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

Everyone into the cloud? Maybe not, says CTO

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

It might be time to tap the brakes on the common belief that there’s a wholesale mad dash to the cloud. Organizations are beginning to sound more interested in a combined on-premises and off-premises enterprise solution, according to Rick Gouin (pictured, right), chief …

Faculty and students at Boston University dive into the cloud

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Information technology managers at colleges and universities across the country often have to walk a fine line between long-tenured faculty who are reluctant to adopt new technologies and students who started using computers before they could even walk. Meeting the expectations of …

Oracle’s Mark Hurd: Enterprise clouds are the safe security bet, and might even save CEOs’ jobs

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Enterprise clouds are a whole lot more secure than the Internet they depend on, a reality that will become more obvious with the coming Internet of Things, says Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Mark Hurd. Hurd made the case for enterprise clouds, no …

IT availability gap hinders innovation and costs companies, says analyst

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The difference between user demand and what information technology can deliver in the enterprise is holding back innovation, based on a 2017 study commissioned by Veeam Software Inc. and produced by the Enterprise Strategy Group Inc. The results, drawn from a survey …

Hyperconverged infrastructure adoption on the rise, says tech company COO

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The newly hired chief operating officer of Winslow Technology Group LLC, a provider of information technology solutions and consulting services, is in a position to hear from IT customers about what excites them. And he’s already heard enough to know that hyperconverged infrastructure is capturing …

Tape storage is alive and well, says Quantum datacenter product director

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

In the virtualized data center environment, there is seemingly no place for tape storage. But following Veeam Software Inc.’s “3-2-1 rule,” with three copies of data on two different kinds of media plus one stored offsite, Quantum has resurrected tape storage as …

Escape from the ‘Jurassic petting zoo’: Science firm overcomes aging IT

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Many companies would probably admit they have not spent enough on information technology system upgrades. Refresh budgets often do not survive when confronted with the realities of cost management in today’s competitive business environment. Yet when one scientific research firm realized it …

A Swiss success story in guarding against IT systems failure

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

It’s every data center manager’s worst nightmare. Two active directory controllers broke over the weekend, and now the information technology department at the Baloise Group faced the uncomfortable prospect that if a third controller failed, 1,500 branch personnel would be unable to do their …

Dell set to grow through channel partners, focused branding, says CMO

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

Dell’s privatization in 2013 and $67 billion merger with EMC has been a four-year epic, running longer than many television series. The newly branded company that emerged — Dell Technologies Inc. — now stores more than half of the mission-critical data in …

How this Canadian university developed its own private cloud, shared it with others

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON9 YEARS AGO

The data explosion hit the University of British Columbia hard a few years ago, because provincial law required that personal information in the custody of a public institution had to be stored and accessed only in Canada. So the school’s information technology …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

IT availability gap hinders innovation and costs companies, says analyst

Tape storage is alive and well, says Quantum datacenter product director

How this Canadian university developed its own private cloud, shared it with others

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