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

VMware prepares vSAN channel strategy for the server refresh wave

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The installation of new servers and ancillary hardware usually follows a five-year cycle in many enterprise data centers, although there is growing evidence that rapid change in information technology structures are causing cycle times to accelerate. VMware Inc. believes that 60 percent of …

Edge computing is the future, but security will be a challenge

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc.’s continued rise in popularity is testimony to customers’ desire for a flexible, virtualized system that can facilitate a common data structure, from the edge to the data center, from private clouds to public clouds. But customers also need their systems …

The FCC is happy to talk about all things digital. Net neutrality? Don’t ask.

INFRA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Over the course of two full days of appearances in San Francisco this week, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and three of his fellow commissioners covered a lot of ground, including 5G network deployment, small cell installation, broadcast spectrum auctions, emergency response, …

Hyperledger Project strives to reboot thorny problems of the world

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

What if the cost of shipping a container halfway across the world could be reduced by 50 percent? Or patient records could be available immediately in any medical facility around the globe? Or every shipment of food could be tracked mile by mile …

Open Container Initiative reaches ‘great milestone,’ says Red Hat chief technologist

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

After two years of work, the Open Container Initiative launched Version 1.0 for container runtime and image specifications in July. OCI’s foundation, formed by a number of container industry leaders, was tasked with the mission to create specifications that would support container portability across …

Cloud control, IoT solutions part of Hitachi Data Systems’ enterprise plan

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Hitachi Data Systems Corp. started with a focus on hardware solutions and supporting the infrastructure. But more recently the wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. has significantly increased its software portfolio to meet the data-driven needs of customers. As new releases from VMware Inc. …

Rackspace applies ‘fanatical’ service to hosted private cloud

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

After more than 10 years of partnership with VMware Inc., Rackspace Inc. now runs one of the largest vSphere (cloud computing virtualization platform) footprints in the world. So when the managed service provider recently announced that its Rackspace Private Cloud was available …

IBM hints at smarter storage, but the conversation is all about data

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp.’s recent announcement of Spectrum Protect Plus, protection software for cloud, data center or virtualized platforms, is more about data than it is about simplifying storage management. And the company is not shy about making sure its customers know that. “The …

Simpler, better, cheaper: Can IT managers have all three?

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Presented with the three options of simpler, cheaper or better, and only two can be selected, which makes the most sense? Ask any information technology manager who is trying to decide the best model among a bewildering array of storage choices for …

The data center’s backbone: VMware’s strategy comes into focus

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

During what was largely viewed as a cattle stampede to the public cloud, enterprise information technology managers suddenly came to the realization that they might be leaving something important behind: their data. This sudden moment of clarity changed the “public cloud or …

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