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

Collaboration tools central to business value of SaaS

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

One of the largest advantages offered by SaaS, IBM’s new SaaS study found, is the increase in collaboration it can support both inside an organization and outside, with its supply chain partners. IBM’s collaboration tools, on the IBM Connections platform, including a …

IBM survey shows close IT-LOB partnership produces maximum SaaS benefit

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

A newly released IBM global survey with 879 respondents shows that not only are companies of all sizes taking up SaaS, but that those with an overall cloud-computing strategy and a close partnership between IT and line-of-business (LOB) leaders get the maximum …

Is the x86 server ready for open source? #CIOAngle, #OCPSummit

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

This week theCUBE covered the Open Compute Project Summit (#OCPSummit). As the name implies, this conference is part of the open source movement, but with a twist. When most people hear “open source” they think software — Linux, OpenStack, KVM and other …

Microsoft rocks OCP, IO links OCP to OpenStack #OCPSummit

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

Microsoft rocked the cloud and hyperscale world when it joined the Open Compute Project at Open Compute Summit V on Tuesday, writes Wikibon co-founder and CTO David Floyer in a recent article entitled “Microsoft Joins OCP and Contributes Cloud Management Software and …

IBM, Lenovo reassure System x customers of seamless transition

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

Following their joint announcement this morning that IBM was selling its entire System x line to Lenovo, executives from both companies participated in a media call focused on reassuring customers that the companies plan a close ongoing partnership and seamless transition. The …

IBM System x sale — brilliant move or strategic mistake

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

In a Breaking Analysis segment in theCube discussing the joint announcement by IBM and Lenovo of the $2.3 billion sale of System x today, Wikibon CEO David Vellante, CTO David Floyer, and Principal Research Contributor Stuart Miniman disagreed on the wisdom of …

IBM charts its course as a cloud service provider #The CIO Angle

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

IBM kicked off the new year in dramatic fashion, setting its direction for 1014 and beyond last week with three dramatic announcements, including the commitment of more than $2 billion in funding, and that direction is directly into the heart of the …

IBM announces $1.2B cloud investment

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

In its third major announcement this week, IBM today announced a $1.2 billion investment in expansion of its global private cloud network including the construction of 15 more data centers, bringing the total to 40, and doubling the capacity of its SoftLayer …

IBM announces revolutionary System x generation with modular design, 12 TB flash on memory bus

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

IBM today announced a complete redesign of its System x x86 server family, featuring up to 12.8 Tbytes of NAND flash directly on the memory bus of the server and a modular design that allows users to upgrade the server by simply …

ServiceNow leaves IT service management giants scurrying to catch up

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

ServiceNow has overturned the IT service management (ITSM) market, leaving financial industry naysayers who shorted its stock scrambling, along with such traditional ISTM vendors as BCM Software, HP, CA and IBM, writes Wikibon Cofounder and CEO David Vellante in “ServiceNow: Redefining Enterprise …

Bert Latamore

Latest from Bert Latamore

Collaboration tools central to business value of SaaS

IBM survey shows close IT-LOB partnership produces maximum SaaS benefit

Is the x86 server ready for open source? #CIOAngle, #OCPSummit

Microsoft rocks OCP, IO links OCP to OpenStack #OCPSummit

IBM, Lenovo reassure System x customers of seamless transition

IBM System x sale — brilliant move or strategic mistake

IBM charts its course as a cloud service provider #The CIO Angle

IBM announces $1.2B cloud investment

IBM announces revolutionary System x generation with modular design, 12 TB flash on memory bus

ServiceNow leaves IT service management giants scurrying to catch up

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