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.

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Trade secrets get in the way of cybersecurity innovation, say analysts

INFRA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

When computers and nuclear equipment were attacked at a facility in Iran by the infamous Stuxnet worm in 2010, security researchers were amazed at the malware’s ability to bypass checks that required valid digital signatures. These software signatures are important because they …

The ‘Troublemakers’ who built Silicon Valley: a conversation with author Leslie Berlin

CUBE EVENT COVERAGE By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Silicon Valley lore often focuses on the founders of major companies who later went on to become household names worldwide. Think Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak at Apple Computer Inc., Larry Ellison at Oracle Corp., or Bill Hewlett and David Packard at …

Plenty of oxygen in the market for multiple cloud providers, says Datos IO CEO

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

If the race for dominance in the cloud service provider market was a marathon road race, the current leaders of the running pack would be Amazon Web Services Inc. with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform striving to catch up. But industry …

After transforming a college, Pentaho outlines the metadata future

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The vocabulary required to manage the flow of enterprise data is beginning to change again. It started with bytes and worked its way up the scale through kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes. Then it progressed to terabytes and petabytes. Now, when top executives …

Honeycomb opens a view into serverless beehive

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

There may be nothing more terrifying in the enterprise computing world than being unable to look inside a system and see what’s happening. Blind faith is a bad idea and a sure ticket to disaster. In the serverless computing world, apps are …

Thriving online cloud training company started from a need for speed

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

When Sam Kroonenburg (pictured) and his brother were looking to build an online school that would teach cloud computing, there were platforms for hosting teaching content, but they took a hefty cut out of what could well be meager profits. So Kroonenburg …

Wanted: data evangelist who tells meaningful stories that make lots of money

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

In the 1980s, a popular TV personality named Warner Wolf made a national name for himself during nightly sportscasts by referencing the outcome of a game and then quickly declaring “let’s go to the videotape” to show the audience proof of what …

At Alibaba’s Museum of Inspiration, the past prompts discussion of the future

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

In the relatively short space of 18 years, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has grown from 18 people led by former English teacher Jack Ma to an ecommerce powerhouse with more than 50,000 employees and annual revenue of $23 billion. But it was …

Alibaba’s plans: Expand in Silicon Valley, embrace developers

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

When Alibaba Group Holding Ltd announced this month that it would commit $15 billion to increase its research and development initiatives between now and 2020, one of the sidebars to that news was the expansion of its presence in the U.S., specifically Silicon Valley. With …

Alibaba builds brains to unleash data technology

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Much as a school views its educational mission from the perspective of shaping young minds, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. sees its role in the computing universe as that of building functioning, thinking machines. Alibaba Cloud has developed a set of machine learning-fueled …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

Trade secrets get in the way of cybersecurity innovation, say analysts

The ‘Troublemakers’ who built Silicon Valley: a conversation with author Leslie Berlin

Plenty of oxygen in the market for multiple cloud providers, says Datos IO CEO

After transforming a college, Pentaho outlines the metadata future

Wanted: data evangelist who tells meaningful stories that make lots of money

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