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

Confused over Big Data tools and databases? Wikibon’s George Gilbert provides answers

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Not long ago the database technology question was simple – the answer was RDBMS, and the only question was Oracle or an alternative. Then Big Data happened. Suddenly CIOs and CTOs are being bombarded with new data types – social media, GPS, …

Wikibon view: IBM legitimizing Spark to compete with Hadoop

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

IBM has legitimized Spark and wants to shift the axis of Big Data processing, the way it did the operating system world when it committed to Linux across all its platforms 16 years ago, writes Wikibon Big Data analyst George Gilbert. Back …

Red Hat flying high as big customer event opens next week

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Red Hat, Inc. executives should be buoyant as its annual Red Hat Summit opens in Boston next week. Lifted by yesterday’s strong earnings report and the exploding popularity of open source software, the biggest challenges the open-source company faces now are how to sustain momentum. …

Wikibon: Key ingredient of future storage architecture is leadership, not tiering

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Too many well-established, well-meaning, talented storage executives are approaching flash as a faster high-performance tier 1 disk rather than as a revolutionary new technology that changes the entire game, writes Wikibon Co-founder and CTO David Floyer in his latest Wikibon Premium Alert. …

Wikibon: Systems of Intelligence will underpin data-driven business #HadoopSummit

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

A new kind of application, called Systems of Intelligence, is evolving to provide real-time data analysis to support business decision-making on a micro-scale, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst George Gilbert. Amazon.com and Google provide early examples of these systems, which are …

Wikibon: Server SAN poised to radically simplify enterprise storage | #NextConf

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

The Server SAN (storage-area network) architecture that Wikibon first described last year can greatly simplify the way infrastructure is purchased and managed, but it requires changes in the way IT thinks about technology budgeting and deployment that will be difficult for many organizations …

Ask a Wikibon Analyst: How flash storage will revolutionize business

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Storage experts often say that NAND flash is a disruptive technology. Certainly flash is much faster than disk, but to be disruptive, it needs to be more than a faster disk drive. So I asked Wikibon co-founder and CTO David Floyer how …

Wikibon: Future looks bright for OpenStack #OpenStackSummit

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Last week’s OpenStack Summit showcased a vibrant developer organization and a healthy, growing user community that includes big names like Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Comcast Corp. and eBay, Inc. So despite some press reports that OpenStack is floundering, it actually is striding toward …

Wikibon: Top 10 reasons to migrate to all-flash data centers now

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Wikibon has been urging CIOs to re-architect their data centers around all-flash arrays for several months. Wikibon Co-founder and CTO David Floyer, in particular, has published several pieces of analysis demonstrating the compelling value of moving to an all-flash architecture, with primary …

What questions about the HP split will be answered at #HPDiscover 2015?

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Breaking up, as Neil Sedaka sang, is hard to do. It also takes time, particularly when it involves cleaving a Fortune 15 company in two. There have been few details about the breakup of Hewlett-Packard Co., which was originally announced last October. What …

Bert Latamore

Latest from Bert Latamore

Confused over Big Data tools and databases? Wikibon’s George Gilbert provides answers

Wikibon view: IBM legitimizing Spark to compete with Hadoop

Red Hat flying high as big customer event opens next week

Wikibon: Key ingredient of future storage architecture is leadership, not tiering

Wikibon: Systems of Intelligence will underpin data-driven business #HadoopSummit

Wikibon: Server SAN poised to radically simplify enterprise storage | #NextConf

Ask a Wikibon Analyst: How flash storage will revolutionize business

Wikibon: Future looks bright for OpenStack #OpenStackSummit

Wikibon: Top 10 reasons to migrate to all-flash data centers now

What questions about the HP split will be answered at #HPDiscover 2015?

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