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

EMC’s DSSD purchase legitimizes low-latency storage

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

EMC’s purchase of flash storage startup DSSD, a venture EMC and SAP partly funded, has legitimized the very low latency storage marketplace, writes Wikibon Cofounder and CTO David Floyer in “EMC to acquire DSSD”. Developed by storage OS engineers Jeff Bonwick and …

EMC World a must see in storage | #EMCworld2014 | #CIOAngle

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

EMC World 2014 is the largest event in storage, and growing. Forty percent of this year’s attendees are new to the conference, and 165 journalists and 105 analysts are attending. EMC dominates the storage industry and is expected to make a series …

IBM turning the corner at Impact | #IBMImpact2014

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

IBM has bet its future on cracking the high growth business cloud services market dominated by Amazon Web Services (AWS). At February’s IBM Pulse 2014, it announced its 100 percent realignment behind this make-or-break effort. At the just completed Impact 2014 it …

The cost of migrating to new storage arrays hikes prices 54%, adds complexity

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

The cost of migrating to a new storage array adds about 54 percent to the price of the new array and involves complexities including application downtime, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in “The Cost of Storage Array Migration in 2014”. This discourages …

The mainframe dinosaur roars at 50 | #CIOangle

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

IBM’s System z mainframe is celebrating 20 years of double-digit growth in annual installed capacity, driven by the Internet and mobile computing. System z mainframes process 30 billion business transactions daily and up to 150,000 transactions a second in peak loads. Not …

IBM Impact promises insight into IBM cloud progress | #IBM Impact | #CIOangle

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

If IBM Pulse in February was about IBM’s strategic realignment around a cloud services strategy built around SoftLayer, Impact promises insights on IBM’s progress in building presence in the cloud market dominated by Amazon Web Services (AWS). And while it is not …

IBM Announces Cloud App Store for the Enterprise | #IBM Impact

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

IBM kicks off Impact 2013 this morning by announcing the first cloud service marketplace for the enterprise, a single place on the IBM Cloud where customers can see all the SaaS, major infrastructure pieces and developers’ tools available on IBM SoftLayer. The …

Server SAN boosts MySQL performance by 3X

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Companies can increase MySQL performance by 3 times by using the new Linux Atomic Write and NVM compression extensions in a Server SAN configuration, attaching flash storage either through PCIe or DIMM and eliminating SCSI code designed to support slow spinning disks, …

SolidFire expands into Asia-Pac

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

All-flash storage system vendor SolidFire has announced the opening of an Asia-Pacific office in Singapore and the expansion of its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) team. The new and expanded offices will support its growing number of international customers, both companies …

Watson becomes everybody’s personal shopper

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

IBM’s cognitive computing platform, Watson, will become your personal online shopping concierge thanks to an alliance between IBM and Fluid Inc., announced today. The Fluid Expert Shopper (XPS), built on Watson, will absorb vast quantities of product information and match online shoppers …

Bert Latamore

Latest from Bert Latamore

EMC’s DSSD purchase legitimizes low-latency storage

EMC World a must see in storage | #EMCworld2014 | #CIOAngle

IBM turning the corner at Impact | #IBMImpact2014

The cost of migrating to new storage arrays hikes prices 54%, adds complexity

The mainframe dinosaur roars at 50 | #CIOangle

IBM Impact promises insight into IBM cloud progress | #IBM Impact | #CIOangle

IBM Announces Cloud App Store for the Enterprise | #IBM Impact

Server SAN boosts MySQL performance by 3X

SolidFire expands into Asia-Pac

Watson becomes everybody’s personal shopper

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