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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Acquisitions fuel HPE’s latest enhancements for data protection through GreenLake platform

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. purchased Zerto Inc. for $374 million last year, it was expected the acquisition would result in new solutions for the data management and protection space. Those expectations became clearer on Tuesday when HPE announced new solutions for the growing data protection as-a-service market. As part of a series of announcements ...

HPE adds unified analytics and native Kubernetes object store to GreenLake offering

IDC has predicted that the big data and analytics software market will reach $110 billion over the next two years. On Tuesday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. added its own disruptive influence through GreenLake to a transformation of that market. The company announced a series of new cloud services for the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform, with ...

Governance, security and data access: How Privacera offers a platform to ensure all three

The conundrum facing many businesses today is how to have maximum access to data while keeping it compliant and secure. Giving the right people access to the right data and nothing more is the mandate. How a company does that effectively without grinding business to a halt is the challenge. This is the task that ...

Okera sets sights on data authorization for the enterprise amid heightened regulatory climate

In March, Okera Inc., a universal data authorization company, announced a year of record growth with a 374% rise in new bookings and an over 100% increase in annual recurring revenue. There was probably a good reason for the robust numbers this year. Increased enforcement of privacy regulations, such as Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation ...

Container security grows in importance as Red Hat expands automated solutions following key acquisition

Enterprise security has become a top-of-mind issue over the past year and a half, as a wider attack surface, costly ransomware attacks and high-profile breaches affecting energy, government, education and a major swath of the private sector have captured global attention. Throughout all of this activity, there is a key question that surrounds the cybersecurity ...

Watch live: Situational automation offers glimpse into future of enterprise IT at AnsibleFest 2021, Sept. 29-30

One U.S. city used Ansible Automation to provision resources for creation of a virtual emergency operations center when COVID-19 struck last year. In another state, an IT department employed the platform to speed delivery of digital services through 19 government agencies for residents. Automation platforms, such as Red Hat Inc.’s Ansible, are increasingly being deployed ...
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Oracle announces Exadata enhancements with release of X9M family of products

Oracle Corp. introduced its Exadata platform for customers to run the technology giant’s database offering in October 2008. Today, the company celebrated Exadata’s 13th birthday by releasing a number of new enhancements. The X9M version represents a new family of products designed to make Exadata easier to use, more manageable, more highly available and with ...

Here are 5 insights you might have missed from the AWS Storage Day event

The second day in September marked an opportunity for Amazon Web Services Inc. to hold its third annual Storage Day event, which included exclusive insights and announcements from leaders across AWS Storage. TheCUBE’s coverage of AWS Storage Day featured interviews with key executives from the cloud provider and other firms, who shared a rich perspective ...

Ascend.io partners with Steady Platform to pull DevOps principles into the data world

How much pressure are enterprise data teams facing today? It’s a tricky subject to measure, but one company has given it a try. Ascend.io published the results of a study in June that found that 96% of data professionals are at or over capacity. Metrics such as these point to a conclusion that data teams are ...

HelloFresh team transitions to data mesh with governance and buy-in from users

One of the strongest examples of an early pioneer in data mesh, a highly decentralized data architecture, is not a telecommunications firm, large-scale manufacturing business or even a financial industry giant. It’s HelloFresh SE, a German publicly traded meal kit company. The data team at HelloFresh found itself in a whirlwind of growth as the ...