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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Docker CEO provides insight into WebAssembly announcement for developers

The WebAssembly wave is coming, and Docker Inc. signaled its intent this week to ride it as far as it may go. The container platform company launched a preview of WebAssembly, or Wasm, tooling during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022. Wasm is designed to run native code safely in the browser and streamline the porting ...
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A glimpse into supercomputing’s past and future: TheCUBE previews SC22

The field of high-performance computing has grown with the rest of the technology world, progressing from its use as a niche tool for weather prediction and nuclear weapons modeling to providing support for an increasing number of enterprise use cases. What this means for the future of HPC will be the focus during upcoming International Conference ...
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Three insights you might have missed from IFS Unleashed

At a time when many enterprise application platforms are seeking to support all use cases, IFS AB is going vertical. The company made it clear during its IFS Unleashed event in Miami Beach last week that it will focus on aerospace, energy, defense, construction and engineering, manufacturing, energy, and telecommunications as its primary vertical markets. ...

Software companies endure a valuation reset, but some investors remain optimistic

For nearly four decades, Jeff Kofman covered major events for ABC News across the globe. He narrowly escaped a firefight during a coup in Haiti, spent five tours covering the Iraq War, and watched a man die in front of him during an insurrection in Honduras. All of this was preparation for his current role ...
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Bitcoin community casts wary eye at government regulation and central banks

The cryptocurrency community is on a collision course with government regulators and the centralized banking system, and the outcome could have big repercussions for a digital currency model based on decentralized finance and peer-to-peer transactions around the globe. The coming collision was very much on the minds of attendees at Bitcoin Amsterdam this week, billed ...
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Partnership on Oracle Exadata X9M could influence future innovation in AMD’s Zen processor line

One company was founded in 1969, and the other got its start a mere eight years later. Both have come together recently to reshape the database industry and potentially change future chip design. Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has teamed up with Oracle Corp. to extend the capabilities of the enterprise database through advances in ...
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Three insights you might have missed from the Dell ‘Trusted Infrastructure’ event

Enterprises are taking a closer look at securing information technology infrastructure, and it’s proving to be a tall order. The work to secure virtual and bare metal machines, in addition to the software that runs on them, has revealed a catalog of vulnerabilities that outstrip the tools designed to guard against intrusion. This is the ...

Joint NetApp, VMware and AWS solution streamlines cross-platform workload operations

Three powerhouse enterprise tech companies have joined forces to provide customers with flexible, high-performance virtualized storage infrastructure that can be scaled independently from compute. The VMware Cloud on AWS integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP solution was unveiled during VMware Explore in late August. The integration of technologies between the three companies is designed ...

DPU solution could change the game for VMware’s network and application security model

VMware Inc. announced an intriguing development on the security front during its recent annual conference. The virtualization pioneer unveiled an enhancement for its NSX network platform that leverages data processing unit acceleration using smart network interface controllers. Behind the technical jargon of VMware’s announcement can be found a simple reality: The DPU has the potential ...

Lightweight agents help CrowdStrike process 7 trillion events per week for customer security

The technology behind CrowdStrike cybersecurity solution relies on lightweight agents or sensors to monitor for threats and collect vital security data. As organizations have learned, some agents can be lighter than others. “Many times when you look at them, they are not lightweight; they take a lot of effort to install, and they need reboots,” ...