Jeff Vance

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 Big Data products will reach $16.1 billion by the end of this year and hit $41.5 billion by 2018, growing six times faster than the overall IT market. Investors are […]

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 or a smart thermostat, but those applications just scratch the surface of how radically the Internet of Everything (IoE) movement could change modern life. Consider just two use […]

                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 refusing to reinvent the wheel and following the trails blazed by early adopters. Here […]

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. Okay, that’s a major oversimplification, but you get the general idea. Hadoop’s power is represented by the top-flight Big Data startups using it, such as Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR, which […]

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 extract more from their existing data stores, Big Data vendors are rushing in to provide a range of Big Data solutions, which comprise everything from database technology to visualization […]

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 extract more from their existing data stores, Big Data vendors are rushing in to provide a range of Big Data solutions, which comprise everything from database technology to visualization […]

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 is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is [cloud]? It’s complete gibberish. It’s insane. When is […]

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 worker understands almost by instinct, as the trend has been covered so extensively. Data has been growing exponentially in recent years, yet much of it is locked in application and […]

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 critiques fall into. First, a good deal of the commentary is predictable skepticism expressed by the lightly informed, such as David Brooks’ “What Data Can’t Do” column in The New […]

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 small cadre of programmers, computers were glorified word processors. Sure, some people used them for bookkeeping or to play solitaire, but word processing was the bread and butter for general […]