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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Pure Storage stakes out lead position with AI-ready infrastructure

Pure Storage Inc. is raising the stakes in the artificial intelligence game for the storage market. On Wednesday, the company announced a second AI-ready infrastructure offering called the AIRI Mini that was architected in collaboration with Nvidia Corp. The AI solution is designed to help speed AI adoption for enterprise customers. “They want to be ...

Datometry tackles three-headed IT monster: time, money and risk

What keeps chief information officers up at night? Time, money and risk. The triple-headed monster accounts for the biggest source of heartburn for information technology executives when it comes to database migration. This is why Datometry Inc. has been one of the first companies to acknowledge the concern and offer a solution for database migration ...

At Google, enterprise tools are scalable, intelligent, secure and homegrown

The development and deployment of the Kubernetes container management platform is just one example of a technology that Google Inc. developed first as an internal tool and then made available in the enterprise community where it took off like a rocket. One container survey in 2016 found that over 50 percent of respondents did not use containers ...

Azure aims to give ‘snorage’ a wake-up call

If storage is boring, then Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella hasn’t gotten the memo. The company has been beefing up its data storage portfolio through acquisitions and new product offerings. Whether it’s Azure Blob storage with the expandable capacity for hundreds to billions of objects in hot or cool archive tiers, to the recently ...

Veeam’s co-CEO bets that hyper-availability will continue to drive hyper-growth

At the core of Veeam Software Inc.’s pitch to the enterprise is its recognition that data is driving just about any business, and the need to manage that resource is significant. Companies want solutions that allow for the management and protection of data across any application or cloud infrastructure, and Veeam is prepared to deliver that. ...

A decade of lies, a new era for hardware: Veeam goes end-to-end

There are white lies, black lies, gray lies, and then that special fourth category: lies before expanding into a new technology space. When Veeam Software Inc. started, it was focused on being the best virtualized product for VMware Inc. Then along came 2016. “We finally admitted that we’ve been lying to our customers for 10 ...

Former Navy admiral sees danger brewing in the virtual ‘public square’

After more than 30 years of service in the U.S. Navy, Rear Admiral (ret.) David Simpson (pictured) knows danger when he sees it. As he surveys the cybersecurity horizon, he’s become more concerned about the potential for weaponizing social media in the virtual “public square” that the online world has become. Recent allegations of message ...

Veeam’s customer growth numbers capture analysts’ attention

Tech industry analysts are usually not overly impressed by numbers, but when Veeam Software Inc.’s company executives offered a few relevant statistics at the opening of the VeeamON event this week in Chicago, a couple of metrics piqued interest. “For me, the number that jumped out is they have over 300,000 customers,” said Stu Miniman ...

Accenture leverages own platform to integrate public and private cloud services

As one of the world’s leading global professional services companies, Accenture has a ringside seat to the changes taking place in today’s information technology industry. Clients ranging from small businesses to the largest multinationals are looking for ways to drive agile application development in both the public and private cloud-based worlds at scale and quickly. ...

IBM and Red Hat complete the certified stack

Last week’s announcement from IBM Corp. that it would extends its Cloud Private and Cloud Private for Data platforms to support Red Hat Inc.’s OpenShift container ecosystem was a move by both firms to recognize the industry’s multicloud momentum. The action was designed for customers of the two companies to combine technologies from the both ...