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

Caching in Flash the Wrong Approach Argues Hybrid Storage Vendors

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

“Caching data in flash is not the right approach,” said hybrid storage vendor Tintri CEO Kieran Harty at the start of a panel discussion in the Cube at VMworld 2012. “Ninety-nine percent of reads and writes should be on flash with only …

SSD Storage, Virtualization Demand Converged Infrastructure says HP’s Nunes

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

“When you look at what flash is doing to storage and how virtualization changes the data center, how can it not be converged?” asked HP VP of Storage Marketing Craig Nunes in the Cube at VMworld 2012. “Otherwise you are still trapped …

NetApp Misses the Strategic Direction with Read-Only Flash Cache

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

NetApp’s August 21 Flash Accel read-only flash cache announcement is good as far as it goes, but it is a tactical product that misses strategic direction, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in his latest Professional Alert, “NetApp adds Server Flash Cache to …

Wake Up Call: VMware Must Move Beyond the Usual Suspects for New Storage Ideas

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

The just-published Wikibon vSphere 5 adoption survey holds good news for EMC but a warning for VMware. Market interest in traditional storage vendors is waning, and while companies are not leaving their primary vendor, they are looking hard at innovative “hybrid” storage …

VSphere 5 Takes Big Step in Integrating Storage Management

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

As virtualized environments move from trials to production environments and grow across data centers, integrating storage management with virtualization layer managers, and specifically vSphere, has become a vexing issue. With vSphere 5, VMware has tried to solve this problem with some success …

VSphere 5 Adoption Higher than Expected, 88% of Users Happy [Report]

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

A just-published Wikibon survey of vSphere users with a focus on virtualizing storage found greater adoption rates for vSphere 5 than expected and found most respondents happy with the new version. In his summary of the results, posted on the Wikibon site, …

Wikibon Survey Shows Growing Interest in Alternative Hypervisors

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

The Wikibon survey on virtualization, although focused on vSphere adoption and VMware use in general, also provides some evidence of growing interest in other hypervisors among VMware users, says Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in his new Alert “VMware’s hypervisor hold may be …

VMware Users Still Favor FC over NFS, 10 G Ethernet Survey Shows

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

VMware has always tried to remain agnostic toward storage area network (SAN) protocols, writes Wikibon Analyst Stuart Miniman in his Professional Alert “VMware vSphere 5 Users Move Beyond the Storage Protocol Debate”. Wikibon’s just published 2012 VMware user survey did, however, ask …

VDI Could be a Killer App App for Converged Infrastructure, but That’s No Guarantee of a VDI Hockey Stick

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

Judging from the latest figures on what is running on converged boxes, VDI could be the killer app for converged infrastructure products writes Wikibon Analyst Stuart Miniman in his latest Professional Alert, “Is VDI the Killer App for Converged Infrastructure”. Some 70% …

CloudPhysics Works Big Data for Managing Complex, Virtual Environments

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

Data center virtualization creates compelling financial advantages mainly by increasing average server utilization from an average of 15% in non-virtualized environments to 85%+. However, it also has created increasingly complex environments as virtualization grows in data centers in which the addition of …

Bert Latamore

Latest from Bert Latamore

Caching in Flash the Wrong Approach Argues Hybrid Storage Vendors

SSD Storage, Virtualization Demand Converged Infrastructure says HP’s Nunes

NetApp Misses the Strategic Direction with Read-Only Flash Cache

Wake Up Call: VMware Must Move Beyond the Usual Suspects for New Storage Ideas

VSphere 5 Takes Big Step in Integrating Storage Management

VSphere 5 Adoption Higher than Expected, 88% of Users Happy [Report]

Wikibon Survey Shows Growing Interest in Alternative Hypervisors

VMware Users Still Favor FC over NFS, 10 G Ethernet Survey Shows

VDI Could be a Killer App App for Converged Infrastructure, but That’s No Guarantee of a VDI Hockey Stick

CloudPhysics Works Big Data for Managing Complex, Virtual Environments

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