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

Impala Expands Real-Time Query in Hadoop, Empowers SQL BI, Visualization Tools

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

Impala changes the equation for Hadoop, giving users answers to their queries in seconds rather than hours, says Cloudera CEO Mike Olson in the Cube at the Strata/HadoopWorld 2012 conference. His chief scientist, Jeff Hammer, agrees, saying that Impala is the first …

Wikibon’s Floyer Finds Long-Term Strategic Sense in HP Flash Partnership Shift

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

HP’s move to freeze its current relationship with flash storage provider Violin where it is, in favor of a strategic direction toward software-led storage based on 3PAR, may seem a step back from a focus on flash on HP servers. However, writes …

IBM’s PureSystems Combines Advantages of Single SKU Integrated Systems with Flexibility of Full Customization

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

Most of the new data-center-in-a-box unified systems fielded in the last two years fit somewhere along a continuum between fully pre-defined and unchangeable but highly integrated systems and highly configurable but less well integrated choices on the other end. IBM PureSystems, says …

Data, Like Daisies, Has a Lifespan and Should be Chucked When it Wilts, Says Consultant Randy Kahn

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

Like everything else, information has a lifespan, and just like a beautiful bouquet of daisies, when it gets old and wilts, when it has no further business value and is past any compliance retention dates, it should be thrown out, says Randolph …

Records Management’s Failure Costs Companies Millions

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

In the excitement about Big Data, what is being missed is that large enterprises are actually drowning in Petabytes of historical data, both structured and unstructured, generated by internal systems from ERP to e-mail, says consultant, lawyer and records management expert Randolph …

CIOs Face Big Data Inflection Point

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

CIOs are facing a major inflection point in the adoption of Big Data, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly and Chief Analyst and Co-Founder David Vellante in their latest Wikibon Professional Alert. Legacy data warehouses and business intelligence (BI) systems have …

Users Rate Data Growth Tops in Sleepless Night Category

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

What IT issues give CIOs the most sleepless nights? Vendors seem to think that the Cloud, mobile, and social computing are the top concerns of IT. But a Wikibon/ServicesAngle survey of 216 IT professionals found that “data growth” and “excessive data growth” …

New Switches, Servers Driving Evolution to 10 Gb E

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

While the excitement, and most of the press, in data center and in particular networking technology is focused on virtualization and the emerging Software-Led Infrastructure, hardware still matters, writes Wikibon Networking Analyst Stuart Miniman in “The Value of Adapters in a Software-Led …

NetApp, Flexpod, VMware Make Business Possible for Fast Growing Travel Insurer

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

In mid-September travel insurer and emergency assistance provider Seven Corners shut down its last non-virtualized server and reached 100% virtualization from data center to desktop. It had to do that, says company CIO George Reed at the NetApp Customer Day in AT&T Park …

Scott Lowe Defines Backup/Recovery Best Practices for Very large Oracle Databases in Face of Increasing Virtualization

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

The march of virtualization out of test/dev environments and through peripheral systems to increasingly encompass tier 1, business-critical environments, including huge Oracle databases, is changing the face of backup and recovery writes Wikibon Analyst, independent consultant and former CIO Scott Lowe in …

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Latest from Bert Latamore

Impala Expands Real-Time Query in Hadoop, Empowers SQL BI, Visualization Tools

Wikibon’s Floyer Finds Long-Term Strategic Sense in HP Flash Partnership Shift

IBM’s PureSystems Combines Advantages of Single SKU Integrated Systems with Flexibility of Full Customization

Data, Like Daisies, Has a Lifespan and Should be Chucked When it Wilts, Says Consultant Randy Kahn

Records Management’s Failure Costs Companies Millions

CIOs Face Big Data Inflection Point

Users Rate Data Growth Tops in Sleepless Night Category

New Switches, Servers Driving Evolution to 10 Gb E

NetApp, Flexpod, VMware Make Business Possible for Fast Growing Travel Insurer

Scott Lowe Defines Backup/Recovery Best Practices for Very large Oracle Databases in Face of Increasing Virtualization

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