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

How machines can save us from social media suicide

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

It’s every chief financial officer’s worst nightmare come true. On the night of April 28, 2015, an early and unintended release of Twitter’s disappointing earnings results erased $8 billion in the company’s value over the course of just a few hours. The …

It’s time for multifactor authentication everywhere, says Centrify executive

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

In an interesting move by Sony that will be closely watched by the security industry, the Japanese technology giant recently filed a patent application that combines multifactor authentication with the blockchain’s extra-secure digital ledger. The concept, as outlined in the filing, is …

Cybersecurity begins and ends with the trusted identity

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

There are nearly two billion usernames and passwords available for sale in the black market, according to a recent joint study carried out by Google LLC and the University of California. A significant percentage of those login credentials can be used to directly access Google …

Big data analytics boost Vivint’s smart home IQ

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Cars, personal assistants and smartphones are starting to learn user habits and make decisions automatically. Can the home be far behind? Vivint Inc., the provider of smart home security systems over the past 18 years, has embarked on a technology approach that …

Akbank speeds up analytics as Turkish population grows younger

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Although it is one of Turkey’s largest financial institutions with $84 billion in assets, Akbank T.A.Ş.’ye still faces a number of challenges adopting to the digital world. Chief among these is finding a way to grow its customer base by increasing retention …

Seldom-used metadata could be next gold mine, says NetApp CTO

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

In 2006, an online retailer came up with an idea to let users rent unused capacity on the company’s virtual computers. Eleven years later, Amazon Web Services Inc. is generating $16 billion in annual revenue. In 2008, three starving students thought that …

IBM Watson needs a makeover, and other predictions in cloud, AI and IoT for 2018

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

If there is a single theme surrounding key trends and developments in the digital world over the past year, it is speed. Technology today is like a heavily loaded freight train barreling down the innovation mountain without even the slightest notion of …

Developers and data center operators welcome Intel’s latest FPGA moves

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Intel’s recently unveiled plans to deploy customized field programmable gate array-based acceleration of storage and computing workloads are welcome news for developers who are pushing the data center boundaries. Fields such as genomics and finance are using increasingly complex data-intensive applications, and the …

Data to become self-aware, customized and huge, predicts NetApp CTO

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Nothing in the technology world can ever be guaranteed, but industry trends and customer preferences reveal a roadmap for where the enterprise computing car is headed. And the driver of that car will be data, the information that every business wants to …

GDPR could force draining of the data lake

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Until now, the general principle surrounding the gathering of data is that too much is never enough. But with the strict General Data Protection Regulation going into effect next May for companies with operations in Europe or any company that holds data on …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

It’s time for multifactor authentication everywhere, says Centrify executive

Cybersecurity begins and ends with the trusted identity

Big data analytics boost Vivint’s smart home IQ

Akbank speeds up analytics as Turkish population grows younger

Developers and data center operators welcome Intel’s latest FPGA moves

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