Jeff Vance

With any new hot trend comes a truckload of missteps, bad ideas and outright failures. I should probably create a template for this sort of article, one

No one in Redmond can be happy about the latest news out of Apple. Free operating systems? Free Office alternatives? Really? Has Apple lost its mind?

When your website has become a running joke on late-night talk shows, you know you have a problem. Yet, as CIOs move to cloud architectures, many are

Much has been written about NSA eavesdropping and the Snowden leaks, but one thing mostly lost in the cacophony of outrage, defensiveness and spin is the

Shadow IT – IT systems and solutions used inside companies without company approval – is here to stay, and that's a good thing. It means the business

Cyber-security and cyber-criminals are engaged in a constant arms race. The minute a software vulnerability gets patched or a security tool is able to

The cloud may not have quite reached maturity yet, but it's getting there. Plenty of businesses rely on the cloud for mission-critical applications, and

Hadoop and Big Data are practically synonymous these days, but as the Big Data hype machine gears up, there's a lot of confusion about where Hadoop

                Key Challenges to Big Data Analytics The challenge of Big Data is a daunting one. We all know that

If you follow cloud trends even lightly, chances are you've heard a good amount of hype about OpenStack. Recently, though, when I attended CA World in

If I were to tell you that 2013 was the year for cloud computing at Interop, I'd sound like a broken record. Haven't we heard this before, in 2009 and

Everyone knows that data volumes are growing exponentially. What’s not so clear is how to unlock the value all of that data holds. Enterprises are