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

Kubernetes can handle the gnarly plumbing, but can it handle the gnarly problems too?

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

If 2018 confirmed the position of Kubernetes at the center of the cloud-native computing universe, then 2019 could well be the platform’s ultimate stress test. The widespread adoption of the container orchestration tool in the enterprise has helped pave the way for …

As cloud-native matures, CNCF sees mainstream adoption of open source

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Every time Lyft riders order a car and step into the vehicle, they’re entering much more than a mass of metal on four wheels. They’re being propelled by a massive microservices-oriented computerized infrastructure fueled by the Kubernetes open-source container orchestration platform and other key open-source …

The co-evolution of Kubernetes and Heptio founder Joe Beda

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Tracking technology’s evolution sometimes requires looking less at the products created and more at the people behind them. In examining the Kubernetes container management platform and its meteoric rise inside the complex world of cloud computing, it’s instructive to follow the footprints of two …

Czech competitors watch as Moneta Money Bank moves to public cloud

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

When Moneta Money Bank made the decision earlier this year to move approximately 20 application workloads to the public cloud, it caught the attention of other financial institutions within Czechoslovakia. After all, wasn’t there risk, both technological and regulatory, in moving key …

Original developers assess past, present and future of Kubernetes

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Before Kubernetes there was Borg, a system management tool created by Google engineers to run thousands of jobs from applications across thousands of machines within the search giant. The system got its start around 2003 as Google was beginning to scale up, …

Service meshes and serverless are just a slice of what Kubernetes enables

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

After two days of presentations and dialogue with attendees at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Seattle this week, observers have seen several key themes emerge, but prime among them is the emergence of container orchestration technology Kubernetes as a central point of activity …

Mileage rewards program gets boost from blockchain solution for frequent flyers

BLOCKCHAIN By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

It’s an all-too-often aggravation for participants in airline frequent flyer programs. Travel, accumulate miles, and then wait weeks to see them posted to a loyalty rewards account. In an effort to enhance the overall experience of its customers, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. …

Life in the fast lane: TransCore turns to Datrium for speed and backup in toll tag business

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

It’s hard to envision a technology that has endured for more than 80 years. Yet, when TransCore LP installed radio communications in 1939 on the country’s first toll road in Pennsylvania, it sparked an engineering solution that has grown exponentially as the …

AWS brings ease-of-use and transaction tracking to blockchain with two new services

BLOCKCHAIN By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

One year ago at re:Invent, Amazon Web Services Inc. executives appeared to be in no major rush to roll out new products for developers in the blockchain space. That changed in a hurry last month as AWS introduced two new services designed to …

Rise of managed services is filling in the Kubernetes gaps

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

In an appearance at KubeCon one year ago, Kelsey Hightower, staff developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform, spoke about how the Kubernetes container orchestration system was setting the stage for technology partners. Today, the stage is set, the audience is in the …

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