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

How to Hack Infrastructure: Lessons from Enron and Switch

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

[Editor’s note: Wikibon co-founder and CEO David Vellante interviewed Jason Mendenhall, Executive VP of Switch (http://www.switchnap.com/) a co-location and cloud infrastructure provider, which has built the Super|Nap, the world’s highest density data center in Las Vegas. In this second of a series …

Switch and the Super|Nap: The Story of the World’s Highest Density Data Center

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

[Editors note: Wikibon co-founder and CEO David Vellante interviewed Jason Mendenhall, Executive VP of Switch (http://www.switchnap.com/) a co-location and cloud infrastructure provider, which has built the Super|Nap, the world’s highest density data center in Las Vegas. In this first of a series …

The Ideal Handheld — Tablet vs. Smartphone vs. PDA

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

While the Apple iPad certainly has kicked off a mobile computing boom since it was announced last April, it is increasingly apparent that it, and competing tablets modeled after it, are not the only mobile answer. The iPad is proving to be …

David Flynn Sees Flash as Memory, not Storage, and Created Fusion-io to Make It So

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

“You have to ask yourself, ‘What would I do if I had a system with terabytes of memory and didn’t have to wait for all the data cached in that memory to get restored after a power outage because the memory held …

EMC CIO Sanjay Mirchandani Talks About Virtualization from the CIO’s Perspective

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

Editor’s note: EMC CIO Sanjay Mirchandani took time out from WMworld 2010 recently to talk about virtualization at EMC with David Vellante, co-founder and CEO of online-consultancy Wikibon.org, on SiliconAngle.tv. The Q &A below was taken from the recording of the live …

Virtualization, the Cloud, and Mobile Computing Combining to Create Computing Fourth Wave

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

Virtualization, cloud computing, and mobile computing are combining to create a new wave of computing with tremendous implications for business. This new wave is user-centric, platform independent, and extremely flexible and responsive to business and consumer needs. Most of all, it is …

How Google Voice Upped its Game

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

When Google introduced Google Voice a few months ago it sounded pretty much like a Skype clone for Google users. After an initial flurry of interest, it seems to have been all but forgotten outside of the subset of Gmail subscribers who …

Heineken Netherlands Solves its Migration, Data Management Issues, Supports Virtualization with Compellent

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

With 140 breweries in more than 70 countries creating 200 million hector liters of beer and cider a year, including a large export business to the United States from the three breweries of its base in Holland, Heineken Netherlands is one of …

New-Generation Development Framework Changing the Game for Developer says VMware CTO Steve Harrod

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

New-generation development frameworks like VMforce (http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmforce.html), are changing the focus of software development and opening new opportunities for developers, says VMware CTO Steve Harrod. Interviewed on SiliconAngle.TV from VMworld2010 immediately after the announcement of VMforce, the new third-generation development platform being co-developed …

What is Wrong with IE6 – and Why Consumers and SMBs Should Leave it Behind

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

Facebook recently announced that it will stop supporting Internet Explorer 6 on its chat function with its next upgrade, planned for Sept. 15. With this move Facebook joins the German government and all the major security systems vendors in urging consumers and …

Bert Latamore

Latest from Bert Latamore

How to Hack Infrastructure: Lessons from Enron and Switch

Switch and the Super|Nap: The Story of the World’s Highest Density Data Center

The Ideal Handheld — Tablet vs. Smartphone vs. PDA

David Flynn Sees Flash as Memory, not Storage, and Created Fusion-io to Make It So

How Google Voice Upped its Game

Heineken Netherlands Solves its Migration, Data Management Issues, Supports Virtualization with Compellent

New-Generation Development Framework Changing the Game for Developer says VMware CTO Steve Harrod

What is Wrong with IE6 – and Why Consumers and SMBs Should Leave it Behind

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