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

This data platform is cloud-scale, replicated and live

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

In the terminology of enterprise computing, there are plenty of ways to describe data. There’s hot data that is accessed via fast storage, cold data obtained through slower storage, and real-time data, generally viewed as information delivered immediately after collection. Now WANdisco …

Del Monte’s migration to AWS went unnoticed by some of its own users

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

When Del Monte Foods Inc. began to consider migrating its entire information technology operation to the cloud on Amazon Web Services Inc., it was looking at a time frame of at least seven months to make the move. By the time Del …

Amazon adds cloud services and customers, but the real story is machine learning

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Before the 9,000 attendees at the AWS Summit in San Francisco could find their seats at the conference’s morning keynote session today, Amazon Web Services Inc. had already announced the addition of image publishing service Shutterfly Inc. and vehicle services firm Cox Automotive …

AWS Summit keynote spotlights machine learning upgrades amidst cloud wars

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. kicked off its one-day summit in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday with keynote presentations that covered a number of cloud services, but the company’s focus was clearly on SageMaker, designed to create and deploy machine learning algorithms. AWS …

Kubernetes, Greenplum and GemFire fuel Pivotal Software’s enterprise strategy

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

When Pivotal Software Inc. partnered with Google and VMware Inc. in 2017 to create a managed Kubernetes offering called Pivotal Container Service, or PKS, it was only a matter of time before the initial beta release progressed to general availability. That time …

As cloud technologies evolve, Informatica weathers storm of change

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

During one social event at a data conference in San Jose, California, last month, Murthy Mathiprakasam (pictured) pulled up a chair and began to chat with the information technology executive of a large insurance company, an Informatica Corp. customer. The IT executive …

AI-ready infrastructure accelerates data science at scale

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

In a move to simplify artificial intelligence deployment within enterprise computing infrastructures, Pure Storage Inc. has teamed up with hardware maker Nvidia Corp. Using four Nvidia DGX-1 supercomputers, Pure adds its FlashBlade array to create AIRI, the latest tool for the AI-ready infrastructure. …

Building predictive data analytics models is now a team sport

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

Running a data analytics division inside a large company today is like being the head coach at a football all-star game. Everyone on the field has a different-looking helmet, but they still need to work together as a team. At any given …

China’s businesses and cities benefiting from this big data platform

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

In 2011, Yuanhao Sun (pictured) was part of the Intel team that released the first enterprise Apache Hadoop in China. Seven years later, he is leading a team at Transwarp Technology Inc. that built a distributed in-memory analysis engine and real-time, large-scale …

The era of big data moves into the realm of action and ethics

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON8 YEARS AGO

With big data and its consequences very much in the news this year, the conversation around the handling of information streams is turning toward issues such as privacy and bias. The big data era has moved from the technical requirements, such as ingestion …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

This data platform is cloud-scale, replicated and live

Del Monte’s migration to AWS went unnoticed by some of its own users

AWS Summit keynote spotlights machine learning upgrades amidst cloud wars

AI-ready infrastructure accelerates data science at scale

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