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More on Light Peak: Very high data rate from the grid to your computer

March 4, 2010

Intel Corporation’s Light Peak technology is an new optical communication capability that will be a universal connector for almost all commodity IT.  It is designed in about the same form factor as a USB cable, and it will be replacing everything that USB cables are used for today.  But its incredibly high data rates...
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7 Differentiators of Notion Ink’s Adam Tablet

March 3, 2010
7 Differentiators of Notion Ink’s Adam Tablet

In mid February, Notion Ink released completed specs on their Adam tablet (here).  It did not receive the attention that Steve Jobs did with the Apple iPad, but in my estimation it is the far superior device.   Apple has the ecosystem to back...
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Wanted: World Class Best Enterprise CTO

March 2, 2010

One of the great technological treasures of the nation is the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon. For 25 years they have created software engineering processes, constructs and solutions for enterprises in and out of government. You probably consider them synonymous with...
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Presentation at 2010 WIRe Conference

February 25, 2010

The World Intelligence Review (WIRe) held its 2010 Conference Feb 24-25 (see: https://thewireconference.com ).  I was allowed to provide some thoughts to the folks gathered there and used the...
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Enhancing IT Support to the Counter Terror Effort: Design Criteria

February 24, 2010
Enhancing IT Support to the Counter Terror Effort: Design Criteria

This is the concluding post on enhancing IT innovation in support of the Counter Terror effort.  The first part focused on the challenge and importance context relevant to design...
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Enhancing IT Support to the Counter Terror Effort: The Challenge

February 22, 2010

Several specific and new requirements have been given to the national security community as part of the White House review of security and intelligence systems following the...
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A CTO’s favorite list of lessons from the Miracle of the 1980 Olympics

February 19, 2010
A CTO’s favorite list of lessons from the Miracle of the 1980 Olympics

I’ve previously posted the below, but it has been over a year and it is a favorite story so what they heck, this is a great story of leadership,...
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Twelve Principles of DoD Cyber Conflict

February 13, 2010

While rummaging through old files on my hard drive I encountered a piece I wrote in June 2002 which captured in writing something I had been briefing for several...
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Oracle, Sun and the Enterprise CTO

February 6, 2010

The CTOvision.com assessment of the Oracle Acquisition of Sun: This is positive for the enterprise IT across the board, but the biggest determinate of what it means for your...
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Larry Ellison on the Sun-Oracle Close, January 27, 2010

February 6, 2010

The clip below is Larry Ellison giving some context on the Oracle Acquisition of Sun.  His mantra: complete, integrated, focused on business value for customers. I have more context and...
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The iPad is the Ultimate Thin Client

February 2, 2010

In my earlier post, when I railed against the iPad, it was mostly personal disappointment and letdown.  I was disappointed by the technical specs, most notably the aspect ratio,...
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A Reaction to the iPad

January 28, 2010
A Reaction to the iPad

WOW.  What a letdown.  I can not believe that this was the subject of endless hype.  Here are the quick stats (if you haven’t found them somewhere else). A4 1GHz...
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Google Apps: They keep adding cool features

January 28, 2010

While the entire tech world seemed focused on Apple during the iPad rollout, Google just kept serving in silence, keeping the innovation engines running without distraction. I sure enjoyed the...
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A CTO Analysis of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Speech on Internet Freedom

January 23, 2010

On 21 January 2010 Secretary of State Clinton delivered a speech on the topic of Internet Freedom. This is a very good presentation of policy worth a complete read...
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Current Internet Explorer security flaw even worse than usual ones: Use Firefox or Chrome

January 17, 2010

I almost didn’t see a need to write this post.  Most CTOvision.com readers, I believe, are technically savvy folks who are already avid readers of security and technology news.  ...
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7 Reasons why the Desktop isn’t Dead.

January 17, 2010

Recently I read a blog from the BITS (Business Innovation Technology Society) blog of the NYTimes entitled “The Desktop: It’s Alive!” I found this to be a very good...
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Google Surprise: A change in intent regarding China

January 12, 2010

Google did something brave today.  Something I never thought they would do.  They stood up to communist china.  And they did what they did with a speed and certainty...
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Thoughts for the CTO from 171 BC

January 11, 2010

I saw an interesting statement reportedly by Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus (229 BC-160 BC).  This two-time consul of the Roman Republic and noted general during the Third Macedonian War...
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My Thoughts on the Apple Tablet

January 9, 2010
My Thoughts on the Apple Tablet

The Apple iTablet or iSlate is due to be shown off to the world January 27th, and unleashed on us sometime in March.  The blogosphere has been buzzing about...
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IT Architecture as taught by Monty Python

January 8, 2010

One of my friends and mentors, Bill Vass, has consistently advised IT professionals to understand, respect and use the power of well formed IT architecture.  Bill has often reminded...
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Motorola Droid Review

January 5, 2010

Note from Bob Gourley: The following article was written by enterprise technology and mission IT expert Danny Proko and was originally seen on Facebook (you can find Danny there...
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