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

Despair, happiness and inflated expectations in the new world of ‘serverless’ computing

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

French fries didn’t originate in France, Bombay duck is a fish, and catgut actually comes from sheep. To the list of life’s misnomers can be added serverless computing, because it still requires hardware to run. But that doesn’t diminish the fact that …

Hot storage technology gets a cool down from Western Digital

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

When it comes to making major progress in technology innovation, one of the limiting factors has been heat. Rapid advances in the microprocessor industry have fueled remarkable growth, yet chip makers constantly grapple with the demands of energy released at ridiculous speeds …

Fifty years old and still humming: Like the mainframe, Syncsort won’t quit

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

What are the oldest technology companies still operating today? Before Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Oracle and Microsoft there was IBM, AT&T and Hewlett-Packard. General Electric goes all the way back to Thomas Edison in 1892. These are all household names to be …

Is content still king? NetApp’s head of strategy challenges conventional wisdom

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The belief that “content is king” may have been codified into the collective consciousness in 1996 when none other than Microsoft Corp.’s Bill Gates wrote an essay by the same name. At the time, Gates believed that anything appearing on the internet …

Big data stretch: Dell EMC goes elastic in new partnership

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Late last month Dell EMC announced the Elastic Data Platform, designed to augment big data deployments with scalability and stronger controls around user access. The news was jointly released not just by Dell EMC, but through two of its key partners: BlueData …

InData predicts growing demand for computer vision in data science world

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Data science has made rapid advances in automated understanding of spoken or written text. It’s now possible to take mountains of data from customer feedback, for example, and gain high-level insight into whether a business might soon experience a retention problem. But …

BMC Software takes a shift left to entice developers

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

In the technology world these days, when someone says that it’s time to shift left, they usually aren’t talking about lining up their friends for a selfie shot. Instead, shift left is an approach that places development tasks, such as monitoring, testing …

GlaxoSmithKline leverages AtScale to keep big data big

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

It’s like celebrating a birthday with a huge, nicely decorated cake, but the only view of it is one lonely slice. That’s the feeling that many companies have when trying to visualize and use large data sets in the enterprise. But one …

IBM is so confident in PowerAI, it now comes with a guarantee

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

PowerAI, announced last year by IBM Corp., is geared for companies who might appreciate all that Watson (IBM’s cognitive computing and artificial intelligence supercomputer) has to offer. But they still desire a software toolkit that allows them to build an impressive deep …

IT complexity, lock-in create unease in the enterprise

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

When executives from the data management and storage company NetApp Inc. meet with customers, some common themes usually emerge. Companies are trying to modernize existing infrastructure, looking to build the next-generation data center, or they want to harness the power of the …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

Hot storage technology gets a cool down from Western Digital

Fifty years old and still humming: Like the mainframe, Syncsort won’t quit

Big data stretch: Dell EMC goes elastic in new partnership

InData predicts growing demand for computer vision in data science world

BMC Software takes a shift left to entice developers

GlaxoSmithKline leverages AtScale to keep big data big

IBM is so confident in PowerAI, it now comes with a guarantee

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