Bert Latamore

Bert Latamore is a freelance writer covering the intersection of IT and business for SiliconANGLE. He is a frequent contributor to CrowdChats focused on theCUBE coverage of major IT industry events and site editor at Wikibon.org. He has 35 years’ experience covering the IT industry including four with Gartner, five with Meta Group, and eight with Wikibon. He lives in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains with his wife, Moire, and their dog, cat and macaw. In his spare time he enjoys reading, hiking and photography.

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Wikibon sees software changing ground rules of business

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

IT organizations and the businesses they support need to work together to pilot their enterprises through the confusion of major changes rocking every boat. Established businesses are being challenged by a number of seismic shifts, including cloud computing, the huge increase in …

IBM pumps OpenPower with Xilinx partnership, Watson integration

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Continuing its campaign to stoke enthusiasm for its OpenPower processor, IBM today made several announcements: Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) maker Xilinx Inc. has joined the OpenPower Foundation at the platinum level and will join the foundation’s board. IBM and Xilinx also announced …

Edge computing provides better IoT economics, says Wikibon CTO

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Internet of Things (IoT) is on the verge of exploding onto the computing scene, and experts agree that data volumes will be astronomical. At its recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent event, Amazon presented a model that presumes all this data will be transmitted …

Wikibon to EMC channel: Don’t panic, but reassess your business

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

The EMC Federation/Dell Inc. merger announcement should not drive channel partners into panic mode. But it should be an opportunity for partners to reassess and in some cases redesign their businesses in light of market trends, writes Wikibon Senior Analyst Stuart Miniman …

Wikibon calls Microsoft-Red Hat partnership a win for both parties

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Microsoft has come a long ways under CEO Satya Nadella, writes Wikibon Lead Cloud Analyst Brian Gracely. Five years ago then-CEO Steve Ballmer called Linux a “cancer”. Today, between 25 percent and 33 percent of instances on Microsoft Azure are running some …

Banking, telco, retail lead Wikibon 2015 Big Data adoption survey

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Banking, telecommunications, media and retail lead Big Data adoption in the Wikibon Fall 2015 survey, writes Wikibon Analyst Ralph Finos in “Big Data Adoption Progress Across Industries.” Health care showed the biggest positive change in its overall adoption in the 18 months …

IBM a step ahead in Big Data analysis market says Wikibon

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

IBM is a step ahead of the competition in getting value from Big Data, and it showed that off at Insight 2015 last month. While the rest of the industry is still focused on developing Big Data infrastructure like Hadoop and Spark, …

EMC/VMware cloud plan leaves many open questions – Wikibon

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

The VMware/EMC announcement of the creation of a jointly owned Cloud Services business under the Virtustream Inc., brand and incorporating VMware vCloud Air has answered one question – what the EMC Federation will do about its multiple public cloud businesses. However, writes …

Pentaho seeks to manage data pipeline for Systems of Intelligence says Wikibon

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Pentaho Corp.’s ambition is to orchestrate the analytic data pipeline from end-to-end, writes Wikibon Big Data & Analytics Analyst George Gilbert in “Systems of Intelligence Through Pentaho’s Lens.” Judging from Pentaho World last month, it is making steady progress toward that goal. …

Wikibon: Convergence spells the end of storage as we know it

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

The storage industry has been in turmoil, with solid-state flash replacing spinning disk and new companies entering to challenge the market leaders. At the same time storage is being subsumed into larger packages – converged and hyper-converged systems and especially cloud services. …

Bert Latamore

Latest from Bert Latamore

Wikibon sees software changing ground rules of business

IBM pumps OpenPower with Xilinx partnership, Watson integration

Edge computing provides better IoT economics, says Wikibon CTO

Wikibon to EMC channel: Don’t panic, but reassess your business

Wikibon calls Microsoft-Red Hat partnership a win for both parties

Banking, telco, retail lead Wikibon 2015 Big Data adoption survey

IBM a step ahead in Big Data analysis market says Wikibon

EMC/VMware cloud plan leaves many open questions – Wikibon

Pentaho seeks to manage data pipeline for Systems of Intelligence says Wikibon

Wikibon: Convergence spells the end of storage as we know it

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