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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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Server SAN poised to disrupt storage markets

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Server SAN, software-defined storage directly attached to commodity servers, will disrupt the storage market, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in “The Rise of Server SAN”. In the hyperscale server provider marketplace, it is core technology for services such as Amazon’s S3, EC2 …

Hyperscale whitebox network architectures becoming accessible for some

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Google’s publication of its Andromeda network stack and the market introduction of hardware-independent network switch operating systems from Cumulus Networks and others is making hyperscale networking based on white box switches more practical for at least of subset of enterprises, writes Wikibon …

VCE passes $1B with 50% year-to-year growth

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

The sometimes underestimated VCE alliance of VMware, Cisco and EMC had 50% year-over-year growth in 2013 and surpassed $1B in annual revenues. It has 800+ customers in 57 countries and has sold 1,700 Vblocks. That growth verifies Wikibon’s forecast that converged infrastructure …

Big Data needs more cloud-based managed services

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Despite its strong association with the cloud, most Big Data deployments are in private data centers, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly in “For Big Data to Thrive in the Cloud, More Managed Services Required”. This creates a couple of issues. …

CIOs: Plan mega-datacenter migration now

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Every two or three years Wikibon CTO and Co-Founder David Floyer writes a piece of research that defines the next major strategic shift in CIO thinking. Last week he published the latest of these, “Mega-Centers are the Future”. In it he presents …

Mega-Datacenters to revolutionize IT as we know it

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

Within 10 years most medium-to-large companies, including the largest enterprises in the world, will have closed their internal data centers and moved all their computing to large colocation/IaaS centers run by companies like Amazon AWS and IBM, writes Wikibon Co-founder and CTO …

AWS ignites the business cloud services market

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

In my earlier column I raised the question of whether AWS would expand into the traditional enterprise computing area. This week’s announcements at the AWS Summit in San Francisco answered that question with an emphatic “Yes!” And IBM, EMC and HP will have …

Mobile market in flux

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE12 YEARS AGO

With all the news about Big Data and cloud services, the mobile market has taken a back seat in the news and probably in the minds of many CIOs in recent months. But mobile remains important, both as a major driver of …

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