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

IBM’s Vision message: democratized data analysis #IBMvision

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

The message that IBM brought to theCUBE from its Vision 2015 conference in Orlando last week was democratized data analysis. With its Watson Cognitive Computing platform in particular, and with other analysis tools like Cognos and SPSS in its arsenal, IBM says …

Wikibon: Software redefines competition

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Software is becoming the focus not just of IT but often of the business, as smartphones and the Web become increasingly central to customers’ lives and therefore an important conduit for providing products and services in multiple markets. New software technologies and …

IBM played the open, high performance cards at Edge #IBMEdge

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

IBM put all its hardware and middleware on display this year at its fourth annual Edge conference. Originally a storage show, this year it h\was expanded to cover the new System z13 mainframe and Power8 servers and associated software. Overall it made …

Analyst reflects on four-year Big Data rocket ride

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Big Data has grown from a promise into a business reality in the last four years, writes former Wikibon Analyst Jeff Kelly in his final Wikibon Professional Alert. Kelly (below right) left Wikibon on Friday for another opportunity. When Kelly joined Wikibon in …

Ask a Wikibon Analyst: Is disk dead?

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

With the cost of NAND flash storage dropping like a rock, driven by massive demand in consumer electronics, the storage industry is in the midst of major technological disruption. NAND flash is 1,000 times faster than spinning disk in reads and writes. …

Beyond hybrid cloud – enterprises need composite cloud, says Wikibon analyst

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Hybrid cloud is the latest trend in enterprise computing, but hybrid cloud is much too limited and inflexible to meet the fast evolving needs of the enterprise. Hybrid cloud presumes one on-premise cloud and one off-premise cloud on an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform …

East African consumer goods manufacturer turns to IBM to support 5-year, 4X growth plan

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Kenyan-based food and consumer goods manufacturer and distributor Bidco Africa, Ltd., plans to become the number one supplier of consumer goods including cooking oils, baking products, detergents, personal care and beauty products and animal feeds, across Africa by 2030. To do that, …

Why Flash-as-Memory-Extension is the future of enterprise storage

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

For decades, storage read/write speed was the gating factor for data center performance. In the last three years that has changed with the advent of NAND flash storage, with nanosecond I/O response times that are fast enough to keep up with modern processors. …

Wikibon: Hybrid cloud requires unified user ID

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

As enterprises move to hybrid architectures that combine their traditional on-premise systems and new cloud services, they need to move to a single unified user identification and access management system (see graphic on right). Relying on multiple identification systems that require users …

MIT’s McAfee: Second machine age will be ‘much bigger than the Net’

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

As the Second Machine Age (2MA) – driven by digital technologies like cloud, AI and robotics – accelerates innovation, MIT’s Andrew McAfee admits to having some concerns about whether people can keep up but says “I worry even more about trying to halt …

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Latest from Bert Latamore

IBM’s Vision message: democratized data analysis #IBMvision

IBM played the open, high performance cards at Edge #IBMEdge

Analyst reflects on four-year Big Data rocket ride

Ask a Wikibon Analyst: Is disk dead?

Beyond hybrid cloud – enterprises need composite cloud, says Wikibon analyst

East African consumer goods manufacturer turns to IBM to support 5-year, 4X growth plan

Why Flash-as-Memory-Extension is the future of enterprise storage

Wikibon: Hybrid cloud requires unified user ID

MIT’s McAfee: Second machine age will be ‘much bigger than the Net’

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