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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 predicts Big Data market to top $61B in 2020

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Wikibon has extended its “Big Data Vendor Revenue and Market Forecast, 2011-2020” through 2020 and has estimated a 40 percent market growth in 2014, down from 60 percent in 2013. In his executive summary of the report, Wikibon Big Data analyst Jeff Kelly …

Wikibon urges enterprise CIOs to adopt a hybrid cloud manifesto

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Enterprises are turning to hybrid cloud strategies in response to often-fragmented cloud efforts that have seen one group in the IT organization build private clouds on top of virtualized environments while others move existing applications or write new ones on public cloud …

Wikibon: Oracle ZS4-4 storage appliance tops SP2 price/performance

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Based on the latest SP2 performance benchmarks and time-adjusted pricing for competitive systems, the Oracle Corp. ZS-4-4 storage appliance displays by far the best price-performance with high overall raw performance (see chart on right). Based on this analysis, Wikibon strongly recommends that …

Wikibon sees flash storage driving revolutionary business change

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Moving to an all-flash data center, in conjunction with a cloud-enabled converged architecture, can cut the typical large data center’s operations budget by one-third over the next five years (see graph at right), creating resources for new development, according to a new …

IBM to open customer centers for software-defined network simulation

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

IBM today announced Network Innovation Centers in Nice, France, and Dallas, where IBM clients can work with software-defined networking (SDN) and automation technologies from multiple providers on simulations of their network environments and typical workloads. “The network is the long pole in …

How cloud-based accounting revolutionized a CPA business

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

A client first turned CPA Jason Blumer on to Xero in 2012. That moment revolutionized his 12-year-old business. Back then, Blumer & Associates CPAs was a typical small CPA firm, mostly using spreadsheets and QuickBooks, and serving small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) in and …

Why an insurer chose IaaS over a major hardware refresh

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

When Noel Catrambone joined insurance holding company Kingsway Financial Services Inc.  as CIO in 2012, he faced a rebuilding situation. Originally a Canadian-based company and still traded on the Toronto as well as the New York Stock Exchanges, Kingsway had brought in new …

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