Stories by Jeff Vance

6 secrets to a successful BYOD rollout

The very notion of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) makes many CIOs and IT managers nervous. BYOD represents a loss of control, additional security risks, and, of course, the unknown. Here are six things to prepare for:

Written by Jeff Vance17 Sept. 12 14:15

Cloud's commodity pricing squeezes service providers, creates opportunities

Cloud service providers are already starting to feel downward price pressures as basic capacity and services are quickly becoming commodities. A price wars heat up, the excess capacity that providers need for peak traffic can become a drag on profits, but it also represents new opportunities.

Written by Jeff Vance27 Aug. 12 14:11

Will tech industry ever fix passwords?

After the recent security breach that hit professional social networking site LinkedIn, social media companies are scrambling to patch over their poor security practices. Wait too long to address known security holes, and CIOs should worry about seeing their companies targeted, hacked and eventually vilified in the press.

Written by Jeff Vance16 July 12 20:32

7 steps to social media stardom

Social media is taking up more and more of our time, both at home and work. Many enterprises have even started to treat social media tools as mission-critical, meaning that if you don't start mastering them, your lack of knowledge could impede your career.

Written by Jeff Vance25 June 12 04:40

What you really need to know about Cloud security

Despite all of the hand wringing over cloud security, major Cloud security breaches haven't been grabbing headlines. The past year has seen major breaches, such as the ones that hit Sony and Epsilon, but we haven't heard much of an emphasis about the Cloud being a weakness.

Written by Jeff Vance19 June 12 00:20

Five key Interop 2012 takeaways for CIOs and other IT pros

Big trade shows like Interop can be confusing. So many vendors, so much noise, so much spin, so little clarity. Searching for technology trends among the tchochke seekers, spokes-models and aggressive PR reps can feel like a hopeless task.

Written by Jeff Vance15 May 12 01:29

How the Cloud democratises and complicates disaster recovery

Cloud computing is slowly upending the disaster recovery market. Only a few years ago, disaster recovery meant one of two things: For large organisations, it necessitated huge capital investments; for the mid-market on down, it meant backing up only the most important data to tape and shuffling it off to a secure location.

Written by Jeff Vance12 April 12 10:56

Big Data torpedoes sales forecasts, can Cloud tools fix the problem?

At the end of any quarter, the last thing CFOs want to hear is that more than half of forecasted sales did not close. Unfortunately, this scenario is quite common. CFOs blame sales staffs for faulty forecasts, while sales teams try to shift the blame to IT for not giving them the right tools to turn fuzzy forecasts into actionable data.

Written by Jeff Vance04 April 12 07:23

Warning: you may be an e-hoarder

Hoarding shows are popular these days. Hoarders, Hoarding: Buried Alive, Confessions: Animal Hoarding and on and on. The images are consistent: Boxes stacked to the ceilings. Piles of newspapers dating back to the Nixon era. Feral cats skittering behind furniture. Empty cans of cat food, beans and soup scattered everywhere.

Written by Jeff Vance05 March 12 22:33

How the Cloud cuts VC dependencies and democratises entrepreneurship

Back in the fall of 2000, the buzz at the Internet World conference centered on two things: the NASDAQ meltdown and a number of acquisitions. One of the big acquisitions announced at the show was HP's deal to purchase Bluestone Software for $450 million.

Written by Jeff Vance01 March 12 02:38

The future of malware

Personal information belonging to a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/092111-massachusetts-data-compromised-251099.html">full third of Massachusetts residents has been compromised</a> in one way or another, according to the state's attorney general, citing statistics gleaned from a tough new data breach reporting law.

Written by Jeff Vance03 Oct. 11 21:32
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