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

Big Data Can Drive Your Business

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE15 YEARS AGO

Big data is about driving your business, providing an optimized experience to each customer, and eliminating the impediments that create customer dissatisfaction, says ClickFox CEO Marco G. Pacelli. “We talk to business owners, senior VPs of retail or customer service…people who own …

Open Source is the Future of Software Says MIT Prof. Mike Stonebraker

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

Open Source is the future of the software industry for one overwhelming reason that few people really understand – its vastly more efficient marketing strategy, MIT Prof. Mike Stonebraker told Wikibon.org co-founder and CEO David Vellante in an interview on SiliconAngle.TV from …

Bit.ly Data Scientist Hilary Mason Spills the Beans at Strata

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

“I think we need to change the way we think of the word ‘search’,” bit.ly Data Scientist and self-defined “data geek” Hilary Mason told David Vellante and John Furrier on SiliconAngle.TV at the Strata Conference in early February (see here for the full …

The Enterprise Cloud is About Infrastructure Provisioning, says Cisco Evangelist James Urquhart

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

What cloud computing means for a business depends in large part on economics, C-Net blogger and Cloud Computing Evangelist James Urquhart told SiliconAngle.tv at the Strata Putting Data to Work Conference February 1-3 in Santa Clara. See the full interview below, or …

Big Data Excites Marco Pacelli Because All the Answers are There

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

Big data excites Clickfox Founder and CEO Marco Pacelli. “All the answers are in the data,” he said over SiliconAngle.tv from the 2011 Strata Making Data Work Conference, and that will revolutionize the products and services businesses deliver and how they deliver …

Greenplum’s Yara Tells Strata Conference “We Need More Startups”

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

In his keynote speech Thursday, Greenplum Co-Founder Scott Yara told a packed house at the first ever Strata “Making Data Work” conference, “We need more startups!” Afterwards, in an interview on SiliconAngle.tv, he expanded on that theme. “Back when the Web was …

SiliconANGLE Exclusive: Abhi Metha Announces Big Data Analysis “Factory” Builder Tresata

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

Former Bank of America executive, MIT Media Lab Executive in Residence, and big data pioneer Abhi Metha announced the launch of Tresata, his latest venture, on SiliconAngle.TV Tuesday, February 2. Metha cofounded Tresata to develop a tool set and framework for building …

Data: the Next State of Computer Economy Evolution, says Tim O’Reilly

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

Data, and specifically very large databases, are the new sources of competitive advantage, says Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, and one proof of that is the sold-out initial Strata, Making Data Work Conference that his organization has created. “If …

Big Data Can Drive Your Business

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

EMC Focused on Building Private, Public, and Hybrid Clouds over a Virtualized Environment

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

EMC is sending a hybrid cloud message to the industry with its mid-January announcements, says company President and COO Pat Gelsinger. “What we’re trying to do is help IT build clouds. We call those private clouds. We are also trying to take …

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Latest from Bert Latamore

Big Data Can Drive Your Business

SiliconANGLE Exclusive: Abhi Metha Announces Big Data Analysis “Factory” Builder Tresata

Big Data Can Drive Your Business

EMC Focused on Building Private, Public, and Hybrid Clouds over a Virtualized Environment

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