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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FlashStack offers a different tool for the converged infrastructure

It turns out there’s a lot that can be packed into a single, integrated all-flash architecture. Start with storage hardware, add compute and network, then throw in virtualization software and the complete package is ready to go. Cisco Systems Inc.’s partnership with Pure Storage Inc. to bring the power and efficiency of all-flash storage to ...

Presence on Cisco Global Price List could propel Veeam in 2018

Among the many announcements from Veeam Software Inc. in 2017 was the news that it would be added to Cisco System Inc.’s Global Price List by the end of the year. The addition allowed networking hardware provider Cisco and its resellers to offer Veeam’s data backup and recovery solutions, a move that continues a partnership ...

Oracle Cloud may be a niche player now, but it’s looking to bust out

With a mere 2 percent of the foundational infrastructure-as-a-service cloud market, Oracle Corp. has often been typed as a niche cloud player. The company can pursue enterprises, particularly those in its extensive customer base, that want a staged migration to the cloud. It can offer an extensive portfolio of software-as-a-service applications and position itself as ...

SiliconANGLE Media boosts its own digital transformation, hires new CRO

When SiliconANGLE Media Inc. was founded Dave Vellante and John Furrier set out to create a new kind of company, one that would combine research (Wikibon), real-time reporting (SilconANGLE.com), and live video event coverage (theCUBE). The result was a unique and highly targeted formula for delivering high-quality information in real-time using advanced technology tools combined ...

The key acquisitions, strategies behind Cisco Spark’s IoT for workplaces

Cisco Systems Inc. has a plan to become the digital assistant for the company meeting room. By connecting its hardware and software to its collaboration suite, Cisco Spark, the company aims to position itself at the center of enterprise communication. “Spark is a digital assistant, just like Amazon Alexa or Apple Siri, but built for the enterprise ...

Data controls produce bottom-line impact, says Cisco study

As customers ask pointed questions about how their data will be stored, accessed and managed, companies are increasingly having to come up with satisfactory answers. This dialogue is raising the distinct possibility that business may soon be declaring the value of data on company accounting statements, especially when high-profile breaches can have a significant monetary ...

Cisco aims for 1 billion connected devices through Jasper and Kinetic

One billion of anything is a large number, yet that’s the number of connected devices that Cisco Systems Inc. hopes to reach with its Jasper and Kinetic “internet of things” platforms. That might be a tall order given that the company’s technology is currently connected to only 60 million devices, with a growth estimate of 100 million ...
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Phantom Auto races to get autonomous cars on the road – with a little human help

Talk with any company involved in autonomous cars, and it’s likely to insist that it wants to take the driver out of the car, full stop. One startup is taking a different approach. It wants to keep the human driver — just not in the car itself. Phantom Auto has begun piloting technology for autonomous ...
SUNDANCE 2018

Filling the gaps between VR and film, techie studio sees future in sports media

Aside from driving spell checkers (and editors) crazy, the new wave production company m ss ng p eces has positioned itself as an important player in the evolution of creative entertainment using technology. The company started out developing original video programming for major clients, such as Wired Magazine and TED in the mid-2000s, but its ...
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As GDPR looms, companies lose time and money over data privacy concerns

For most companies, a sale delayed means money lost, and now data privacy can be added to the list of holdups that hit the bottom line. According to a recently released study by Cisco Systems Inc., customer concerns over how data is captured, stored and deleted are causing sales delays ranging from two to 16 ...