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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Life on the edge: Michael Dell has made a career out of ignoring the obvious

Over Labor Day weekend, the Dell Technologies Championship golf tournament in Boston made headlines as Tiger Woods played in contention throughout the event. Faced with a chance to close within two shots of the lead midway through Monday’s final round, Woods left a putt right on the edge of the cup and failed to win. ...

Cisco’s CloudCenter geared to support businesses on multicloud journey

As more enterprises move workloads into multiple clouds, the need to manage that infrastructure has become greater. To meet this demand, Cisco Systems Inc. has created CloudCenter, a multicloud management tool designed to provide preconfigured integration capabilities for a number of cloud platforms. “CloudCenter manages over 15 clouds today,” said Zach Kielich (pictured, right), senior ...

Sun Microsystems co-founder and early Google investor is all-in on VMware NSX

Being first to market often has benefits, and it can take a special kind of vision to be the initial investor before others join the bandwagon. Which is why when Andy Bechtolsheim (pictured), founder, chief development officer and chairman of Arista Networks Inc., gets excited about an evolving technology, it’s probably a good time to ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER

Surprising database news brings AWS and VMware partnership into sharper focus

Going into VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas this week, industry analysts were wondering how VMware Inc. would expand its cloud partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc., jointly announced a year ago. They didn’t have to wait long. On Monday, AWS revealed that it would bring its Relational Database Service, or RDS, to VMware. “This is ...

​The sophisticated algorithms behind peer-to-peer money lending

Out of meltdown comes opportunity. In the aftermath of the financial crisis that gripped the world a decade ago, one of the outcomes was that banks began to dictate strict limits on consumer loans and obtaining funds became about as easy as finding a taxi in rush hour during a downpour. Enter peer-to-peer lending. As the ...

Improving the customer-engagement connection: Innovation evangelist weighs in

With the many technology tools available in the digital age, it would seem impossible to miss the mark on customer engagement. Social media platforms, data analytics, and sophisticated messaging all combine to deliver a powerful connection. How can a company blunder? Tiffani Bova (pictured, right), global customer growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce.com Inc., has ...
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Blockchain drives Web 3.0 in a new era of capital formation, says crypto entrepreneur Al Burgio

By today’s highly interactive standards, the earliest web pages were a pretty dull affair. In the 1990s world of Web 1.0, pages were static without much in the way of video, sound or transformative graphics. The era of Web 2.0 ushered in user-generated content and an explosion of social platforms, coupled with vastly improved technology that made ...
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Despite drop in cryptocurrency value, analysts see role for blockchain in enterprise

It’s shaping up to be a “Black August” for the digital token world. The cyptocurrency market lost $43 billion over five days this month. Is it time to panic? “The insiders are somewhat scared or saying they’ve seen this movie before,” said John Furrier, co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during this week’s Global ...

Northern Virginia college at the crossroads of modern internet development

Asked to name one of the nations’ historic centers for the internet’s growth, many people would likely single out Silicon Valley. Yet, a small suburban area of Virginia, formerly the home of gravel pits and dairy farms, occupies its own place in the tech story. Tysons Corner, Virginia, is where Steve Case worked to get ...
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AWS and Project Lead the Way aim to help close computer skills gap

There were more than 546,000 open computing jobs in the U.S. and only 49,000 computer science students graduated into the workforce last year, according to Code.org. By any definition, that’s a skills gap, and Amazon Web Services Inc. has partnered with a prominent national training organization to do something about it. The nonprofit organization Project Lead the ...