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

Hortonworks Wants an Enterprise-Ready Hadoop, says CTO [Video]

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

The recent changes at Hortonworks, which saw Eric Baldeschwieler move from CEO to CTO and Rob Bearden become CEO, were routine and do not indicate any change in the company’s dedication to developing open source Hadoop into a full, enterprise-ready tool, Baldeschwieler …

Hadoop Ecosystem Going Mainstream: A $50 Trillion Future [Video]

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

Last year was the year of validation for Hadoop, when the endorsements by a growing list of vendors and users showed that it was for more than a toy for Yahoo, Google, Facebook, and Twitter, says Tresata Founder and Big Data Visionary Abhishek …

1010data Provides Big Data Analysis in the Cloud with the Trillion Row Spreadsheet

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

1010data (pronounced Ten-ten data) is a SaaS big data management and analysis provider created by two former Wall Street analysts in 2000, before either Software-as-a-Service or big data existed as industry terms. It has more than 200 blue-chip customers in finance, retail, customer …

Hadoop, HBase Changing the Economics of Data Says Cloudera CEO Mike Olson

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

Hadoop and HBase have changed the economics of data, Cloudera CEO Mike Olson said on a SiliconAngle.tv live webcast from the O’Reilly Strata 2012 conference. “When we talk to customers, one of the measurements we talk about is return per byte of …

The Actual Figures Behind Potential HP Gen8 Savings

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

HP’s Project Voyager announcements last week of a new generation of servers and storage with advanced management automation were focused tightly on solving real data center operations problems and, in the process, saving money in the operations budget. Now Wikibon CTO David Floyer …

Gen 8 Rethinks Storage to Solve Basic Data Center Issues, Says HP

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

The Gen 8 servers represent a complete rethinking of server and storage hardware design, incorporating some 600 new patents to solve many of the most common and most expensive customer pain-points in data center operations said Mark Potter, SVP and General Manager …

Small Touches Make a Big Difference in ProLiant Gen 8 Servers

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

HP’s services group partnered with the hardware group on the two-year effort to design the ProLiant Gen 8 hardware. Specifically this means extensive automation, 1,500 built-in sensors, and other design elements focused on improving reliability, HP and channel partner service responsiveness, and …

EMC VFCache Interesting but Limited, Says Wikibon Community

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

The Wikibon community sees EMC’s VFCache, announced Monday, as interesting but limited and in large part an effort by EMC to freeze the market, in this case for flash PCIe cards in servers, at least among EMC users. That is the take-away …

A Closer Look at the Implications of EMC’s VFCache: Join the Live Discussion

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

Tomorrow at noon EST (9:00 A.M. PST) the Wikibon community will convene in a Peer Incite titled “Squinting through the Glare of Project Lightning” meeting to discuss the implications of EMC’s announcement of VFCache, aka “Project Lightning”, a unique PCIe server flash …

Bert Latamore

Latest from Bert Latamore

Hortonworks Wants an Enterprise-Ready Hadoop, says CTO [Video]

Hadoop Ecosystem Going Mainstream: A $50 Trillion Future [Video]

1010data Provides Big Data Analysis in the Cloud with the Trillion Row Spreadsheet

The Actual Figures Behind Potential HP Gen8 Savings

Gen 8 Rethinks Storage to Solve Basic Data Center Issues, Says HP

Small Touches Make a Big Difference in ProLiant Gen 8 Servers

EMC VFCache Interesting but Limited, Says Wikibon Community

A Closer Look at the Implications of EMC’s VFCache: Join the Live Discussion

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