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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

AWS builds business on hyper-specialization @re:Invent

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

The use of standardized commodity hardware, with software adding all the value, is generally seen as one of the key components of the hyperscale architectures used by the very large cloud service providers such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo! AWS, however, uses …

Hadoop pure-play vendors face major challenges in 2014

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

Customers are confused about the business models, and particularly the Hortonworks model, in the Hadoop market, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly in “Hadoop Pure-Play Business Models Explained”. The main source of this confusion comes from a misunderstanding of where Hortonworks …

CloudStack, OpenStack, AWS-stack : Which stack?

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

Since the Hong Kong Design Summit, speculation about the future of the public and private cloud platform market, and specifically OpenStack, has been rampant, writes Wikibon contributor and SolidFire Director of Strategic Alliances David Cahill in “Stack Wars: Playing all year at …

VMware VSAN creating buzz around hyperconverged infrastructure

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

VMware’s release of the first beta of its VSAN virtualization software for server-based flash storage and disks is creating a surge of interest in hyperconverged infrastructure, writes Consultant and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in “VMware VSAN vs the Simplicity of Hyperconvergence”. Although …

SDS no ticket to cheap hardware

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

Software-defined storage (SDS) is not the end of hardware warns Consultant and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in “Software defined Storage Does Not Mean the End of Hardware Costs“. Actually, most vendors, including Scale Computing, Nutanix and SimpliVity, only offer SDS either as …

Built-in hardware telemetry means better service for ITOs

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

CIOs should insist on built-in data telemetry on system performance in any new data arrays they buy, writes Consultant and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in “CIOs Should Require Analytics As part of Vendor Infrastructure Support“. Advanced telemetry is a mainstream trend in …

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