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.

Latest from Mark Albertson

Maxar develops high-performance computing solution to accelerate weather forecasting

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

When a major storm threatens industrial facilities, 100 minutes is a lot of time. That’s the average period it takes to process available global data to make weather predictions, so Maxar Technologies Inc. embarked on a project to speed that up. Working …

Nutanix extends Clusters offering to include AWS for hybrid-cloud management

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

When it comes to managing workloads and applications in a hybrid-cloud world, Nutanix Inc. has borrowed a slogan popularized by one well-known athletic brand: Just do it. Nutanix announced an extension of its Clusters scale-out hyperconverged storage offering that will now be …

As the pandemic hastens a cyberpunk future, hackers put democracy at risk

SECURITY By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

One year after 20,000 cybersecurity professionals gathered in Las Vegas for Black Hat USA, no one traveled to the city this time, convention center hallways were dark and the world felt more perilous than ever before. Reflecting on a dystopian future described in …

Critical visibility and remediation tools a must-have for managing complex networks

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

With the shift by higher education to online learning during the global pandemic, an attack by malicious hackers has become a real risk. But what if one attack against a university came from another school? This unusual situation was discovered recently by …

Census Bureau partners with T-Rex Solutions to count US population during COVID-19

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

In the information-technology world, there are plenty of projects with daily, weekly or even monthly deadlines. There are not many where the end product must be designed and executed once every 10 years. Yet, that is exactly what is required for the …

After FBI moves to AWS GovCloud, user complaints about system performance disappear

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

Over 6,500 government agencies now use cloud solutions provided by Amazon Web Services Inc., and one of the users of AWS GovCloud is the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The law enforcement agency had been saddled with an aging information-technology infrastructure, and the FBI’s …

AWS serverless architecture drives SBA’s Lender Gateway for PPP loans

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

When it became apparent that U.S. firms would need financial help during the pandemic, Congress approved $349 billion in emergency small-business funding for loans under the Paycheck Protection Program. It fell to the Small Business Association to administer those loans, and the …

Tyler Technologies’ Virtual Court enables online justice in Texas community

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

Please sign-in to your video chat-enabled, cloud-based virtual platform. The Municipal Court of the City of Alvin, Texas, is now in session. While this might sound like a scenario from a work of science fiction, it is actually happening for defendants with …

Hands-on AWS learning proves to be an award-winner for NorthBay Solutions and Pitt

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

Learn by doing. That’s the underlying philosophy behind a rapid use-case prototyping training model designed by NorthBay Solutions LLC, an Amazon Web Services Public Sector partner. NorthBay’s AWS-trained staff works side-by-side in virtual simultaneous rooms to help information technology customers quickly come up …

University turns to eLumin and AWS for remote learning after sudden closing of labs

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON6 YEARS AGO

When COVID-19 began shutting down schools across the country earlier this year, the University of Maryland Baltimore County had a big problem on its hands. There were many of its 14,000 students who could no longer attend learning sessions in on-campus physical …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

Maxar develops high-performance computing solution to accelerate weather forecasting

Nutanix extends Clusters offering to include AWS for hybrid-cloud management

Critical visibility and remediation tools a must-have for managing complex networks

AWS serverless architecture drives SBA’s Lender Gateway for PPP loans

Tyler Technologies’ Virtual Court enables online justice in Texas community

Hands-on AWS learning proves to be an award-winner for NorthBay Solutions and Pitt

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