Happy New Year! Best wishes for your 2011. From a CTO perspective 2010 has been an incredibly busy year, and odds are the pace will only accelerate. We began 2010 with the nation still dealing with the Christmas Day 2009 terror attack, which was a reminder that conniving enemies still seek ways to attack and we must always do what we can to disrupt their plans. One of the things the civilized world can do to stop these attacks is make better use of … [Read more...]
Ponemon Institute Cost of Cyber Crime Study
December 26, 2010 By
This July, the Ponemon Institute performed a benchmark study of US companies to identify the cost that companies can attribute to cyber incidents. There are a whole host of different ways in which a company can be targeted by a cyber attack, including corporate espionage. To complete their research, Ponemon examined 45 organizations, examining thousands of independent cyber attacks. They found that attacks varied between $1M and $52M, averaging … [Read more...]
Background on Lucene, Nutch and Hadoop
December 18, 2010 By
Doug Cutting is the creator of Lucene, Nutch and Hadoop. Doug and these projects are increasingly being mentioned in enterprise environments. So with this post I'll provide a bit more of context on each. Doug Cutting has earned a reputation as an innovative, community-supporting developer. He is on the board of directors of the Apache Software Foundation and is now its Chairman. He is the Architect at Cloudera, the firm famous for delivering an end to … [Read more...]
Government Big Data Forum 2011
December 16, 2010 By
Carahsoft has just announced more details on the 2011 Government Big Data Forum. This should be a great event for discourse on the struggles faced by Government IT regarding the breadth of data they handle. Both civilian and military agencies require more data storage every day. But the reason to have data is not to store it! The reason to have data is to improve mission. You must manage and move and make sense of data to serve the mission and … [Read more...]
5 Tech Toys for this Holiday Season
December 13, 2010 By
We are almost at Christmas, and a lot of people don't know what to buy their loved ones this season. Do not worry, we here at CTOvision have provided you with a list of items that will be certain to bring joy to your loved ones this holiday season. 1) New non-3D LCD/LED TV. New HDTVs have gotten extremely inexpensive. 32" LCD TVs are down to about $300 dollars, super thin backlit LED TVs are about $600 for a 32". Because I don't believe in 3DTV … [Read more...]
Debrief from The White House Forum on IT Management Reform
December 9, 2010 By
If you are an enterprise technologist in or out of the Federal Government, please take time to watch the entire presentation below. It captures the entirety of the presentations and majority of the conversations at the White House Forum on Information Technology Management Reform. I recommend you watch the entire presentation for several reasons. If you are a student of IT and its governance, you will see what a good strategy looks like. If you are a … [Read more...]
White House Forum on Information Technology Management Reform
December 7, 2010 By
On Thursday 9 December from 0830 till 1000 the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will host the Forum on Information Technology (IT) Management Reform . The event will be streamed live at http://www.whitehouse.gov/live More from the CIO.gov website: Federal Chief Performance Officer and OMB’s Deputy Director for Management Jeffrey Zients and U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra will discuss the Obama Administration’s new … [Read more...]