Dave Vellante

David Vellante is co-CEO of SiliconANGLE Media, as well as co-founder and Chief Analyst of The Wikibon Project, the world’s leading open source IT research community. Dave is a long-time tech industry analyst, entrepreneur, writer and speaker. He is co-host of theCUBE – “The ESPN of Tech.” He is also a co-founder of Crowdspots, an angel funded startup based in Palo Alto using big data techniques to extract business value from social data. Prior to these exploits Dave ran a CIO consultancy and spent a decade growing and managing IDC’s largest business unit. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and four children where he serves as the President of his town’s local “Kiddie Sports” association. Dave holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Union College.

Latest from Dave Vellante

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How digital events should work in the age of coronavirus

We’re going to take a break from our traditional spending assessments and share with you our advice on how to deal with the coronavirus crisis — specifically best practices in shifting your physical event to digital. The team at theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s video studio, is in active discussions with more than 20 companies that have ...
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The VMworld 2019 IT spending survey: containers, cloud, NSX and Pivotal

The VMworld 2019 information technology spending survey data shows that while customers continue to invest heavily in VMware Inc.’s products, organizations are doubling down on their public cloud commitments at the expense of incumbent on-premises infrastructure. In addition, the battle for market share amongst enterprise tech companies is heating up as share gains are the most obvious ...
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As Oracle’s pioneering database machine Exadata turns 10, an exclusive look ahead

In the winter of 1984, four executives from California, wearing suits and ties, presented to a group of market analysts in a smoke-filled boardroom in Framingham, Massachusetts. From a startup called Teradata Corp., the executives were unveiling under a nondisclosure agreement a new “Database Computer” that connected to the backend of an IBM Corp. mainframe ...
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As UiPath nets big funding, exploring the impact of robotic process automation

The forerunners of robotic process automation have been around for well over a decade in various forms such as Lean, Six Sigma and business process automation. But the leading companies in these fields didn’t really catch the attention of most observers. The same narrative is not being written for RPA — quite the opposite, in ...
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After limping through chapter one of cloud computing, IBM aims to own chapter two

In 2013, IBM Corp. got a wakeup call when it lost an important cloud computing deal at the Central Intelligence Agency to Amazon Web Services Inc. IBM protested the contract, exposing previously confidential details. In a high-profile decision, Judge Thomas Wheeler ruled against IBM despite the apparent higher bid submitted by AWS. The bottom line: ...
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IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat is a pivot to growth, but many questions remain

IBM Corp.’s acquisition of Red Hat Inc. is a blockbuster designed to accelerate the company’s lagging sales. Here’s a first take on what it means for IBM, Red Hat, the ecosystem and customers. Despite strong IT spending, there were storm clouds on the horizon for both IBM and Red Hat: IBM’s strategy generally and its ...

Veritas: the best-kept secret everyone has heard of

Often on theCUBE we have the pleasure of hosting guests who are so knowledgeable that you just want to go back and watch the videos over again. Recently, at the Veritas Vision event in Las Vegas, we had a chance to sit down with just such an individual: Bill Coleman, chief executive of Veritas. Coleman is ...
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The API economy: DevOps, cloud and infrastructure as code

We’re entering the next wave of cloud. Most chief information officers tell Wikibon: “I can’t simply reshape my business and stuff it into the cloud, rather I need to bring the cloud operating model to my business.” When we analyze the market for emerging cloud models we use Figure 3 from our True Private Cloud ...

CIOs: Don’t rush to AI to solve IT operations management problems

At Friday’s Wikibon Weekly Research Meeting, we discussed applying artificial intelligence and machine learning at the discipline of information technology operations management. But before jumping on the latest trend, we suggest three things that chief information officers should consider before jumping into the hype. For background and summary, let’s review the operations management problems IT ...

Serverless computing: It’s all about functional stateless microservices

In between meeting with customers, crowdchatting with our communities and hosting theCUBE, the research team at Wikibon, owned by the same company as SiliconANGLE, finds time to meet and discuss trends and topics regarding digital business transformation and technology markets. We look at things from the standpoints of business, the Internet of Things, big data, application, cloud ...