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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Nvidia’s AI Enterprise software solution provides fresh insights for University of Pisa researchers

It is no secret that Nvidia Corp. has spent years building an extensive practice in artificial intelligence. One press release described the company’s work in the field as a “leading AI computing platform.” In partnership with VMware Inc., Nvidia has leveraged the vSphere cloud virtualization platform to deploy its AI Enterprise software suite in conjunction ...

Latest security enhancements from Splunk address visibility and speed of response

The maxim in the security world that “one cannot protect what one cannot see” also applies to some of the tools that actually provide visual access. How much can administrators in a security operations center really see or understand what is happening when they are staring at multiple consoles for hours at a time? “When ...

Observability and OpenTelemetry are key elements in Splunk’s strategic focus

The rapid migration of microservices and containerized workloads to the cloud demands an ability to have a full view of how the pieces work together at any given point in the process. The solution is observability, an area in which Splunk Inc.’s Spiros Xanthos (pictured) is very familiar. Xanthos, who quite appropriately wears a T-shirt with the ...

IBM propels hybrid agenda with latest Spectrum Storage announcements

In a blog announcement posted last week by Chris Saul, program director of product marketing at IBM’s Spectrum Storage portfolio, the company unveiled a number of enhancements designed to deploy solutions and resilience for the hybrid cloud. The announcements covered a lot of ground, including new capabilities for Spectrum Virtualize, boosting AIOps for IBM’s FlashSystem, enhancements ...
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CEO Doug Merritt says Splunk remains focused on driving revenue and customer success

Eighteen years after its founding, Splunk Inc. has become a central part of the big data conversation. The company has grown to over 7,500 employees and counts 91 of the Fortune 100 companies as customers. Over that time, Splunk’s role has evolved from being just one of many tech tools within an organization to empowering ...

Splunk’s SURGe initiative seeks to raise cybersecurity response to a new level

On a chilly night in mid-December, security researchers at Splunk Inc. began to see numerous references to SolarWinds pop up in Slack channels and security forums frequently used by those who guard major public and private network systems against attack. It didn’t take long for the security community to suspect that something big was happening, ...

McLaren Racing’s CEO Zak Brown talks about how his team is driven by data and Splunk

On many weekends during the year, auto sports fans from around the world tune in to watch Formula One, the highest class of international racing for single seat cars. It is high entertainment on a global stage, yet many of the millions who follow Formula One may not be aware they are witnessing what may ...

Advances in DPU and programmability drive latest switch solution from Aruba and Pensando Systems

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, and Pensando Systems Inc. have recently announced a new programmable switch designed to enable a multitude of stateful functions on a switch platform. The new addition to the Aruba portfolio is the CX 10000. It represents a significant advance in distributed services architecture for IT environments. What is under ...
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Teresa Carlson sees transformational opportunity for Splunk in growing cloud data management space

Approximately six months ago, Splunk Inc. made headlines with the news that it had hired longtime Amazon Web Services Inc. executive Teresa Carlson (pictured) to step into the newly created role of president and chief growth officer. Carlson, who led the worldwide public sector practice for AWS, had seen the transformational power of cloud technology ...

Aruba and Pensando Systems introduce CX 10000 to address shifting datacenter traffic flows

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. company, and Pensando Systems Inc. are collaborating on a change in datacenter technology which recognizes that the flow of data traffic is shifting. Data has traditionally flowed north-south, or in and out of a datacenter to other locations. Now that datacenter architecture has expanded to include cloud and edge ...