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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

Save 80% of Lifetime Ops Costs with Converged Infrastructure

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

Converged infrastructure can save CIOs about 80% of lifetime hardware operational, testing, and planning costs. That is the result of a new Wikibon study published by Wikibon CTO David Floyer. This figure is not specific to any one converged topology, and Floyer …

VMware Faces Uphill Fight in VDI Marketplace

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

VMware is an incredible company that has grown from nothing in the last decade to be a driving force in the revolution that is sweeping through IT. And Pat Gelsinger, who took over as CEO last year, is a true visionary who …

VDI Now!

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

One of the most important messages of VWworld 2013 to CIOs is you need VDI, not in 18 months, but now. And if you are not implementing VDI right now, be assured that at least some of your business units will be …

VMware Moves Up the Virtualization Stack #VMworld

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

If the question at the start of VMware 2013 Monday morning was where VMware was headed in the coming year, company CEO Pat Gelsinger has answered it: VMware is moving up the virtualization stack with tools and APIs to facilitate integration between …

CIOs Need a Corporate Plan for the Cloud

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

CIOs who do not have a corporate plan for getting maximum business advantage from the Cloud are dangerously behind the times, and those who think that nobody in their company is using Cloud services are in denial. That is the thrust of …

As VMworld Opens, Where is VMware Going?

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

As VMworld 2013 opens in San Francisco this morning, VMware dominates the virtualization vertical. But the big question that it needs to answer over the next three days is: How will it maintain that dominance, and where does it go from here? …

Ballmer Era Ends, Setting Microsoft Free

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

Yesterday’s surprise announcement of Microsoft CIO Steve Ballmer’s impending retirement should be good news for the company and for its fans if it also signals the end of his “One Microsoft” policy that has chained the company to the past exactly when …

Hypervisor Market Approaching Crossroads #VMworld

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

As VMworld 2013 opens, the hypervisor market is approaching a directional decision point. A lot is happening, with software-led networking, software-defined storage, and of course the perennial VDI all waiting in the wings while the market continues to digest server virtualization. Nearly …

Vertica the Bright Star in a Dismal Quarter for HP

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE13 YEARS AGO

Vertica is the one bright star in what otherwise is a dismal quarter for HP that saw CEO Meg Whitman warn of a no-growth fiscal year and announce a management shake-up in HP’s Enterprise Group, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly. …

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