Jeff Vance

                Key Challenges to Big Data Analytics The challenge of Big Data is a daunting one. We all know that data is exploding, but just how much data is out there? No one is certain, but former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has argued that we now create an […]

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 late April, I encountered a lot of OpenStack skepticism. One Citrix executive spun it like this: “OpenStack gets the PR; CloudStack gets the P.O.s.” Of course, since this was […]

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 2010 (okay, hardly anyone attended those years) and certainly the past two years? Rest assured, I’m not going to claim that 2013 is the year […]

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 struggling to figure out how to store, manage and derive any real business value from Big Data. Part of the problem is that traditional databases just aren’t suited for mining […]

Judging from the hype—and from the very real benefits—you’d think that cloud computing would be a mainstream enterprise technology by now. It’s not. It’s getting there, but adoptions rates are uneven from industry to industry and from country to country. There are still plenty of businesses out there that don’t trust the cloud, don’t think […]

The rising interest in big data — mining reams of data to help predict outcomes — is affecting many areas of modern life. Could this data-driven approach even help you win your March Madness pool? Consider my story. One glorious year back in 2001, my March Madness office bracket was a pristine sheet of victory. […]

In our virtual world, many of us spend more time emailing, chatting and communicating over social media than actually talking to people face to face. Think about it: how many people do you know who you have entirely virtual relationships with? For me, it’s a decent number. As major life events move online – weddings, […]

For many enterprises, the safest on-ramp to cloud computing is to build a private cloud. Private clouds don’t have as many security, compliance and data-ownership challenges as public ones, but they are not risk free. Legacy environments, cost overruns and application performance can all undermine your private cloud initiatives. That doesn’t mean you should rethink […]

As organizations move more of their IT infrastructure and applications into private clouds, they are entering into uncharted territory. The roadmap isn’t always clear, and it’s easy to make mistakes – mistakes that in hindsight look obvious, but which can be hard to predict if you lack experience with cloud infrastructures. However, this isn’t completely […]

After reading the headline to this story, you’re probably thinking to yourself “acceptance”? Isn’t BYOD about deployments and management? Isn’t it about policies and risk mitigation? Sure, but it’s also about accepting the fact that we’re already beyond the BYOD point of no return. The five stages of BYOD adoption eerily mirror Kubler-Ross’s five stages […]