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: Hadoop needs comprehensive security to succeed in enterprise markets

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Hadoop security is fragmented and immature, and until this changes few Hadoop-based projects will move into production, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly. Wikibon’s Big Data Analytics Adoption Survey, 2014-2015, found that security concerns were the second largest obstacle to moving …

Wikibon analyst: Open Data Platform debate is all about the money

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

The debate over the Open Data Platform presently raging in the Big Data community is, at its core, about money and is generated by the very different business models of the two main Hadoop competitors – Hortonworks, Inc. and Cloudera, Inc.. The …

Cognitive Computing: A new generation of analysis for the Big Data age

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Cognitive computing is a new form of computational analysis, combining leading-edge technologies including machine learning and natural language processing, to automate analysis of unstructured, and in particular written and spoken, data. Despite some claims to the contrary, it is designed to supplement …

Wikibon: Employee productivity should be a key consideration in flash storage ROI

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

As the price of flash storage continues to drop versus spinning disk and as flash technology proves itself to be at least as dependable as disk, organizations are beginning to move to flash for more applications. While the flash vendors claim that …

Converged systems entering new phase as market and technology matures

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Converged systems have been around for more than five years now, and they are entering a new phase both in market acceptance and in technology. Billions of dollars of converged infrastructure have been deployed, with VCE Company, LLC running at a $2 …

Wikibon: In-memory databases turn Big Data into actionable insights

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Big data promises to revolutionize business. But often business opportunities are fleeting. A retailer, for example, can only use information on up-selling a customer while that customer is in the store or on the retailer’s Web site. Once the customer checks out …

Big Data winners using inline analytics to derive large ROIs from their investment

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

A recent poll of Wikibon community members revealed that many are implementing initial Big Data systems. The vast majority of these, however, focus on an IT operational expense reduction in which large amounts of older company data is archived out of more expensive …

Despite hiccups, Big Data has a big future says Wikibon’s Kelly

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Big Data enables an inflection point in business, and it presents a $1 trillion-plus opportunity for vendors and practitioners, says Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly. In his keynote to theCUBE’s BigDataSV evening program last week in parallel with HadoopWorld, Kelly addressed six …

At EAT Club, every decision is data-driven

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Four-year-old EAT Club harnesses Big Data and cloud technologies to provide high quality lunches on time to offices in the San Francisco Bay/Silicon Valley area and more recently to Los Angeles. A born-in-the-cloud company, it works at the individual employee level. Companies subscribe …

Facebook reveals open-hardware network switch; should Cisco worry?

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Facebook announced at its Networking @Scale event today that it will contribute the design of a new modular, open source data center network switch, nicknamed “6-pack”, to the Open Compute Project (OCP). This will allow other companies to build and sell the …

Bert Latamore

Latest from Bert Latamore

Wikibon: Hadoop needs comprehensive security to succeed in enterprise markets

Wikibon analyst: Open Data Platform debate is all about the money

Cognitive Computing: A new generation of analysis for the Big Data age

Wikibon: Employee productivity should be a key consideration in flash storage ROI

Converged systems entering new phase as market and technology matures

Wikibon: In-memory databases turn Big Data into actionable insights

Big Data winners using inline analytics to derive large ROIs from their investment

Despite hiccups, Big Data has a big future says Wikibon’s Kelly

At EAT Club, every decision is data-driven

Facebook reveals open-hardware network switch; should Cisco worry?

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