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

Hortonworks and IBM make a bid for simplicity

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

With the announcement this week of its cloud-based DataPlane Service, Hortonworks Inc. is now firmly seated on the simplicity bandwagon. The enterprise-scale offering is designed to provide an easier way for organizations to govern and analyze data, no matter where it may …

Pricing, platform positioning keys to Splunk’s market expansion strategy

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Splunk Inc. made plenty of announcements this week, with a particular focus on adding machine learning, scale and speed for data analytics. But rumblings about the high cost of Splunk’s products and services, coupled with questions about whether the company was positioning …

The hackers are winning, and automation may be the only way to beat them

INFRA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Hackers are now designing attacks that move at machine speed, yet security defenses are only as good as the humans who monitor them to repel breaches. Care to wager on who’s going to come out ahead? The cybersecurity arms race has reached …

Moving everything to cloud? It still needs management

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

When dcVAST Inc. was founded in 1989, the on-premises data center was king. There was no Amazon.com Inc., no Google LLC and a cloud was something that provided relief from the sun on a hot summer day. Fast forward to 2017, and …

In the multicloud world, IT also means ‘infrastructure’ technology

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

If there’s a challenge in today’s data management universe, it’s finding a technology solution that can work effectively across multiple clouds, such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure. This is becoming more important as enterprise information technology expands to …

From GDPR to workplace diversity: Inclusive approach, not scare tactics, works best, says Veritas

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Scary sells. That’s often the approach used by many companies when customers have to deal with new laws or regulations where the penalty for non-compliance could be significant. And there may be nothing scarier right now in the data governance arena than …

Data storage evolves to focus on access, management and insights

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

It was not that long ago when information technology systems managers had a quandary: where to store all the corporate data they possessed without breaking departmental budgets for the year. Today, where to store information is no longer the issue, as costs …

GDPR is coming: Is it a costly burden or marketing opportunity?

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The financial penalties for non-compliance are significant. The requirement to know where all data is kept and be able to delete it when directed is non-negotiable. And supervisory authorities in Europe can initiate audits and suspend data transfers any time. The realities …

This little Dell company aims to change software coding forever

APPS By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

When Dell Inc. sold off its software division in 2016 prior to the merger with EMC Corp., the only company it kept was a small integration and data management company called Boomi Inc. Last March, the renamed Dell Boomi acquired an even smaller …

No more need for ‘dumb’ storage or costly analytics, says Veritas exec

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Millions of data points from smartwatches and fitness trackers generate tremendous amounts of digital records every second, and most of this information goes right into object storage servers, where it’s organized more flexibly than traditional hierarchal methods. Bundled along with metadata and a unique identifier, …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

Hortonworks and IBM make a bid for simplicity

Pricing, platform positioning keys to Splunk’s market expansion strategy

Data storage evolves to focus on access, management and insights

No more need for ‘dumb’ storage or costly analytics, says Veritas exec

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