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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.

Latest from Bert Latamore

Teradata buying a future in Big Data

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Data warehouse heavyweight Teradata Operations, Inc., is buying its way into the future of Big Data, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly in his latest Professional Alert. Since 2011 Teradata has acquired Aster Data Systems, Hadapt (SQL-on-Hadoop) and Revalytics (Hadoop-focused data …

Database snapshots can cut backup costs, improve recovery points

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Data backup costs can be decreased and recovery-time objectives (RTOs) improved by leveraging space-efficient database snapshots and a general-purpose catalog, writes Wikibon CEO and Co-founder David Vellante in his latest Professional Alert.  Disk-based, purpose-built backup appliances using data deduplication, pioneered by DataDomain …

What investors can expect from Tableau’s 2-year R&D push

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Tableau, Inc. users can expect major advances in data visualization on mobile devices and tools to prepare data for analysis as a result of company CEO Christian Chabot’s pledge at the company’s annual conference that Tableau will spend more on research and development (R&D) …

Cloud services and virtual desktops round out VMware strategy

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Ed. Note: This is the second of a two-part series on VMware’s transition plan for its future, as presented in interviews on theCUBE at VMworld 2014. The first part looked at the software-defined infrastructure and VMware’s embrace of open source software, specifically Docker. …

VMware lays out four-part growth strategy

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

As hypervisors move toward commodity status and competitors Microsoft Azure and open source KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) gain market share, VMware presented a vision of its future at the VMworld conference last week based on four initiatives: the software-defined data center (SDDC), …

Report says data location critical to hybrid cloud success

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Data is heavy, and its location governs the optimal location of applications that need it in a hybrid cloud environment. This can determine the choice of architecture for a hybrid cloud, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in “Beyond Virtualization: From Consolidation to Orchestration …

Big Data practitioners need storyteller’s touch

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Technical expertise is not enough to convince end-users to accept Big Data analysis, writes Jeff Kelly in his latest Wikibon Alert. Practitioners also need a story teller’s touch. Decision-makers are used to basing their strategies on their experience and knowledge, Kelly maintains. …

Oracle appliance gives more bang for fewer bucks

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

The Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) provides more value at significantly less cost than custom Oracle implementations on white box hardware for both integrators and their customers, writes Wikibon Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer David Floyer in his latest Wikibon report. Returning to a favorite …

Enterprise pros say cloud, Big Data prompting radical IT shifts

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

The convergence of cloud computing and Big Data analytics are generating some radical rethinking about the way IT infrastructure is deployed, judging from the comments of early adopters who were interviewed at Hewlett-Packard Co.’s HP Vertica Big Data Conference last week. Several practitioners …

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