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

Machine learning building blocks create complexity, says Wikibon analyst

BIG DATA By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

Advanced analysis tools are critical to extracting value from big data. The problem, writes Wikibon Big Data & Analytics Analyst George Gilbert, is that the various open source and proprietary building blocks of machine learning analysis applications often use incompatible application and …

Wikibon sees 2020 as tipping point in which flash goes mainstream

INFRA By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

Consumer volume economics and enterprise data value benefits will drive solid-state (flash) drive dominance in the enterprise storage market for the foreseeable future, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer. Today, flash storage is still more expensive per bit than traditional hard (magnetic) disk …

Wikibon sees ARM, OpenPower, flash storage prospering in 2017

INFRA By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

Five of Wikibon Chief Technology Officer David Floyer’s six predictions for 2017 are underscored by a single assumption: Consumer technologies will drive into the enterprise information technology market with greater speed and success than technologies built exclusively for the enterprise. Floyer sees …

Wikibon: Fragmentation frustrates Industrial Internet of Things early adopters

INFRA By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

The Industrial Internet of Things has specialized needs, including the ability to create, process, store, analyze and discard 95 percent of data at edge locations such as wind farms and offshore oil fields. Wikibon defined these in “The Vital Role of Edge …

VMware/AWS is a win for IT, but many details unclear, analyst says

CLOUD By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

The Amazon Web Services-VMware Inc. agreement that will see VMware virtualization services running natively on bare-metal AWS servers is a potential big win for enterprise IT, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer. In some ways the partnership is a natural, Floyer writes. Each …

Analyst sees AWS-VMware accord unleashing software innovation

CLOUD By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

The new agreement between Amazon Web Services and VMware Inc. to allow transaction processing applications running on VMware to migrate between on-premise and AWS VMware clusters will catalyze legacy application innovation, writes Wikibon Lead Big Data and Analytics Analyst George Gilbert. It will …

Report: AWS-VMware accord opens new hybrid cloud possibilities

CLOUD By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

On-premises and public cloud computing have developed largely independent of each other, with each using different hardware, software and data center architectures. These basic differences have made the promise of hybrid computing – to enable applications to access resources and data both …

Analyst sees storage driving computer performance growth

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

For most of information technology’s 70-year history since the Eniac computer, the industry has depended on Moore’s Law — the reality that processor chip powery would double roughly every 18 months — to meet the constant demands for higher performance to support …

Researchers explain why most IoT action will happen at the edge

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

The industrial Internet of things (IoT) requires integrating information technology (IT) with operations technology (OT), and that can best be done at the edge, where the machinery being measured lives, rather than in a central data center or even in the public …

How big data and DBMS markets fundamentally differ

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

Big data technologies differ from traditional RDBMS in one basic and very important respect, writes Wikibon Big Data & Analytics Analyst George Gilbert. RDBMS technology was vertically integrated, with each vendor developing its core technology and adding to it over time. Big data …

Bert Latamore

Latest from Bert Latamore

Machine learning building blocks create complexity, says Wikibon analyst

Wikibon sees 2020 as tipping point in which flash goes mainstream

Wikibon sees ARM, OpenPower, flash storage prospering in 2017

Wikibon: Fragmentation frustrates Industrial Internet of Things early adopters

VMware/AWS is a win for IT, but many details unclear, analyst says

Analyst sees AWS-VMware accord unleashing software innovation

Report: AWS-VMware accord opens new hybrid cloud possibilities

Analyst sees storage driving computer performance growth

Researchers explain why most IoT action will happen at the edge

How big data and DBMS markets fundamentally differ

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