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

Hadoop/hBase Big Data Market Booming, Says Cloudera CEO

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

Big data is booming, says Cloudera CEO Mike Olson. Hortonworks is “doing great work along with us and many others in driving the Hadoop platform forward,” he said in an interview webcast live in the Cube from hBaseCon2012 over at SiliconAngle.tv (see …

IT Shifting from Nuts and Bolts to Services, Says GlaxoSmithKline [Video]

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

IT is in a transition towards being a service manager says Robert P. Mattie II, director of services integration at GlaxoSmithKline, “and cloud is a good start in the shift to services.” Business users are getting used to finding their own applications, …

EMC to Integrate Avamar, Data Domain to Create End-to-End Solution

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

EMC is focused on providing an end-to-end hardware/software data protection system, says EMC BRS Division President William “BJ” Jenkins. To do that,” he said on The Cube from EMC World 2012 on Monday, May 21, “it is going to move toward integrating its …

Informatica Evolving into Big Data Management Suite

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

With its new version 9.5, Informatica takes a big step in its evolution from a data-integration point-solution to a comprehensive data management suite for big data, says Wikibon Analyst Jeff Kelly in his latest Alert, “Informatica 9.5 Focus on Big Data Maturity.” …

Oracle Exadata/Exalogic Not Selling With Good Reason, Says Analyst

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

Oracle’s Exadata and Exalogic systems are more expensive and provide less performance and interconnectivity, writes Wikibon Co-founder and CTO David Floyer in “The Limited Value of Oracle Exadata”, the first of two new Alerts on the products. In the second, “Oracle Exadata …

BU Medical School Combines EMC Isolon, Actifio Backup to Capture, Backup, and Archive Big Data

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

When John Meyers, Ph.D., came to the Boston University School of Medicine as a medical researcher, he stepped into a chaotic data environment. “Servers were under lab benches. Irreplaceable repositories of years worth of data resided on NAS boxes on lab benches …

Automated Tiered Storage Providing Cost Savings, Risk Reduction [Report]

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

A just-published study by Wikibon CTO David Floyer and Analyst Nick Allen finds that Automated Tiered Storage (ATS) is being adopted by midrange companies, many of whom are taking on an aggressive policy of ATS adoption following their positive early experiences. The …

U.S. Government issues Warning of Specific Malware Exploit at Overseas Hotels

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

Software update notices at overseas hotels may actually be attempts to infect travelers’ laptops with malware warns the U.S. government’s Internet Crime Complain Center (IC3). In a recent Intelligence Note, the IC3 says travelers’ attempting to connect to Internet hotspots in overseas …

SAP, Oracle, Windows All Run Fine on VMware at James Hardie

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

Three years ago the IT shop at James Hardie Building Products had not yet hit the wall, but it could see the wall ahead in terms of space and power requirements to support steady business growth. So, said Steve Killan, enterprise server …

SAN Cheaper than DAS for Most Exchange Installations

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE14 YEARS AGO

SAN is less expensive than DAS for all on premise Microsoft Exchange installations with more than 500 seats, or that are likely to grow above that level, or installations of any size that require high availability, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in …

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Latest from Bert Latamore

Hadoop/hBase Big Data Market Booming, Says Cloudera CEO

IT Shifting from Nuts and Bolts to Services, Says GlaxoSmithKline [Video]

EMC to Integrate Avamar, Data Domain to Create End-to-End Solution

Informatica Evolving into Big Data Management Suite

Oracle Exadata/Exalogic Not Selling With Good Reason, Says Analyst

BU Medical School Combines EMC Isolon, Actifio Backup to Capture, Backup, and Archive Big Data

Automated Tiered Storage Providing Cost Savings, Risk Reduction [Report]

U.S. Government issues Warning of Specific Malware Exploit at Overseas Hotels

SAP, Oracle, Windows All Run Fine on VMware at James Hardie

SAN Cheaper than DAS for Most Exchange Installations

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