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

Amberdata focused on building ‘Google for the blockchain’

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

A Deloitte report released last year found that nearly 40 percent of senior executives surveyed had little or no knowledge about the blockchain. Yet, the decentralized general ledger platform, originally built 10 years ago for tracking cryptocurrency exchanges, continues to attract enterprise interest …

The e-commerce rocket ship takes off at Magento Imagine 2018

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

With a platform for open commerce innovation, Magento Inc. has seen an increasing number of businesses embrace its technology, to the point where it now handles more than $155 billion in gross merchandise volume annually. The world of online retail is evolving …

Airmen boldly turn to ‘Star Trek’ for inspiration in custom-built Air Force software project

APPS By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

The United States Air Force calls its coding initiative the Pathfinder Project, but the airmen participating in a new approach for the delivery of combat applications preferred to name their work after a hyperspace route used by renegade freighter captains in the …

Cybersecurity fatigue sets in while investors look for a shot of adrenaline

APPS By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

In the fast-moving world of cybersecurity, the operative word today is fatigue. Information technology organizations have alert fatigue from having to deal with every possible minute-by-minute hint of a data breach or ransomware attack. Enterprise security executives are worn out from endless …

Cyber Threat Alliance blows out one candle on its celebratory cake

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

With tens of thousands of cybersecurity professionals attending the RSA Conference in San Francisco, California, this month, the chances were good that a few of them celebrated birthdays. But it’s unlikely that any of them celebrated a birthday as recent as Michael …

IBM continues to fine-tune DSX in concert with Hortonworks

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Nearly one year ago, IBM Corp. announced plans to combine its data science platform with Hortonworks Inc.’s software for data management. What IBM brought to the partnership was its Data Science Experience, or DSX, solution, designed to let developers create analytics models and …

Hortonworks enlists Apache Atlas to follow the trail of data breadcrumbs for GDPR

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

With the deadline for compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation barely a month away, companies are looking for tools to track and identify any and all information on European citizens that could be contained in corporate databases. The law provides European …

Hortonworks co-founder outlines edge strategy and standards initiative for big data

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

In February, Hortonworks Inc. announced general availability of DataFlow 3.1, the company’s data-in-motion platform for edge and streaming analytics. The release provided further evidence that Hortonworks intends to include edge computing in its competitive strategy for the Apache Hadoop market. “That certainly …

Hortonworks’ Data Steward Studio release is both timely and reassuring

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Tuesday’s release of a new service from Hortonworks Inc. for the security and governance of data assets — Data Steward Studio — was a positive addition for the enterprise computing community as the clock ticks toward the deadline for General Data Protection …

Barracuda Networks puts teeth into public cloud firewall protection

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

When Tim Jefferson (pictured) was the head of security and networking business development for Amazon Web Services Inc., he gained insight into the friction that enterprise customers experienced when they moved data center security architectures into the public cloud. Inevitably, the pain …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

Amberdata focused on building ‘Google for the blockchain’

Cyber Threat Alliance blows out one candle on its celebratory cake

IBM continues to fine-tune DSX in concert with Hortonworks

Hortonworks co-founder outlines edge strategy and standards initiative for big data

Barracuda Networks puts teeth into public cloud firewall protection

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