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

As #HPEDiscover 2016 opens, the market asks ‘quo vadis?’

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

As Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) Discover 2016 opens tomorrow in the Venetian/Palazzo in Las Vegas, the big question hanging over it is: Quo Vadis HPE? Last month the company surprised the industry with the announcement that it would spin off its huge …

How the cloud and IBM Watson are helping breed a better guide dog

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

Big data is often touted as a tool for increasing quality and decreasing cost. Few people would think of it as a tool for breeding service animals. At Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and leading non-profit breeder and trainer …

OpenStack Summit on #theCUBE: A window into the future

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

OpenStack Summit 2016 kicks off this morning on theCUBE for a three-day run that will provide a window into the state, progress, and future of one of the seminal technologies driving the digital business revolution. In those three days, Wikibon Analysts Stuart …

Hadoop World: Big questions about Big Data’s future #HS16Dublin

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

Is the day of the pure Hadoop startups over? Are the big vendors, and in particular the cloud service providers, taking over Hadoop infrastructure? Will most Big Data production systems be built on infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platforms and use software-as-a-service (SaaS) analysis rather …

Oracle Cloud Machine moves closer to true hybrid model – Wikibon analyst

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

Public cloud, with its unlimited resources, high flexibility, and OpEx pricing model, is attractive to enterprises. But so far a variety of issues, including low latency requirements that cannot tolerate public Internet speed variations, geographic compliance issues and the cost of migration …

Big data market enters high growth phase, intersects with public cloud | #BigDataSV

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

Last week’s BigData SV/Hadoop-Strata 2016 event presented a market in ferment, with high growth supporting many new startups and attracting big vendors like IBM, Oracle and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE). TheCUBE, which has covered big data since the days when SiliconANGLE shared office …

EMC’s all flash VMAX an answer to extend hybrid VMAX, says Wikibon’s Floyer

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

EMC’s new VMAX all flash array (AFA) solves performance problems for IO constrained VMAX users. This, according to Wikibon CTO David Floyer in his latest Professional Alert. However, he writes, certain limitations of the VMAX AFA make it a tactical rather than a strategic solution …

Oracle’s new VSM7 fits the bill for mainframe hybrid cloud backup, says Wikibon

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

Oracle’s VSM7 hybrid cloud solution for mainframe backup offers low-access storage with services and an interface designed specifically for the needs of mainframes running large transaction processing workloads. And for one-tenth of a cent per gigabyte, it’s an order of magnitude cheaper than …

Wikibon offers prescription to make containers enterprise-ready

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

Containers have dramatically changed the ways in which application developers package and deploy software, initially in the cloud but soon in the enterprise as well. When combined with DevOps, microservices, and cloud-native applications, containers are revolutionizing the applications are designed, developed and managed …

Systems of intelligence to self-tune based on business objectives says Wikibon

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

Early adapters are deploying systems of intelligence that will integrate data lakes, machine learning, systems of engagement and systems of record, and will self-tune themselves to business objectives writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst George Gilbert. Wikibon’s big data community is talking about …

Bert Latamore

Latest from Bert Latamore

As #HPEDiscover 2016 opens, the market asks ‘quo vadis?’

How the cloud and IBM Watson are helping breed a better guide dog

OpenStack Summit on #theCUBE: A window into the future

Hadoop World: Big questions about Big Data’s future #HS16Dublin

Oracle Cloud Machine moves closer to true hybrid model – Wikibon analyst

Big data market enters high growth phase, intersects with public cloud | #BigDataSV

EMC’s all flash VMAX an answer to extend hybrid VMAX, says Wikibon’s Floyer

Oracle’s new VSM7 fits the bill for mainframe hybrid cloud backup, says Wikibon

Wikibon offers prescription to make containers enterprise-ready

Systems of intelligence to self-tune based on business objectives says Wikibon

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