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

Zscaler transforms IT security from “castle and moat” to direct access via the cloud

SECURITY By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

Zscaler Inc. has an interesting message for security professionals: Don’t bother with securing the network. Worry instead about securing user access to the right applications wherever the data resides. The company’s flagship services deliver fast, secure connections between user and application regardless …

As Ethereum reinvents itself, large enterprises start to get on board

BLOCKCHAIN By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

Investors are pouring a lot of money flow into bitcoin, but participants in the cryptocurrency market may be missing the real story: Ethereum is about to reinvent itself, and the impact could have far-reaching consequences throughout the enterprise world. Released in 2015, …

Nurturing innovation: How AWS’ Educate program aims to close the cloud skills gap

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

There are at least 50,000 professional skills in the world, according to recent data provided by LinkedIn, and the number one hard skill that companies need most in 2019 is cloud computing. That single fact should send students rushing to fill classes …

On 10-year anniversary of its acquisition, Data Domain has adapted to new realities of cloud

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

During the economic recession of 2008 and 2009, brought on by a collapse of the U.S. real estate market, business mergers and acquisitions were few and far between. Uncertainty in the stock market left what few offers there were as cash-only deals, a …

NetScout tracks down tough problems in complex unified communications networks

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

When voice, video, instant messaging, and video conferencing come together on a converged Internet Protocol network, the complexity meter rises fast. And when there’s a problem with even one of these services, finding and fixing it can quickly become a major challenge. …

Program or die: Application programming interfaces are transforming business

APPS By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

Application programming interfaces or APIs are fast becoming like air and water. Businesses need them to survive. That basic point was driven home recently for Brian Pagano, senior director of Catalysts at Axway Inc., which provides cloud integration and API and identity …

IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat has IT executives’ attention, but attitude is ‘wait and see’

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

Nine days into the third quarter of 2019, IBM Corp. closed its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat Inc. Now that Red Hat is officially part of the IBM fold, what are the expectations of both companies by customers as the deal …

NetApp’s Kubernetes solution furthers the cause of hybrid computing

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

NetApp Inc.’s latest product moves illustrate the realization that, when it comes to meeting customer needs in a hybrid world, it’s all about choice. The storage solutions company recently announced new cloud-based services that offer customers choice of on-premises or cloud infrastructure. …

DoorDash leverages data in the cloud as it ushers in new era for food delivery

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

To determine whether a food delivery business has value, look at the data it collects. And DoorDash Inc. has data. Order behavior by customers of the food delivery service, which now serves diners in 4,000 cities across the U.S. and Canada from …

Financial services orgs value agility over cost in the cloud, says AWS

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON7 YEARS AGO

If there is any vertical that understands the meaning of cost to a business, it’s the financial services industry. Yet, when evaluating the cost impact of running information technology in the cloud versus through a private data center, there are other factors …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

As Ethereum reinvents itself, large enterprises start to get on board

Nurturing innovation: How AWS’ Educate program aims to close the cloud skills gap

On 10-year anniversary of its acquisition, Data Domain has adapted to new realities of cloud

NetScout tracks down tough problems in complex unified communications networks

IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat has IT executives’ attention, but attitude is ‘wait and see’

NetApp’s Kubernetes solution furthers the cause of hybrid computing

DoorDash leverages data in the cloud as it ushers in new era for food delivery

Financial services orgs value agility over cost in the cloud, says AWS

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