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

Google program for non-profits aids field of precision medicine

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Although Google Cloud officially launched a program for non-profit groups, called Data Solutions for Change, at the just-concluded Next conference in San Francisco, that doesn’t mean eligible organizations need to wait for results. Several groups are already up and running in the …

Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene plays the long game, but will it be enough?

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

In the race for enterprise cloud market share, where Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure currently dominate, Google Cloud’s strategy has resembled slow and steady, with a methodical approach that has involved incubating sophisticated engineering-centric products internally first and then …

Google courts ‘alpha techies’ in long-game cloud strategy

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

On day two of Google’s Cloud Next gathering in San Francisco, attendees heard presentations which included some large big data enterprise names like Chevron, Mastercard and Twitter. Could this be a sign that Google LLC is turning the corner in gaining large-scale enterprise …

Google Cloud moves into medicine with NIH partnership

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

As a digital tsunami engulfs the medical profession, Google is stepping in with life preservers. The National Institutes of Health, the largest public funder of biomedical research, announced Tuesday that it would join with Google Cloud on an initiative to broaden access to …

Marriage of silicon and software: Arrcus targets networking industry for disruption

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

The emergence of Arrcus Inc. from stealth mode and the release of its first product, ArcOS, represents an opening salvo in what could become major disruption in the networking world. The multi-billion networking industry has been dominated by a small yet powerful number …

AWS machine learning tools aiming to be anything but vanilla

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

If Amazon Web Services Inc. really wants to make machine learning services as ubiquitous as vanilla ice cream, its approach so far is turning it into something quite different. It’s more like Vietnamese coffee with frosted almonds and peanut butter curry, a flavor that can actually …

As regulatory thunderclouds gather, blockchain innovators press on with innovations

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

It’s no surprise that the blockchain community is moving rapidly with new innovations on an almost weekly basis. What’s surprising is that U.S. regulators have so far declined to step in, while other countries move boldly ahead with their own blockchain initiatives. …

Three reasons Google lags in the cloud – and four ways it can step on the gas

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

More than 90 percent of the world’s searches are driven by Google LLC’s cloud infrastructure. The company rakes in $32 billion of search advertising revenue for the U.S. market, which is nearly $30 billion more than its closest competitor. What’s more, it’s probably …

AWS boosts Snowball Edge functionality, makes it more secure

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. has announced new features which increase the computing tasks that can be performed with the Snowball Edge appliance for data migration between connected devices, and also boost the level of security. Specifically, a local version of AWS’ web-scale configuration tool Elastic …

Atlas and Stitch propel MongoDB into the running of mission-critical apps

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

The enterprise world has online advertising to thank for MongoDB Inc. The open-source database platform provider got its start in 2007 when the team behind DoubleClick grew frustrated with the woeful ability of databases to serve 400,000 ads per second. MongoDB’s founders built …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

Google program for non-profits aids field of precision medicine

Marriage of silicon and software: Arrcus targets networking industry for disruption

As regulatory thunderclouds gather, blockchain innovators press on with innovations

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