Profile of Kurt Marko
Contributing Editor
News & Commentary Posts: 103
Kurt Marko is an InformationWeek and Network Computing contributor and IT industry veteran, pursuing his passion for communications after a varied career that has spanned virtually the entire high-tech food chain from chips to systems. Upon graduating from Stanford University with a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering, Kurt spent several years as a semiconductor device physicist, doing process design, modeling and testing. He then joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a memory chip designer and CAD and simulation developer.
Moving to Hewlett-Packard, Kurt started in the laser printer R&D lab doing electrophotography development, for which he earned a patent, but his love of computers eventually led him to join HP’s nascent technical IT group. He spent 15 years as an IT engineer and was a lead architect for several enterprisewide infrastructure projects at HP, including the Windows domain infrastructure, remote access service, Exchange e-mail infrastructure and managed Web services.
Articles by Kurt Marko
posted in September 2012
9/26/2012
Tablets do work better than laptops for some people and tasks. Tailor the device to the workload.
9/24/2012
Vegas data center confab shows technology, economics, and a cutthroat business environment shaping infrastructure hosting and services.
9/20/2012
The OS will tempt those looking to go mobile while staying within the Microsoft world.
9/13/2012
Intel recognizes we're in a PC-plus era--and just in time. But can it corral device partners who have moved on to other mobile hardware platforms?
9/5/2012
Pogoplug takes the chill off Glacier, turning it into a continuously replicated archive.