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.

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NetApp’s Cloud Volumes for Google comes to the aid of Cardinal Health

The partnership between NetApp Inc. and Google Cloud reached another milestone last week when NetApp was named the Technology Partner of the Year for Infrastructure. The Cloud Volumes service for Google, launched by NetApp approximately one year ago, has become a simple way for information technology organizations to spin up a cloud-native, no-ops file storage ...
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Value is the new lock-in: Apigee seeks to transform applications in a hybrid world

With all of the talk in the enterprise about applications, what do they really mean to the average employee? In many instances, applications drive personalization on the web. One example of this can be found in the growth of “my” sites, with the ability for users to structure how they use a site’s products or services ...
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Google Fellow Eric Brewer offers insight into Anthos and open-source strategy

While there is a great deal of evidence that enterprises are moving en masse to the cloud, one key piece of data puts the transformation in perspective. According to statistics cited by Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian, 80% of workloads are still on-premises. This percentage alone offers a reason why Google Cloud introduced ...
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NetApp CEO sees integration as the core asset in a hybrid world

Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian’s twin brother, George, shares a lot more than the same personal features. Both are now CEOs of major technology businesses, both grew up together in India and both possess a strong affinity for the hybrid, multicloud world. For George Kurian (pictured), CEO of NetApp Inc., the hybrid model ...

Cisco/Google partnership spotlights influential role of developers in app-centric world

When Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian took the stage at Next ’19 in San Francisco on Tuesday, he described how Google was listening to its customers. From the subsequent flow of announcements during the conference this week, developers must have figured prominently in those customer conversations. Signs of Google’s developer courtship can be ...
ANALYSIS

Security stakes rise for cloud providers as Google rolls out new protection tools

Whether it’s in response to concerns from large enterprise customers or from their own global threat intelligence, security is very much on the minds of top executives for the leading cloud providers these days. At the Amazon Web Services Summit in March, Amazon.com Inc Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels devoted a significant amount of time in his ...
ANALYSIS

At Next, Google Cloud makes case for capital investment and security

Businesses with big ambitions had better be able to fund them. Google Cloud’s top executive made it a point today to ensure there would not be any doubts about the level of his company’s commitment as a major cloud provider. Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian opened his keynote remarks at the company’s Cloud Next conference in ...

Video’s growing online dominance sends media companies to the cloud

Before software is going to eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously declared, video is going to eat the Internet. A report from Cisco Systems Inc., released in February, showed that IP video traffic would comprise 82% of the Internet by 2022. The bottom line is that streaming of live events and a tidal wave ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE NEW HYBRID CLOUD

Google Cloud unveils Anthos amid questions on enterprise strategy and acquisitions

Google LLC rebranded its Cloud Services Platform today under the name of Anthos, the Greek term for “flowers.” Anthos will have general availability on 30 launch partners, including Cisco Systems Inc. and Dell EMC, according to Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian, raising hopes that the hybrid platform will blossom into a multicloud engine that can drive ...

Analysts emphasize importance of fog-free visibility at the edge

There is a school of thought among some analysts in the enterprise world that edge computing will eat the cloud. This notion was further reinforced during the keynote discussion by several executives at Fortinet Inc. on the opening day of the Fortinet Accelerate conference in Orlando, Florida. Yet, other analysts have a slightly different view ...