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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CEO Doug Merritt says Splunk remains focused on driving revenue and customer success

Eighteen years after its founding, Splunk Inc. has become a central part of the big data conversation. The company has grown to over 7,500 employees and counts 91 of the Fortune 100 companies as customers. Over that time, Splunk’s role has evolved from being just one of many tech tools within an organization to empowering ...

Splunk’s SURGe initiative seeks to raise cybersecurity response to a new level

On a chilly night in mid-December, security researchers at Splunk Inc. began to see numerous references to SolarWinds pop up in Slack channels and security forums frequently used by those who guard major public and private network systems against attack. It didn’t take long for the security community to suspect that something big was happening, ...

McLaren Racing’s CEO Zak Brown talks about how his team is driven by data and Splunk

On many weekends during the year, auto sports fans from around the world tune in to watch Formula One, the highest class of international racing for single seat cars. It is high entertainment on a global stage, yet many of the millions who follow Formula One may not be aware they are witnessing what may ...

Advances in DPU and programmability drive latest switch solution from Aruba and Pensando Systems

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, and Pensando Systems Inc. have recently announced a new programmable switch designed to enable a multitude of stateful functions on a switch platform. The new addition to the Aruba portfolio is the CX 10000. It represents a significant advance in distributed services architecture for IT environments. What is under ...
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Teresa Carlson sees transformational opportunity for Splunk in growing cloud data management space

Approximately six months ago, Splunk Inc. made headlines with the news that it had hired longtime Amazon Web Services Inc. executive Teresa Carlson (pictured) to step into the newly created role of president and chief growth officer. Carlson, who led the worldwide public sector practice for AWS, had seen the transformational power of cloud technology ...

Aruba and Pensando Systems introduce CX 10000 to address shifting datacenter traffic flows

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. company, and Pensando Systems Inc. are collaborating on a change in datacenter technology which recognizes that the flow of data traffic is shifting. Data has traditionally flowed north-south, or in and out of a datacenter to other locations. Now that datacenter architecture has expanded to include cloud and edge ...

HPE CEO Antonio Neri and Pensando’s John Chambers on the new edge computing switches from Aruba

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and its Aruba subsidiary are taking the next step in an evolving partnership with startup Pensando Systems Inc. Following the announcement two years ago by HPE that it would lead a Series C investment of $145 million in Pensando, the two companies have steadily rolled out a series of innovations since. ...

Dell adds new hybrid and archive nodes along with enhanced security for PowerScale

With the most recent flexibility and security enhancements to its lineup of PowerScale Storage systems, Dell Technologies Inc. is providing a wider range of options for scalability, cloud integration and mixed media data processing. The recent introduction of Dell’s PowerScale hybrid H700 and H7000 nodes, coupled with A300 and A3000 archive nodes, provide more cores, memory ...

New releases from Citrix seek to modernize, streamline the remote work model

Sometimes technology can be both a savior and a burden. When much of the working world turned to remote connectivity in 2020, employees embraced collaboration tools to keep businesses up and running. This proved to be a huge plus for workplace continuity, but it also came at a price. A survey of IT decision-makers and ...

Red Hat’s Joe Fitzgerald pursues a steadfast vision for Ansible Automation

To fully appreciate the journey that Joe Fitzgerald, vice president and general manager of the Management Business Unit at Red Hat Inc., has taken in the technology world, it’s worth looking at the shortest stay in his lengthy career. After co-founding Novadigm Inc. in the 1990s, Fitzgerald became the chief technology officer, director of product development ...