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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.

Latest from Bert Latamore

What is EMC’s VFCache Good For?

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

EMC’s VFCache announcement Monday is a major departure from the vision of the flash memory startups such as Fusion-IO. The question is, what is VMCache good for, and is it more than just an attempt by EMC to freeze the market and …

DRAM will Remain Too Expensive to Compete with Flash

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

In his latest article on how persistent flash memory will disrupt the IT architecture in the era of real-time, IO-centric big data processing, Wikibon CTO David Floyer looks at the issue of “Real-time IO Centric Processing for Big Data.” The article focuses …

Node.js, Flash Technology Opens Door to Undreamed of Applications

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

The combination of fast development using next generation languages such as NODE.js, big data, and a five-layer IT architecture combining processors with flash storage backed up by the latest advanced disk archiving systems will allow companies to do exciting things, says Wikibon …

This is the Start of the Big Data IO Era

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

For a year Wikibon CTO David Floyer has argued that flash memory is a disruptive technology. But to be disruptive a technology needs to make entirely new processes or applications that have major real-world implications possible, not just make existing ones faster …

HP and webOS – What’s the Next Step?

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

One major missing piece from  last week’s webOS announcement is any hint of what HP itself might do with webOS. HP does promise continued support, which might mean that it will rehire the recently laid-off webOS development team. That would certainly be good …

The webOS Opportunity for RIM and the Overall Market

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

webOS is a promising technology with great potential that until now has suffered from bad luck. Palm’s last great innovation, introduced before the iPad,  could have been a competitor to the iOS. But Palm lacked the resources, and HP has lacked the …

Microsoft Taking Big Risks with Windows 8

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

A new year is coming, and Microsoft is promising a new tablet and laptop OS, Windows 8. That should be exciting news, but the real question is whether anybody will care. Microsoft has been trying to freeze the market with leaks and …

Why the webOS Tablet Is a Non-Starter for HP

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

HP CEO Meg Whitman has announced that in the next two weeks the company will decide what to do with webOS. She also, curiously, said that HP needs “another operating system”, which begs the question: Why? HP already has Windows, Linux, and …

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