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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.

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Microsoft Announces Major Upgrades to Hyper-V at TechEd 2012

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

Microsoft announced major upgrades to Hyper-V to make it competitive with VMware at TechEd 2012, June 11-14 in Orlando, writes Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in his latest Alert, “Virtualization, Cloud and Mobility are in Abundance at TechEd 2012”.  In the first of …

Open Source is a Game of Partnerships, Bigger than Competition

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

“Open Source is an interesting game,” says Hortonworks Co-founder and CTO Eric Baldeschweiler. “Employees who leave you are working feverishly to make your products better. Your competitors are working feverishly to make your products better. So we are looking for win-wins and …

PayPal Sees Need for Both RDBMS, Hadoop

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

Big data and therefore Hadoop are at the center of many important processes within 15-year-old PayPal, says the Internet bank’s Director of Engineering Anil Madan. But that does not mean that he sees any decrease in the importance of traditional RDBMS applications. …

Apache Cassandra Meets Hadoop at DataStax

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

“This whole Hadoop thing is really catching on,” says Matt Pfeil, Co-Founder and VP of Customer Solutions for DataStax, the company behind the productization of Apache Cassandra. Cassandra, Pfeil explained in an interview in the SiliconAngle Cube at Hadoop Summit 2012, is …

Hortonworks Focused on Making Apache Hadoop Enterprise-Ready

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden opened the Hadoop Summit 2012 show his company is sponsoring with a message of cooperation rather than competition and said his company’s goal remains developing Apache Hadoop into a enterprise-ready technology platform. Asked by John Furrier in an …

Cloud Provider Combines High Security and Efficiency on Dell Backbone

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

“Security is a challenge for every cloud provider,” says Alex Rodriguez, VP of Systems Engineering and Product Development for Pittsburgh-based communications and cloud service provider Expedient Communications. “You are asking clients to trust you with their critical applications and data.” Expedient builds …

Your Complete Guide to Hadoop: Issues, Ecosystem and More

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

Is your company interested in Hadoop? Want to look like an expert to your boss? Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly has published a comprehensive assessment of the state of Hadoop and the five Hadoop vendors, focusing on the major remaining issues …

Dell Force10 Champions Network Virtualization

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

Data networking switches have traditionally been huge boxes that “are about rigid networking, think mainframe,” says Arpit Joshipura,  head of networking product management and marketing for Dell Force10 Networks. Dell is bringing a new, more flexible and less expensive vision to the …

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