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

#SparkSummit East wrapup: Big demand for evolving technology

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

The Apache Spark analytics engine is still immature, and this year’s Spark Summit East was more of a technology than a business conference. But Spark is also generating huge enthusiasm, and not just from techies. IT organizations and even non-technical business people, …

Watch #SparkSummitEast on theCUBE for real-time coverage of real-time Hadoop

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

This week theCUBE goes to Apache Spark Summit East 2016 (#SparkSummitEast) for two days of continuous coverage today from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET and tomorrow from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.. Coming just 44 days after the January 4 release of …

Wikibon sees true private cloud promise emerging in converged infrastructure

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

For IT organizations to compete against public cloud services they must deliver services to end-users that duplicate the basic advantages of the public cloud, including business user self-service access to logical resource pools of compute, network and storage optimized for lower-cost operations. …

Why is the private cloud market so much smaller than public cloud? Wikibon explains

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is 3.5 times the size of the true private cloud market, based on Wikibon’s recently released “Private Cloud Market Sizing and Forecast for 2015-2026” (premium subscription required for full report). Given that internal IT organizations increasingly compete with …

Oracle’s storage vision promises next-generation advantages, says Wikibon

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Oracle has enunciated a vision for its storage cloud that focuses on lower cost basic storage along with advanced management that can bridge on premise and the Oracle public cloud. It includes automated backup to the Oracle Storage Cloud and full support …

Wikibon analyst praises Oracle appliance for private clouds

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Oracle has been building what it calls Engineered Systems – basically appliances – since it purchased Sun Microsystems Inc. in 2010. Over the years it has built out the industry’s most comprehensive application portfolio, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer (right) in “Oracle Database …

NetApp ONTAP migration value often marginal, says Wikibon

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Wikibon is advising clients that migrating existing databases to new stand-alone storage systems is often of marginal value at best. Specifically, Wikibon CTO David Floyer writes, Oracle Corp. customers using NetApp, Inc.’s, ONTAP 7-Mode storage should carefully assess migration options before moving …

Software-defined protection eases backup woes, says Wikibon

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Data protection is broken, and IT organizations need new, software-defined solutions, said Wikibon Chief Analyst David Vellante in a recent CUBEconversation (see video below). Data is growing at exponential rates, driven by the Internet of Things (IoT), machine-generated data and new Systems …

Preparation demands new rigor in Big Data age, says Wikibon analyst

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Preparing data for analysis in the age of Big Data, with multiple data types and sources and severe time restraints, are radically different than traditional extract, transform load (ETL) procedures that have existed for a long time. For Big Data, the pipeline …

Add inline analytics to systems of record to create data-driven business, says Wikibon

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE11 YEARS AGO

Enterprises can realize transformativel business advantages by streamlining their existing systems of record and adding inline analytics, including predictive analytics and modern decision management systems. This creates a coherent and agile new operating model that Wikibon calls “systems of intelligence.” The resulting …

Bert Latamore

Latest from Bert Latamore

#SparkSummit East wrapup: Big demand for evolving technology

Watch #SparkSummitEast on theCUBE for real-time coverage of real-time Hadoop

Wikibon sees true private cloud promise emerging in converged infrastructure

Why is the private cloud market so much smaller than public cloud? Wikibon explains

Oracle’s storage vision promises next-generation advantages, says Wikibon

Wikibon analyst praises Oracle appliance for private clouds

NetApp ONTAP migration value often marginal, says Wikibon

Software-defined protection eases backup woes, says Wikibon

Preparation demands new rigor in Big Data age, says Wikibon analyst

Add inline analytics to systems of record to create data-driven business, says Wikibon

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