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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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Analytics pioneer GoodData adds automated expertise

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

With Hadoop and NoSQL technologies maturing, massive data storage services like Amazon RedShift appearing, enterprises moving from proof-of-concept to Big Data production implementations and Internet-of-Things (IoT) a growing reality, the focus in the Big Data market is shifting from capturing data to …

SoftLayer founder Lance Crosby leaves IBM

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Lance Crosby (right), founder and CEO of SoftLayer, who came to IBM when Big Blue acquired the company in 2013 and made it the center of IBM’s business cloud architecture, will leave IBM as early as Friday. The announcement comes just weeks after IBM …

CIO Angle: Oracle declares war on EMC, VCE

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison turned what was expected to be a routine announcement of the latest generation of Oracle/Sun Microsystems X5 Engineered System last Wednesday into a declaration of war on EMC and its converged systems partnership with Cisco called …

Medical center finds flash rewrites the rules of data storage

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

For most organizations, Big Data is still a future technology. In medicine, and in particular for major medical centers that combine advanced treatment of genetic diseases such as cancer with research, it is a present-day reality. The grainy grey-scale snapshots produced by medical …

HP targets verticals with ruggedized tablet line

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Hewlett-Packard Corp Inc.’s Personal Systems Division today announced a new set of mobile devices including tablets designed to meet the special needs of specific verticals. The tablets come with security, software and services designed for mobile. These tablets are designed specifically for the …

New IBM mainframe designed for analytics and mobile

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

IBM today is announcing a new mainframe, the System z13, designed for very high volume, high security transactional environments in an increasingly mobile world. Watch theCUBE from 11:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET to see the detailed announcements and interviews from the Jacob …

CIO Angle: IBM creates cloud group in market-focused shakeup

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

IBM is creating a new, vertically aligned, market-focused cloud business unit as part of what appears to be a bigger reorganization, according to company insiders and IBM watchers. The company itself has made no announcement, but Bloomberg initially reported creation of the …

Wikibon forecasts Hadoop-NoSQL market to hit $3 billion by 2017

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

The combined Hadoop-NoSQL market will exceed $3 billion in revenues in 2017 predicts Wikibon’s “Hadoop-NoSQL Software and Services Forecast, 2013-2017”. What’s driving growth is a major shift away from traditional relational databases such as Oracle and Teradata to Hadoop-based technologies, often used …

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