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

Watch live: Amazon celebrates EC2’s 15th year of innovation Aug. 23-24

INFRA By MARK ALBERTSON5 YEARS AGO

EC2, also known as Elastic Compute Cloud, sits at the core of the Amazon Web Services Inc. platform, and the company is celebrating the technology’s 15th birthday this year. What many people may not know is that the original version of EC2 …

Fifteen years and going strong: AWS celebrates milestone birthday for EC2

INFRA By MARK ALBERTSON5 YEARS AGO

Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, turns 15 years old this year, marking a significant milestone for both the company and the computing world it serves. The EC2 instance, a virtual server running applications on Amazon Web Services Inc. infrastructure, sits at …

Dasera gains awards and funding as it offers a cloud-focused, end-to-end approach for data security

SECURITY By MARK ALBERTSON5 YEARS AGO

For a company that emerged from stealth mode only months ago, Dasera Inc. has managed to capture a surprising number of awards. The data security company’s website lists 10 accolades, including a listing among CRN’s “Top 10 Hottest Cloud Security Startups,” and recognition …

Oracle MySQL champion Nipun Agarwal explains the challenges of scaling up algorithms for data migrations

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON5 YEARS AGO

After launching MySQL HeatWave in December, Oracle Corp. did not wait long to add enhancements to the database query accelerator and ratchet up the competitive pressure in the process. The company announced a number of new enhancements and features for HeatWave this …

Cloudera and Nvidia partnership looks to streamline data science and accelerated workloads

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON5 YEARS AGO

The recent partnership between Cloudera Inc. and Nvidia Corp., announced in April, is worth watching as it represents an important step in creating architectures of the future for streamlining data science and machine learning pipelines. This DataOps trend, outlined by research firm …

New benchmark data shows Oracle HeatWave gaining traction for speed, cost savings

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON5 YEARS AGO

Concurrent with the latest enhancements for Oracle Corp.’s HeatWave MySQL database announced today, the company is beginning to gather and report benchmark data from key customers since introduction of the service in December. The results initially show validation of the company’s claims …

At Black Hat, mobile and open source emerge as key cybersecurity dangers

SECURITY By MARK ALBERTSON5 YEARS AGO

Mobile platforms and open-source software emerged as key cybersecurity issues at the annual Black Hat USA cybersecurity conference this week, judging from presentations by a mix of onsite attendees and virtual streaming of briefings from security researchers around the globe. In his …

IBM’s latest storage enhancements address security and as-a-service delivery for enterprise customers

CLOUD By MARK ALBERTSON5 YEARS AGO

IBM announced enhancements to its storage systems portfolio last month with a focus on two of the hottest topics in the enterprise world: security and as-a-service delivery. The company added new features and protections for its FlashSystem all-flash arrays by offering IBM …

Watch live: Cloudera will focus on data-driven insight and enterprise innovation for August 5 event

BIG DATA By MARK ALBERTSON5 YEARS AGO

Cloudera Inc. has made recent moves landing it prominently in the news. While that has justifiably captured the interest of shareholders and Wall Street, perhaps more significant is the technological direction of the company going forward. Cloudera occupies an important place in …

Cybersecurity gets a threat hunting boost through Ahana Cloud and Securonix partnership

SECURITY By MARK ALBERTSON5 YEARS AGO

Ahana Cloud Inc.’s open-source high performance SQL query engine has found a home in the cybersecurity space. Ahana began offering Presto, an open-source project originally developed at Facebook Inc. and incubated within the Linux Foundation, one year ago. Presto speeds up database …

Mark Albertson

Latest from Mark Albertson

Oracle MySQL champion Nipun Agarwal explains the challenges of scaling up algorithms for data migrations

Cloudera and Nvidia partnership looks to streamline data science and accelerated workloads

New benchmark data shows Oracle HeatWave gaining traction for speed, cost savings

At Black Hat, mobile and open source emerge as key cybersecurity dangers

IBM’s latest storage enhancements address security and as-a-service delivery for enterprise customers

Watch live: Cloudera will focus on data-driven insight and enterprise innovation for August 5 event

Cybersecurity gets a threat hunting boost through Ahana Cloud and Securonix partnership

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