and reboot. That is essentially what Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. did with its software business in 2016. Nearly five years ago, HPE sold its software portfolio to Micro Focus International PLC for $8.8 ...

Watch live: HPE hybrid solutions will highlight GreenLake Day on March 10

GreenLake’s growing contribution to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s as-a-service business strategy is emerging as one of the company’s more notable story lines for 2021.  Introduced as a pay-per-use suite of IT solutions for customer workloads, GreenLake hit the market in 2017. Less than a year later, HPE had already accumulated $5 billion in assets under ...

Observability moves to the center of the distributed systems conversation

In an age of distributed systems, cloud native architectures, and workloads, the act of “monitoring” has morphed into “observability,” yet both remain important as enterprises manage complex hybrid and multicloud infrastructure. The distinction between monitoring and observability can be tricky to pin down. But the two terms are increasingly being differentiated by monitoring solutions for traditional system architectures ...

Hybrid and as-a-service strategies will be center stage for HPE’s GreenLake Day on March 10

In June 2019, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced that it would offer its entire product portfolio as a service by 2022. Nearly two years later, that big bet is showing signs of paying off. And a key element driving the initiative is HPE GreenLake. Launched in November 2017, GreenLake was introduced as a pay-per-use suite ...

Stardog’s knowledge graph platform helps enterprises fetch relevant insight from mountains of data

For some enterprises, data can be a blind spot, a large repository of information with little connection to the goals and objectives of the business. To address that issue, companies are turning to knowledge graphs that combine artificial intelligence, virtualization and graph to unify disparate data into a meaningful, real-world context. One startup that has ...

Build or die: How Twitter, Twilio and Snowflake co-founders transformed the enterprise

Anyone who has ever used Twitter, eaten a plant-based product from Beyond Meat, adjusted the temperature using a Nest thermostat, researched a pin on Pinterest, communicated via Slack or paid for a meal using Square has one person to thank: Biz Stone. The lifelong technologist (pictured) has been either a co-founder or an early investor ...

OpenTelemetry attracts major enterprise interest in drive to set common observability standard

Without traffic signals and signage, life would not be pleasant on local streets; motorists would drive in opposing lanes and chaos would ensue. A stop sign is a reliable standard; it means the same thing no matter where it may be located. The OpenTelemetry project is the computing industry’s attempt to provide a de facto standard ...

Global AWS program thinks big for small and medium-sized business

In the aftermath of a global pandemic, the road to recovery will undoubtedly run through small and medium-sized businesses. In recognition of this, Amazon Web Services Inc. has announced the global launch of its Think Big for Small Business Program for small and minority owned partners. The global expansion follows a pilot introduction of the program ...