With more than a million customers and over 360,000 custom-designed physical servers deployed worldwide, France-based OVH is one of the world’s largest cloud service providers. Started in 1999, this French company has grown quickly. To learn more about their rapid ascent via their cloud strategy and their relationship with VMware, we spoke with Laurent Allard, OVH Vice-Chairman, and Nicolas Savides, VP of Strategy and Partnerships at OVH. Why have they…

In physics, centripetal force is the law of motion that helps an object safely negotiate a corner.  Railroad engineers and race car drivers live and die by this law, and if they pick up too much speed, the consequences can be catastrophic. Business has its own laws of motion, and though excessive speed may not lead to loss of life, the consequences can be just as real. Despite this, recent…

Our Question: Do most enterprises have an existing IT skill set to effectively realize the benefits of cloud computing, or do they utilize outside expertise?  If they utilize outside expertise, what type(s) of experts are most in demand? We reached out to key influencers to get their feedback and discuss. Responses: “Most enterprises have adopted some form of Cloud Computing engagement in the past 5 years which has driven demand…

BI and analytics have evolved—so should governance Modern BI has made self-service analysis possible and organizations have realized incredible benefits democratizing data and crowdsourcing new insights. Yet somehow the idea of self-service governance still seems inconceivable. Governance is necessary in modern analytics because data and dashboards are more widely shared but should enable data and content access rather than restrict it. These practices and processes help the right people access…