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 market to become more integrated as it grows, analyst says

BIG DATA By BERT LATAMORE9 YEARS AGO

The big data and analytics market place will grow 27 percent overall in 2017, writes Wikibon Lead Big Data and Analytics Analyst George Gilbert. Growth will shift up the stack from hardware and infrastructure to analytics and applications, and the technology will …

Researcher sees Amazon facing new challenges as cloud market fragments

CLOUD By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services is growing at an incredible pace, driven mainly by greenfield software development both by enterprises and by software-as-a-service startups. That growth shows no signs of slowing, but the cloud market is expanding in two significant new directions in which …

IBM expands partner program focused on cloud and cognitive

CLOUD By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. has broadly expanded its channel support program to focus on security, cloud and cognitive computing. The expansions include more than 40 competencies that will help partners build expertise in high market growth areas, and an agreement with VMware Inc., that …

Big data strategies must include mainframes, analyst says

BIG DATA By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

Mainframes cannot remain an island separate from big data. Mainframe data is too valuable and central to the business to be left isolated, particularly when companies start using analytics to answer core business questions that will guide digital businesses in the future. …

CrowdChat dramatizes shift in attitude about hybrid cloud

CLOUD By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

What exactly is a “hybrid cloud”? What is the state of hybrid cloud today, and what is the vision for its future? These were the central questions debated by the Wikibon community and a panel of experts in the #HybridCloud CrowdChat last …

Packaged machine learning apps can put businesses ahead of the curve

BIG DATA By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

Systems of record such as enterprise resource planning software accumulate huge amounts of valuable data that can become the basis for better business decisions. Realizing that value, however, requires applying machine learning to that data. It’s best not to rely on ERP …

Forget the data scientists, go with pre-packaged machine learning, says Wikibon’s Gilbert

WIKIBON By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

Wikibon Big Data and Analytics Analyst George Gilbert has good news for companies struggling with advanced analytics: They do not need a data scientist. Instead, they can use pre-packaged generic machine learning applications designed to answer specific business questions such as determining …

Creative management group joins with IBM on global copyright platform

CLOUD By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

The Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music and IBM Corp. today announced a 10-year alliance to develop a platform on the IBM Cloud to manage payments of residual fees to musicians and other artists and their publishers in the digital …

Emerging machine learning pipeline should simplify application development, analyst says

BIG DATA By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

A machine learning “pipeline” – similar to the pipeline for traditional business intelligence – is emerging. It should, in theory, enable developers to pick components off of a “Chinese menu” of building blocks, writes George Gilbert, big data & analytics analyst at the …

Analyst expects big data industry to address complexity in 2017

BIG DATA By BERT LATAMORE10 YEARS AGO

Big data has been around for a decade, yet production big data analysis systems that extract business value are scarce. The problem is complexity at multiple levels, and in 2017 the industry will start addressing those complexities, writes Wikibon Big Data & Analytics …

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Latest from Bert Latamore

Big data market to become more integrated as it grows, analyst says

Researcher sees Amazon facing new challenges as cloud market fragments

IBM expands partner program focused on cloud and cognitive

Big data strategies must include mainframes, analyst says

CrowdChat dramatizes shift in attitude about hybrid cloud

Packaged machine learning apps can put businesses ahead of the curve

Forget the data scientists, go with pre-packaged machine learning, says Wikibon’s Gilbert

Creative management group joins with IBM on global copyright platform

Emerging machine learning pipeline should simplify application development, analyst says

Analyst expects big data industry to address complexity in 2017

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