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

Bloomberg’s gamble on Kubernetes turned IT organization into managed-services provider

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

When a company’s technology is used by the White House, the Vatican, the Federal Reserve, and the Bank of England, the computing infrastructure behind it had better work. This is the challenge faced every day by Bloomberg LP, the financial, software, data …

Focus for Kubernetes in 2020 will be on simplification and company contributions

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

When Dan Kohn, executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, declared this year that Kubernetes had “crossed the chasm,” he had the data to back it up. According to the CNCF’s “Project Journey Report,” 1,704 companies have participated in solutions for …

Portworx and Ford turn to advanced solutions for driving stateful use of Kubernetes

APPS By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

When it comes to stateful versus stateless applications, the role of Kubernetes is changing. As a container storage company, Portworx Inc. has found itself in a position to observe the evolution of Kubernetes and its use in the enterprise, because the company …

Kubernetes helps companies find ways to let new things work the old way

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

It has been a little under six years since the container orchestration tool Kubernetes was initially released. While that may not seem like a long time to some, it’s long enough for the technology to work itself into the mainstream of enterprise …

Salesforce finds its voice: Acquisitions and new tools add fuel to AI fire at Dreamforce

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

When the weeklong agenda at a tech conference includes a former president of the United States, the chief executive officer of Apple Inc. and a Grammy award-winning artist performing her hit song “Girl On Fire,” that’s heavy celebrity lifting. Yet the real …

Making lawyers happy: How Immuta leverages intelligence agency experience to govern data

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

Among members of the U.S. intelligence community, the sensitive data they handle could literally mean the difference between life or death for thousands of people. That may explain why a small startup called Immuta Inc. with 70 employees and $20 million in …

Reflections on AI: Are humans up to the task of controlling what they’ve built?

AI By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

Thanks to artificial intelligence and facial-recognition technology, mirrors in retail stores are now making judgments about people reflected in the glass. Is that progress or a descent into digital apocalypse? This was a question recently pondered by Bob Friday (pictured, left), vice …

The new trust factor: Cohesity technologist sees big picture in partnership with Microsoft

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

If there is a glue that binds two companies seeking to make advances in the hybrid computing space together, it is trust. Customers must trust the companies have the right solutions to solve complex issues that are part of the hybrid world …

Vlocity powers customer relationships with the ‘Big Four’ technologies of digital transformation

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

As a provider of industry-specific cloud and mobile software, Vlocity Inc. has learned what drives customer interest in today’s fast-paced digital world. Social media, cloud, mobile and analytics have emerged as the “Big Four” of digital transformation, according to Rip Gerber (pictured), chief marketing …

Death, technology and regulatory uncertainty keep self-driving cars on the fringe

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

While the world is still waiting for flying cars, it’s proving just as hard to advance the cause of innovative vehicles with wheels still firmly planted on the ground. For a field that looked highly promising only a few years ago, autonomous …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

Reflections on AI: Are humans up to the task of controlling what they’ve built?

Vlocity powers customer relationships with the ‘Big Four’ technologies of digital transformation

Death, technology and regulatory uncertainty keep self-driving cars on the fringe

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