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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

Public, Private, Hybrid Cloud…What’s in a Name?

As it turns out, a lot. Recently, a growing number of suppliers have begun talking about hybrid clouds. The idea is that you can get the best of both cloud worlds. That is, the security, reliability and control of an on-premise solution …

Parting of the Clouds

Back in 2007, Wikibon warned its members to read the fine print in cloud SLAs. At the time we were discussing Google’s terms with enterprise customers when we stated: Google’s SLA terms do leave lots of wiggle room for the consumer giant …

Cloud Storage: Separating the Contenders from the Pretenders

Since 2006, when Amazon introduced its Simple Storage Service (S3), organizations concerned about security and service levels have been eagerly waiting for a viable marketplace of storage services to emerge. The industry lately has been doing sort of a replay of 1998-2001 …

NetApp’s Engenio Acquisition: A $2B Windfall for Investors

When NetApp bought LSI’s Engenio division, many questioned the merits of the move. After all, NetApp is the poster child for unified storage and has built a multi-billion dollar business around WAFL, the Write Anywhere File Layout. NetApp’s entire storage portfolio revolves around WAFL …

Customer Care in the Era of Big Data

How may I, in all servitude, be of assistance? A good friend of mine shared this story with me recently. It has major relevance to the big data trend that we’ve been covering and in particular the concept that we’re moving from …

The Hunt for Cloud Storage – Who’s Got Game?

Amazon AWS is a Slam Dunk There’s a battle going on between CEOs and their IT organizations. The CEO is saying “hey – I go home on the weekends, my kids are on Facebook storing pictures and videos for free, Gmail is …

Ten “Big Data” Realities and What They Mean to You

There’s been plenty of talk about big data lately and it’s finally spilling into the world of infrastructure. I’m not surprised. But there’s a lot of confusion and many frustrating misconceptions. I understand. It’s a confusing topic – especially to us infrastructure …

Cloud, Big Data and Cash: Why EMC is Still Undervalued

Is EMC the Next Big IT Whale? EMC is a thirty year old company that essentially created the storage systems business as we know it today. The company began with humble roots selling memory for minicomputers. Through many failures, perseverance, vision and …

The Truth About Enterprise Cloud Adoption

You’re Damn Right I Cloudwashed! In early 2009, members of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department from the University of California at Berkeley wrote a paper entitled “Above the Clouds, A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing.“ In that paper, the authors …

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