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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Alation unveils Data Governance App and deepens partnership with Snowflake

In a world of distributed information fueled by an ever-expanding data cloud, governance matters. Earlier today, Alation Inc. announced new data governance capabilities and a deeper partnership integration with Snowflake Inc. to provide autonomous stewardship at scale. Alation announced the release and general availability of a new Data Governance App, designed for multicloud applications and ...

Watch live: Fortinet brings golf pros and technologists together for PGA Tour and Security Summit event Sept. 14

The cybersecurity space is fast-moving and continually in flux as new threats arise and the scale of attacks expands. For the cybersecurity platform Fortinet Inc., this reality has translated into a very busy year. Since April, the 21-year-old company has fine-tuned its Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE, solution, announced integration of Secure SD-WAN with ...

DevOps’ growing role in driving business will be major focus for Sept. 22 AWS Startup Showcase

There is an element in the current enterprise conversation around DevOps that should not be ignored. As every company must either go digital or risk going out of business, Dev and Ops become bookends for a process that contains the heartbeat of the organization. It’s no longer the product alone that drives the business; it’s ...

Partnership between Dell and Superna focuses on protecting unstructured data at the storage level

The growing use of artificial intelligence, machine learning, internet of things and processing at the edge is generating a significant amount of unstructured data. This has also created a need to protect this information from cyberattack as it becomes more critical to running a business. A combined technology solution from Dell Technologies Inc. and Superna ...

Watch live: Scalable migration will be part of focus for AWS Storage Day on September 2 

In a world where a rideshare, a four-course meal, or tickets to a concert down the street can be delivered with just a few taps on a smartphone, enterprise storage has become commoditized as well. Anyone looking for high-performance block storage at any scale can have it delivered with just a few clicks. This is ...

FortiGuard Labs reports major jump in ransomware as criminals use botnets to attack the edge

The semiannual release of the FortiGuard Labs “Global Threat Landscape Report” is usually a good opportunity to get a temperature reading on the state of cybersecurity. Based on the latest report, released in August, ransomware is boiling hot. Threat intelligence from the first half of 2021 showed a tenfold increase in ransomware attacks, with noticeable ...

Here are 5 insights you might have missed from Cloudera’s ‘Transform Innovative Ideas’ event

Cloudera Inc. and theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, co-hosted the “Transform Innovative Ideas Into Data-Driven Insights” event in early August, which featured interviews with company executives, customers and industry analysts. Along with numerous stories written from the event, here are five additional insights you might have missed. (* Disclosure below.) 1. Data integrity will take ...

AWS Storage Day to offer insight into company’s evolving hybrid strategy on Sept. 2

Clouds and flash may sound like the description for a sudden summer thunderstorm, but they actually represent the two most disruptive forces in the enterprise storage business over the past 15 years. The cloud platform, led by the introduction of Simple Storage Service, or S3, from Amazon Web Services Inc. in 2006, put object storage ...

A 10-year journey with MySQL brings Oracle’s HeatWave into the query database discussion

When Oracle Corp. acquired the rights to MySQL through its purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. in 2010, the company had a decision to make. Should it pursue a set of partnerships to retool the database technology for broader enterprise use, or should it integrate hardware and software innovation into its own in-house engineering solution? Oracle ...

Here are 5 insights you might have missed from ‘The Cookie Conundrum’ event

The reliance on third-party cookies to track user behavior for advertising is going away based on plans outlined by Google LLC, provider of the dominant Chrome browser with 69% of the market. What will this mean for the advertising industry and consumers? This was a focus of “The Cookie Conundrum: A Recipe for Success,” a ...