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.

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Windows 7 Driving Virtual Desktop Into the Enterprise says Raj Mallempati

Businesses are facing a desktop IT dilemma, VMware Director of Product Marketing Raj Mallempati said in an interview with David Vellante, CEO of Wikibon.org, and John Furrier, CEO of SiliconAngle.com, on www.siliconangle.tv from VMworld 2010. Their immediate problem is that they are facing an expensive, time and resource consuming migration to from Vista and XP ...

Virtualization Offers Opportunity at All Levels of the Stack says Todd Nielsen

The new wave of IT virtualization is certainly driving huge growth for VMware, which has added 1,500 employees so far in 2010. But the important thing to realize is that this is not just a boom for a few companies, says VMware COO Todd Nielsen. “This is an opportunity for everyone at all levels of ...

Virtualization/Cloud Tsunami Will Impact the Entire Technology Stack says EMC President

The new wave of virtualization and cloud technology will have a much larger impact than previous waves, even than the PC revolution, in part because the IT industry is larger now and is much more deeply integrated into every aspect of business, and also because it will disrupt every level of the IT technology stack, ...

Storage Virtualization is the Other Part of the Equation for Efficiency and Flexibility says NetApp CEO

“Virtualization isn’t just about servers; it has huge implications for storage,” NetApp (www.netapp.com) President & CEO Tom Georgens said in an interview on SiliconAngle TV (www.siliconangle.tv) from VMworld 2010 in San Francisco. “We moved a huge amount of our resources in that direction five years ago, and that is why we are so successful today. ...

Cloud Computing Becoming Hybrid, Shifting from Cost Saver to Mobile Business Enabler says EMC MOZY Head

Cloud computing should be seen as a mobile business enabler rather than primarily a cost control strategy says Charlotte Yarkoni, general manager of EMC MOZY (https://mozy.com/about) and senior VP of cloud services for EMC. Speaking on SiliconAngle TV from VMworld 2010 in San Francisco Monday, she said that the last two years have seen a ...

VMware is Key to Delivering Highly Responsive IT on a Tight Budget Worldwide for West Pharma

Need your IT infrastructure to be highly responsive while on a tight budget in a worldwide environment? Virtualization, and specifically VMware, is the key says James Houston Sr., director of enterprise infrastructure services at West Pharmaceutical Services (http://www.westpharma.com/na/en/Pages/default.aspx). West Pharmaceutical is a global manufacturer of drug delivery systems, mostly focused on injectable drugs such as ...

Flexibility is Key to Success for Peak 10, and Virtualization is the Foundation of Flexibility

Understanding customer needs is the basic skill required for success in the cloud services marketplace says Jeramiah Dooley, director of manged services for Peak 10 (http://www.peak10.com). Speaking on SiliconAngle TV (www.siliconangle.tv) from VMworld 2010 in San Francisco, he said, “I have been in so many situations in which other service providers have come in and ...

VMWorld 2010: Virtualization, Cloud Storage to Simplify, Cut Cost of Data Protection says FalconStor’s Jim McNiel

Storage virtualization, cloud storage, and solid-state storage are coming together to reduce the complexity and cost of data backup and recovery and, for large enterprises with petabytes of data, make data protection practical again, says Jim McNiel, VP and Chief Strategy Officer of FalconStor. “Historically, doing backup was creating a file and putting it on ...

Apple’s Control-Freak Attitude Rolls On

Steve Jobs and Apple Computing have an incredibly controlling attitude toward the iPhone and iPad. The people who buy those devices may think they own them, but Jobs and Apple determine what can and cannot be on them, and so what you can and cannot do with them. In the latest move in this strategy, ...

Forrester Says 14% of U.S. Consumers Plan to Buy Slate Computers This Year

Apple is selling iPads as fast as it can make them. Forrester is predicting that 14% of Americans will be carrying tablets of one kind or another by year's end. Obviously mobile computing is the place to be both for retailers and B2B companies, and SMBs need to get onto this horse or be left ...