Bert Latamore, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Switch from spreadsheets to cloud financials helps 75-year-old engineering firm navigate challenging economy

By Bert Latamore Apr 3, 2015

A year after Albert Cuisinot (below left) took over as CFO for Degenkolb Engineers in 2011, the 75-year-old structural engineering firm faced a business crisis. The 2008 financial collapse did not immediately impact its income.…

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Wikibon predicts Big Data market to top $61B in 2020

By Bert Latamore Apr 2, 2015

Wikibon has extended its “Big Data Vendor Revenue and Market Forecast, 2011-2020” through 2020 and has estimated a 40 percent market growth in 2014, down from 60 percent in 2013. In his executive summary of…

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Wikibon urges enterprise CIOs to adopt a hybrid cloud manifesto

By Bert Latamore Apr 1, 2015

Enterprises are turning to hybrid cloud strategies in response to often-fragmented cloud efforts that have seen one group in the IT organization build private clouds on top of virtualized environments while others move existing…

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Wikibon: Oracle ZS4-4 storage appliance tops SP2 price/performance

By Bert Latamore Mar 30, 2015

Based on the latest SP2 performance benchmarks and time-adjusted pricing for competitive systems, the Oracle Corp. ZS-4-4 storage appliance displays by far the best price-performance with high overall raw performance (see chart on right).…

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Wikibon sees flash storage driving revolutionary business change

By Bert Latamore Mar 30, 2015

Moving to an all-flash data center, in conjunction with a cloud-enabled converged architecture, can cut the typical large data center’s operations budget by one-third over the next five years (see graph at right), creating…

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IBM to open customer centers for software-defined network simulation

By Bert Latamore Mar 26, 2015

IBM today announced Network Innovation Centers in Nice, France, and Dallas, where IBM clients can work with software-defined networking (SDN) and automation technologies from multiple providers on simulations of their network environments and typical…

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IBM/Softlayer announces block and file storage service with guaranteed QoS

By Bert Latamore Mar 25, 2015

IBM today announced a block and file storage service for its Softlayer subsidiary aimed at both traditional large vertical-stack enterprise applications and new highly transactional, customer-facing cloud applications. What differentiates this new service is…

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How cloud-based accounting revolutionized a CPA business

By Bert Latamore Mar 24, 2015

A client first turned CPA Jason Blumer on to Xero in 2012. That moment revolutionized his 12-year-old business. Back then, Blumer & Associates CPAs was a typical small CPA firm, mostly using spreadsheets and…

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Why an insurer chose IaaS over a major hardware refresh

By Bert Latamore Mar 13, 2015

When Noel Catrambone joined insurance holding company Kingsway Financial Services Inc. as CIO in 2012, he faced a rebuilding situation. Originally a Canadian-based company and still traded on the Toronto as well as the New…

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Wikibon view: Open Source NoSQL database vendors face a long, hard slog

By Bert Latamore Mar 11, 2015

Open Source NoSQL database startups like MongoDB Inc. face “a long, hard slog” to achieving success despite the strong interest in these companies in the financial community, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly. In…

Bert Latamore

Switch from spreadsheets to cloud financials helps 75-year-old engineering firm navigate challenging economy

Wikibon predicts Big Data market to top $61B in 2020

Wikibon urges enterprise CIOs to adopt a hybrid cloud manifesto

Wikibon: Oracle ZS4-4 storage appliance tops SP2 price/performance

Wikibon sees flash storage driving revolutionary business change

IBM to open customer centers for software-defined network simulation

IBM/Softlayer announces block and file storage service with guaranteed QoS

How cloud-based accounting revolutionized a CPA business

Wikibon view: Open Source NoSQL database vendors face a long, hard slog

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