Forbes ran a nice piece on In-Q-Tel. The article is worth reading in its entirety. Here is a link: Startups Backed By The CIA. The In-Q-Tel mission is to identify, adapt and deliver innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader US Intelligence Community, including the Department of Homeland Security. As a teaser till you get around to the article, here is a list of companies in the order … [Read more...]
Disruptive IT List Update: watching several dramatically positive technologies
November 25, 2010 By
The CTOvision.com list of Disruptive IT has just been updated. This list reviews the companies regarded as having very high potential to change the way IT is done in large enterprises. For a company to be on the list they must have a currently shipping capability that appears to be a real game changer in enterprise IT. Many companies that were previously “disruptive” in their capability are not on this list because everyone is using them now, so … [Read more...]
IronClad Security for the Enterprise
November 24, 2010 By
Ray Ozzie, writing at his blog Ozzie.net, captured the essence of a vision, saying "We’re moving toward a world of 1) cloud-based continuous services that connect us all and do our bidding, and 2) appliance-like connected devicesenabling us to interact with those cloud-based services." His succinct statement captured an end state we are all moving towards. One of the things that has slowed our progress towards that goal is security. All … [Read more...]
Endeca Government Summit: Important context on a key mission area
November 19, 2010 By
The Endeca Government Summit was yesterday. The agenda included some fantastic presentations from customers who have used Endeca to address issues requiring incredible scale (billions of records) and incredible scope (including the need to discover meaning in data in milliseconds) and human-focused interfaces (including, in every solution I saw, an ability to enable humans to interact with data in ways that search never enables). One of my … [Read more...]
Announcing the CTOlabs.com Data Deduplication Survey
November 18, 2010 By
Dear reader, with this post I have a professional request. I would like to bring your attention to a survey meant to generate actionable information for enterprise IT decision-makers. This survey, commissioned by Carahsoft and run by CTOlabs.com, is designed to be brief, to the point, and focused on soliciting conclusions relevant to decisions regarding data deduplication. If you are an enterprise technologist working data deduplication in or around the … [Read more...]
Expressing requirements for security in the cloud
November 17, 2010 By
I just finished an online presentation (webex) as part of the cloud computing conference Up2010. My topic was "The Core Requirements for Security in the Cloud." I enjoyed pulling together the presentation and giving it was a blast, and it is easy to take questions via webex (they are typed in). The tech part of the presentation went fine. But I did not enjoy the inability to see the audience and really interact with people face to face. Oh well, … [Read more...]
Geospatial TTPs Contribute To Cyber Security
November 12, 2010 By
Editor note: Jim Youker of BAE Systems first published this piece in the Geospatial Intelligence Forum, it it is being republished here with the author's permission. Executive Summary The Geospatial tradecraft has benefited from the development of tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) that have played a major role in combating terrorism in the 21st century. These TTPs have improved the situational awareness of the operational environment, vital to … [Read more...]
A look at some of Windows 7′s Security Measures
November 10, 2010 By
Much has been made of Microsoft Windows 7; however, not enough has been written on their successes in the area of computer security. This post hits that topic. A rule of thumb among Microsoft watchers is that every other operating system will be a smash hit. Vista was, well, not so hot. Windows 7, however, has hit it out of the park. Microsoft created their most successful and polished operating system to date. Part of Microsoft’s challenge was … [Read more...]
Some thoughts informed by a Cloud Summit
November 7, 2010 By
A Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Green IT conference was held 26-27 October 2010 in Washington DC. This event was provided a good mix of presenters from government and industry plus a handful of analysts/commentators/writers/journalists and bloggers. There was also an expo which enabled firms to give demos of capabilities relevant to the topics of Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Green IT. First a note about the conference organizers: I've … [Read more...]