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

Red Hat expands Ansible’s enterprise automation portfolio with new releases

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Red Hat Inc. introduced several new tools for its Ansible automation platform on Thursday that are designed to further the cause for automating huge enterprise information technology operations. Ansible bills itself as a simple “IT automation engine” that automates cloud provisioning, software …

Getting out of hock: Dell EMC tailors solutions for absorbing the ‘tech debt’

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

With a wide range of technologies for the enterprise, Dell EMC is seeking to meet customer needs across the spectrum, from a basic “do-it-yourself” hardware infrastructure to the fully integrated, pre-configured VxRail hyperconverged appliance. The company’s intent is to help manage transitions …

Is Vscale a roadmap to the data center of the future?

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The challenge many data center managers face today is how to modernize without breaking the budget. Recognizing that its customers have responded favorably to turnkey solutions at the systems level, using converged infrastructure, or CI, products — such as VxBlock — Dell …

Hyperconverged infrastructure pushes networking boundaries as it goes prime time

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

If the hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, was a TV show, it would be airing at 8 p.m. on a Saturday night in all of the big markets, the prime viewing hour. The technology that consolidates compute, storage and networking into one system …

What’s behind this new storage solution for the hyperconverged world?

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Sometimes it’s really easy to have too much of good thing. In a hyperconverged, scaled-out backup system, there can be numerous motherboards, multiple persistence drives and hardware duplicates as far as the eye can see. That’s why Brian Biles (pictured), co-founder and …

Dell EMC presses ‘easy button’ with enterprise hybrid and Pivotal cloud news

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

An International Data Corp. research has tabbed the hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, market as the fastest-growing converged systems segment for the first quarter this year. Dell EMC and VMware Inc. are clearly intent of taking full advantage of that growth as evidenced …

Nutanix aims to eliminate infrastructure management complexity

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

When Nutanix Inc. released Acropolis, its turnkey solution for managing the hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, two years ago, the promotional messaging around the technology included the word “simplicity” in nearly every other sentence. Fast forward to 2017, and the message is still the …

Cyberattacks outpacing security industry’s growth, says Centrify CEO

APPS By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Cybersecurity has become an $80 billion industry, growing at 10 percent per year. But despite the hefty amount of investment in security tools and products, the number of attacks is outpacing the spend rate — and this has many industry leaders and …

DNS gets makeover to bolster security

EMERGING TECH By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

There are a lot of things the internet can do without, but the domain name system, or DNS, isn’t one of them. Without a directory of domain names that can be translated into recognizable addresses, the internet simply would not work. And …

Beyond the hype: IBM counters Watson concerns with integrated machine learning release

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

After more than a year of testing, IBM Corp. recently opened its Watson Machine Learning service to the general public. In making new machine learning tools available to developers and data scientists, IBM is clearly seeking to counter concerns expressed by industry …

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Cyberattacks outpacing security industry’s growth, says Centrify CEO

DNS gets makeover to bolster security

Beyond the hype: IBM counters Watson concerns with integrated machine learning release

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