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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Global adoption for Dell’s PowerStore reflects interest in modular storage approach

When Dell Technologies launched PowerStore in May, the mid-range storage product was promoted as a “modern infrastructure platform built from the ground up.” With performance optimized to be seven times faster and three times more responsive than previous Dell EMC mid-range storage arrays, it remained to be seen whether customers would embrace the new technology. Six ...

Storage as a service drives Dell EMC’s outcome-based approach

As Dell Technologies Inc. continues to transform its portfolio into an “as-a-service” model, its Dell EMC storage operation is taking that movement to heart. The company is making a number of enhancements to its storage line, including the delivery of an infrastructure-based solution. “We are in the process of building out the first true storage ...

Dell offers vault solution to protect data as companies face new dilemma in ransomware attacks

U.S. companies that are victimized by a ransomware attack may now have to think twice about paying to recover valuable data. Paying off the attackers may result in an even stiffer penalty from the nation’s government. In early October, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued an advisory warning that payment to recover data from a ...

Telcos face key cloud decisions in 5G deployment as edge market begins to heat up

Telecommunications firms have been labeled “bit handlers” or “dumb pipes,” and as major technology firms built massively profitable businesses on the backbone of the internet, telcos could only watch from the sidelines. But the coming of 5G and edge computing is about to change the game for much of the tech industry, and telcos may ...

PowerStore gains traction as Dell simplifies product portfolio and emphasizes service delivery

Over the past two years, Dell Technologies has been working to simplify its product portfolio under the Power brand. These major portfolio elements now include PowerEdge servers, PowerScale data management, PowerMax all-flash and PowerFlex for software-defined storage. In May, Dell announced PowerStore, a storage array line designed for the mid-range market. The results to date ...

Dell Technologies weighs value levers in potential spin-off of VMware

One tech company is doing well, but it is saddled with a lot of debt that it would like to pay down. That company owns a large share in another tech business that is doing extremely well financially, thanks to an aggressive acquisition strategy and significant spending in research and development. Why not spin-off the ...

How Dell helps customers channel AI solutions from proof of concept to production

As enterprises pursue business solutions through artificial intelligence, there are often roadblocks along the way. Dell Technologies is positioning itself as a resource for organizations to put new AI solutions into production. Customers have business challenges that get transformed into data science problems, and that’s where the hard work often begins. “That data science problem ...

Project Monterey’s SmartNIC solution offers modern architecture for applications and security

VMware Inc.’s recent announcement of Project Monterey, a re-architecture of VMware Cloud Foundation from the hardware up to support modern applications, has opened the doors for a wide range of enterprise resources. Putting the equivalent of a data center on a chip will do that. The key innovation behind Project Monterey involves VMware’s use of ...

The PC lives on: Dell eyes enhancements for product line while overall demand rises

When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs stepped onto a stage in San Francisco in 2010 and unveiled the iPad, some observers believed they were witnessing the end of the personal computer. Ten years later, another legendary tech company founder — Michael Dell — took delight via Twitter in reminding the world that “the death of the ...

Sensor growth and 5G will shape Dell’s strategic approach for the multicloud world

The coronavirus has slowed a number of global markets, but the sensor industry is not one of them. Sensors control lights and temperature in homes and hotels, are installed in a wide range of industrial applications, can now be found in most automobiles, and are even carried around by the 3.5 billion people who own ...