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

In the New Consumer World, VDI Must Deliver to Multiple Platforms

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

“We are living in a new world where Windows no longer is the only choice, it is just one choice,” says Vittorio Viarengo, vice president of end-user computing for VMworld. “Windows will be around for a long time,” he said in an …

Flash Storage Will Fix the Storage Access Time Problem

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

One of the main issues of storage is slow data access times, basically caused by the limitations of spinning disks, which must be searched sequentially at a speed determined by their spin rate. As disk capacities have grown while disk speeds have …

SocialCast Builds Communications Supporting Geographically Dispersed Operations

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

Business has changed, and SocialCast is working to create the new communications streams businesses need to support that new operational reality, says Tim Young, CEO of the social media communications startup recently acquired by VMware. “Even 10 years ago, businesses would design …

HP Refocus Will Get Little Return on PC Branch Sale

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

David Cahill does not like HP’s stategic announcements last week. In a new Professional Alert posted Friday on Wikibon he picks the announcements apart and provides what he maintains are better choices. First he predicts that in the present market HP will …

The Disruptive Nature of NAND Flash Storage Explained

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

Flash storage, on everything from large, high speed servers to laptops, is a major technology disrupter that will replace high-speed SAS disk systems on servers and disk drives in laptops and desktop PCs. It is already making inroads in those markets, with …

Erasure Coding – The New Approach to Data Archiving

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

Long term data archiving is a major problem for businesses of all sizes and market areas, but particularly for those who operate under regulatory environments that require long-term archiving of fairly large amounts of data such as business e-mails and other communications. …

How to Get Around Apple’s Anti In-App Rules: HTML5

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

Wikibon’s financial commentator Gerald Hallaren has posted a short piece outlining how publishers can use HTML-5 to get around Apple’s requirement that e-book and other e-publishing apps use the App Store to sell publications, and pay 30% of the price to Apple, …

Cloud Computing Not Always Cheaper: Zynga Case Study

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

Consultant David Cahill has published a ground-breaking case history of online game developer Zynga, famous for such games as “Farmville”, with a focus on how it handles the huge volumes of valuable data it harvests from the games. What makes this a …

Bert Latamore

Latest from Bert Latamore

In the New Consumer World, VDI Must Deliver to Multiple Platforms

The Disruptive Nature of NAND Flash Storage Explained

How to Get Around Apple’s Anti In-App Rules: HTML5

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