Jeff Vance

Journalist and content-marketing consultant who regularly writes for Network World, CIO, Wired, Forbes, Datamation, and Startup50.com.

4 Big Data Strategies IT Should Steal from Marketers

Big Data is on the rise, with analysts and pundits almost unanimously predicting rapid adoption and growth. IDC, for one, predicts that the market for...

How Will the Internet of Everything Change Us?

What are you doing to prepare for the Internet of Everything? If you’re like most, probably not a lot. Early adopters may have installed smart light bulbs...

5 Big Data Apps with Effective Use Cases

                Even if your organization is compelled to become more data-driven, many don’t know how to transform themselves out of the use-your-gut mentality and into a data-first one. The easiest way? Take shortcuts by...

Hadoop Makes a Big Data Splash

Hadoop has become nearly synonymous with Big Data. It’s the database engine that distributes and manages workloads in a way that makes Big Data possible....

Choosing a Big Data Solution: Seven Steps

Also see: How to Choose a Big Data Solution (video roundtable) Clearly, choosing a big data solution isn’t easy. As companies of all sizes try to...

Choosing a Big Data Solution: Seven Steps

Also see: How to Choose a Big Data Solution (video roundtable) Clearly, choosing a big data solution isn’t easy. As companies of all sizes try to...

Will Cloud Computing Live Up to Its Hype?

It seems like just yesterday when the cloud skeptics were out in force, saying things like this, “The computer industry is the only industry that...

Big Data Calls for Big Storage

You can’t dig into Big Data storage without first discussing Big Data in general. Big Data is a concept that any IT professional or knowledge...

Fear of Big Data

As with any trend that comes on too fast and too strong, Big Data is experiencing pushback. There are four neat categories most of these...

Is There a Big Data Bubble?

Are we on the brink of another Netscape moment? Back in 1995, Netscape’s IPO started inflating the dotcom bubble. Before Netscape, for all but a...

Cloud Computing in 2014: Three Key Trends

Cloud computing was clearly a big winner in 2013, and it will clearly remain in the forefront in 2014. In 2014, though, we’ll hear less about the...

2014: The Year of Big Data Leaks

The past year was a good one for Big Data, mostly. Hadoop became a household word (among techie households, that is). Venture capital firms poured money into...

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