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.

Latest from Bert Latamore

Wikibon says Hortonworks Dataflow is stream processor with a twist

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Hortonworks Inc.’s DataFlow, which the company brought to market thanks to its purchase of Onyara Inc., is much more than just another stream processor. It has a unique set of capabilities that makes it hard to classify and that are the answer …

Ignore flash trash talk, cautions Wikibon analyst

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Hard disk drive (HDD) vendors are spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) to discourage their customers from moving to flash storage for low-latency data, the value of which is measured is time-to-access rather than cost-per-terabyte. These vendor luddites claim that flash is …

Wikibon recommends multi-disciplinary approach to building effective Systems of Intelligence

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Building effective Systems of Intelligence (SoIs) is a three-step process requiring business and design knowledge as well as data science and, of course, coding. In his latest Professional Alert, “Getting Started with Machine Learning Foundation of Systems of Intelligence”, Wikibon Big Data …

SQL doesn’t mesh with Systems of Intelligence applications – Wikibon

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

For three decades, SQL has been the universal data research tool. It is flexible, powerful and, most of ,all universal. Business users who master it can work with virtually any data in any enterprise. It lets the user define what needs to …

Wikibon: Systems of Intelligence demand new database architectures

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Despite the headlines, traditional SQL databases are not yet dead, writes Wikibon Analyst George Gilbert. But it is “beginning to bleed from a thousand cuts” as new Systems of Intelligence demand new database types with different capabilities. The traditional RDBMS that has …

With prices plunging, Wikibon sees flash turning storage market on its head

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

NAND flash is taking over the storage market. Currently flash has less than 15 percent of the overall market, but that is rapidly changing as the per-TB cost of flash arrays plunges. In 2012 all-flash and hybrid flash-HDD arrays cost 10 times …

Wikibon analyst says flash snapshots will revolutionize information management

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

A major advantage driving the trend to all-flash storage environments is the prospect of replacing most database copies with snapshots, in the process cutting total storage needs in half. However, the danger is out-of-control snapshot proliferation that quickly grows beyond the ability …

Wikibon: Latency/capacity tradeoff a growing storage issue

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Storage was simple when spinning disks ruled the world, but today distinctions are drawn along such lines as disk versus flash, logical versus physical and local versus cloud. Underlying each category are the issues of latency versus capacity. That last distinction is …

Is vCloud Air the EMC Federation’s premier cloud platform or just one of many? | #VMworld

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Just how seriously should the industry – and more importantly EMC Federation customers – take VMware, Inc.’s vCloud Air? Is it a real competitor to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) leaders like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and IBM Softlayer? Would medium-to-large customers be …

Bert Latamore

Latest from Bert Latamore

Wikibon says Hortonworks Dataflow is stream processor with a twist

Ignore flash trash talk, cautions Wikibon analyst

Wikibon recommends multi-disciplinary approach to building effective Systems of Intelligence

SQL doesn’t mesh with Systems of Intelligence applications – Wikibon

Wikibon: Systems of Intelligence demand new database architectures

With prices plunging, Wikibon sees flash turning storage market on its head

Wikibon analyst says flash snapshots will revolutionize information management

Wikibon: Latency/capacity tradeoff a growing storage issue

Is vCloud Air the EMC Federation’s premier cloud platform or just one of many? | #VMworld

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