Jeff Vance
Journalist and content-marketing consultant who regularly writes for Network World, CIO, Wired, Forbes, Datamation, and Startup50.com.
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....
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,...
Are Big Data Vendors Forgetting History?
With any new hot trend comes a truckload of missteps, bad ideas and outright failures. I should...
Microsoft’s Way Forward: Business and Consumer Cloud
No one in Redmond can be happy about the latest news out of Apple. Free operating systems? Free Office...
Building Better Clouds: Four Lessons from the Healthcare.gov Fiasco
When your website has become a running joke on late-night talk shows, you know you have a problem. Yet,...
Will the Snowden Leaks Hurt U.S. Cloud Providers?
Much has been written about NSA eavesdropping and the Snowden leaks, but one thing mostly lost in...
IT Departments: Stop Complaining about Shadow IT
Shadow IT – IT systems and solutions used inside companies without company approval – is here to...
Big Data Shakes Up Security (Which Isn’t Always Good)
Cyber-security and cyber-criminals are engaged in a constant arms race. The minute a software vulnerability gets patched...
Three Emerging Cloud Trends: Offshoring, Networking, Big Data
The cloud may not have quite reached maturity yet, but it's getting there. Plenty of businesses rely...
Six Hadoop Myths Exposed
Hadoop and Big Data are practically synonymous these days, but as the Big Data hype machine gears...
