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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

Sick of hearing about it @PDAguerrilla

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

As an e-book reader and advocate going back 15-plus years, I am getting thoroughly sick of hearing about the wonderful heft and smell and feel of physical books. Every time I hear a discussion (usually a podcast) someone waxes poetic about the …

Fusion-IO, EMC take early Xflash lead

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

Xflash, low-latency (microsecond to nanosecond) server SAN storage (LoLaSeS) storage, is the last unfilled segment of the NAND flash market, writes Wikibon Co-founder and CTO David Floyer in “Enabling Real-time Big Data Processing with Xflash – Very Low Latency Server SANs.” This …

IBM, Marist College testing instant long distance VM transfer

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

IBM and Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, are testing a system they codeveloped to support near-instant network reconfiguration to allow dynamic movement of VMs over long distances between data centers in emergencies. The methodology, which requires a software-defined network, allows network administrators …

Automate Management of Your Cloud for Efficiency, Agility

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

Businesses of all sizes with private or hybrid clouds, and particularly smaller organizations, should automate provisioning and management of their cloud resources to increase flexibility and efficiency, writes Consultant Amy Bishop in “Maximize the Private Cloud with Automation Strategies“. Although she does …

Battle is joined in flash storage | #TheCIOAngle

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

A war is waging in the storage industry and the skirmish is shaping up between large established players as well as upstarts. The new battleground is flash storage. Industry giant IBM made an acquisition to enter the business (Texas Memory Systems) while …

IBM, Nvidia Announce Partnership Around Power Servers

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

IBM and high-end GPU processor manufacturer Nvidia have announced a partnership to accelerate the floating point processing of IBM’s high-end Power Systems servers with Nvidia Tesla GPU chips. This will be the first time that the Nvidia GPUs, popular in high-performance computing …

Scale up or scale out – the choice depends on the need

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

In his latest professional Alert, “Business Needs Dictate the Importance of Scale Up vs Scale Out Storage”, Consultant and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe makes an important point that is often lost in the discussion of new online architectures, Big Data, and other …

Got server sprawl? Consider a mainframe. The CIO Angle

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

Reality today for many midrange-to-enterprise level IT shops is a “one of everything” environment that demands lots of individual attention, and, in increasing numbers of cases, a data center that is running low on power, cooling, and space. Server virtualization can help …

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