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

New Software-Based Solutions Can Boost VM Performance Without Expensive Hardware

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

Storage performance has become a major issue in virtual environments, writes Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe. The normal answer — flash server cards and arrays — are an expensive fix, particularly when they replace perfectly good disk systems. This year several vendors have …

International Auctioneer Cuts Servers from 35 to 8, Saves 40% with Red Hat, IBM and Acronis

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

Bonhams auction house, a British-based international organization that has sold thousands of priceless antiques worldwide for more than 200 years, has been able to cut the total number of servers in its New York and San Francisco locations from 35 to 8 while …

IBM’s Now Factory Acquisition Latest Step in Aggressive Big Data Expansion

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

IBM today announced its intent to acquire Dublin-based The Now Factory, a privately held big data analytics company serving communications service providers (CSPs). The announcement comes days after its joint announcement with Deutsche Telekom of their collaboration to provide the IBM MobileFirst …

EMC Releases ViPR, Supports EMC and NetApp, Structured and Graph Data

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

EMC has announced general release of ViPR, its software-defined storage system (SDSS) initially promised at EMCWorld 2013 in May and pre-announced at an event in Barcelona in early September. ViPR features support for EMC VMAX, VNX, Isilon, VPLEX, and RecoverPoint and for …

YarcData Announces Major Update to NoSQL Engine

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

YarcData, a NoSQL data engine vendor subsidiary of Cray Inc., has announced a major upgrade to its Urika Big Data analytics appliance, based on graph analytics. It also announced alliances with BI tools vendors Centrifuge Systems and TIBCO as well as Hadoop-based analytics leader Cloudera. The …

Oracle, Citrix, and Tableau, What is the Next Acquisition Target? #OOW13

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

Oracle is many things, and one of them, as Wikibon Chief Analyst and Co-Founder David Vellante is fond of saying on TheCUBE this week from Oracle OpenWorld 2013, is a huge cash generator. As Vellante says, it generates almost as much free …

IBM, Clustrix Say Oracle In-Memory Wrong Approach #OOW13

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

Larry Ellison is famous for shaking up the IT industry. Now at the opening to Oracle OpenWorld 2013 he seems to have done it again with his announcement of In-Memory analysis for Oracle’s Oracle 10c database. Readers can see live analysis and discussion …

Violin Reintroduces GridIron Storage Appliance

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

Violin has reintroduced what appears to be the GridIron OneAppliance TurboCharger Storage Appliance, renamed the “Maestro Memory Appliance”, developed originally by GridIron, which Violin purchased in January, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer. However, Violin’s description is so fragmentary, possibly because the company …

CIOs: Consider Using Consultants, Cloud Services to Achieve Big Data Value

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

Nearly 50% of Big Data practitioners replying to a recent Wikibon survey report disappointing results from their Big Data projects, and an unfortunately 2% report total failures, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly. While companies generally expect $3-$4 of business value …

Oracle OpenWorld — 2013 or 1993? #OOW13

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

As the ironically named “Oracle OpenWorld 2013” looms, the big question is: How much longer can Oracle ignore the huge changes that are happening in the IT industry? And will Larry Ellison allow any concessions to the present realities of cloud, mobile, …

Bert Latamore

Latest from Bert Latamore

New Software-Based Solutions Can Boost VM Performance Without Expensive Hardware

International Auctioneer Cuts Servers from 35 to 8, Saves 40% with Red Hat, IBM and Acronis

IBM’s Now Factory Acquisition Latest Step in Aggressive Big Data Expansion

EMC Releases ViPR, Supports EMC and NetApp, Structured and Graph Data

YarcData Announces Major Update to NoSQL Engine

Oracle, Citrix, and Tableau, What is the Next Acquisition Target? #OOW13

IBM, Clustrix Say Oracle In-Memory Wrong Approach #OOW13

Violin Reintroduces GridIron Storage Appliance

CIOs: Consider Using Consultants, Cloud Services to Achieve Big Data Value

Oracle OpenWorld — 2013 or 1993? #OOW13

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