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

How Crossplane allows companies to build platforms for the cloud-native world

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON4 YEARS AGO

The enterprise world has seen entire businesses, such as Snowflake, Databricks and Confluent built on the cloud platform. These are essentially platforms built on platforms, and one company is pursuing an answer to a simple question: Why can’t every company do this …

Microsoft turns to Linkerd cluster management for delivery of Xbox Cloud Gaming services

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON4 YEARS AGO

Microsoft recently disclosed that 10 million users had given Xbox Game Pass a try. What those cloud gaming customers may not have realized is that they used a light, fast service mesh to check out the new technology. The services powering Xbox …

Three insights you might have missed from the Red Hat Summit event

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON4 YEARS AGO

Open source is becoming mainstream technology, and that’s reshaping how it will affect daily life. An example of this trend can be found in May’s announcement by Red Hat Inc. of an In-Vehicle Operating System in partnership with General Motors Co. While …

Three insights you might have missed from DockerCon 2022

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON4 YEARS AGO

The theme of DockerCon 2022 was “Discover, Learn, Excel.” The organizers could have also added “Grow” in keeping with the rising popularity of Docker Inc.’s revitalized developer tools. Docker held back-to-back funding rounds in 2021 and 2022, which netted over $120 million …

What to expect at KubeCon EU 2022: Join theCUBE for May 18-20 event

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON4 YEARS AGO

As key leaders from the enterprise tech community gather in Valencia, Spain, for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe May 16-20, the focus will be on both the promise and challenges for Kubernetes. Two data points for the popular container orchestration tool capture what …

3 insights you might have missed from the Dell Technologies World event

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON4 YEARS AGO

The latest innovations in the multicloud era were on display in Las Vegas earlier this month as Dell Technologies World convened as an in-person gathering for the first time since the spin-off of VMware Inc. in November. While there was plenty of …

The historic complexity of software security, and what the big players are doing about it

SECURITY By MARK ALBERTSON4 YEARS AGO

It began with a seemingly innocuous Twitter message in mid-December 2020 from SolarWinds Inc. advising customers to immediately upgrade their Orion platforms. Few knew or suspected at the time that a vulnerability uncovered by the security software provider would become one of …

Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier talks hybrid multicloud, GM partnership, IBM and the future of hardware

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON4 YEARS AGO

In the mind of Paul Cormier, chief executive officer of Red Hat Inc., the importance of hybrid versus multicloud isn’t even a close debate. It’s multicloud all the way. “Multi is more prevalent and more important than just hybrid alone,” Cormier said. …

Snowflake becomes latest cloud-native powerhouse to build a bridge with the on-prem world

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON4 YEARS AGO

The gravitational pull of the on-premises compute environment in proving hard to resist. In 2019, Amazon Web Services Inc. opened its cloud-native doors to include an on-prem data-sharing option with the introduction of AWS Outposts. Now another major cloud-native player, Snowflake Inc., …

Real-time breakthroughs power Dell and VMware edge solutions in operational technology

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON4 YEARS AGO

Among the many announcements made by VMware Inc. during VMworld in October was the launch of Edge Compute Stack. A key element of the solution, which combined virtual machine and container-based stacks for modernizing edge-native applications, was an ability to provide real-time …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

Three insights you might have missed from the Red Hat Summit event

What to expect at KubeCon EU 2022: Join theCUBE for May 18-20 event

3 insights you might have missed from the Dell Technologies World event

Snowflake becomes latest cloud-native powerhouse to build a bridge with the on-prem world

Real-time breakthroughs power Dell and VMware edge solutions in operational technology

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