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Businesses on the Internet today can rise and fall with the power of search. To survive in this search-based economy, a business must be able to be found easily on google search, have a location in Bing maps to navigate too, and a phone number that can be easily brought up in a yellow-pages query. The problem is that the format of the web is also changing --- changing from the once-static HTML and hyperlink model to a sleeker dynamic page model, where … [Read more...]
Hadoop and the many capabilities associated with it (including Hive, Pig, HBase, Zookeeper, Flume, Sqoop, Hue, Oozie and Whirr) is really the rage. Enterprises with big data challenges, researchers with massive data sets and organizations seeking to make sense over seemingly unbounded data are learning how to use those many related technologies to solve problems that were impossible to tackle in a timely fashion just a few years ago. Although there … [Read more...]
On Tuesday 21 June 2011 I was honored to be given the role of moderator for an all day HP Government Software Summit, held at the Newseum in Washington DC. The purpose of the event was to focus on the information needs of government IT professionals, especially those dealing with enterprise IT issues. That is a sweet spot for HP software solutions and a natural theme for this sort of event. Through the day there were several keynote presentations … [Read more...]
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Department of Justice (DoJ), Vance Hitch, has announced his retirement. Vance is the longest serving cabinet-level federal CIO, having been named to his post in 2002. He leaves behind a legacy of progress and professionalism, both for his department and for the federal community, and he will be missed by all. Here is a bit of his background, from his official bio on the DoJ CIO website: Vance Hitch … [Read more...]
The celebration of IBM's 100th birthday this month has focused the spotlight squarely on Big Blue. In an industry where companies fail all the time, IBM's ability to stay relevant is impressive. So how does a company like IBM manage to stick around for so long? As the ERP market analyst at Software Advice, I typically write about trends related to manufacturing software. But IBM is such a fascinating company and so pervasive in enterprise technology … [Read more...]
Last Saturday, the hacker collective Lulz Security disbanded after nearly two months of "high-quality entertainment at your expense," stating that they had always intended to keep their campaign to 50 days and were not responding to heightened law enforcement pressure. Throughout their internet rampage, the hacker group was heavily hyped by the media, often for good reason. They took websites associated with the CIA, U.S. Senate, and Brazilian … [Read more...]
Many of you likely work with sensitive data on a regular basis. Whether it be classified government information, personally identifiable data, or any other type of data that should be protected, there are many ways to secure it in the digital domain. In fact, securing that data digitally is the easy part. What about the threat of eavesdroppers? They could be intentional and malicious, or completely accidental and benign, but that doesn't make it … [Read more...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Today’s users expect IT services and response to be immediate, interactive, connected and fluid. Delivering technology-enabled services is more important than ever and the most successful enterprises don’t just respond to this, they embrace it. Cloud computing promises the agility enterprises need. It helps deliver the precise portfolio of IT services users need, each fro the best … [Read more...]
CTOlabs.com, a partner site of CTOvision.com, has just published a new guide meant to help further the awareness of the many new security features being fielded in today's computer hardware. This guide, titled "Leveraging Hardware Design to Enhance Security and Functionality," provides context, tips and strategies designed to dramatically enhance the security and functionality of enterprise IT. It highlights the contributions to security possible by … [Read more...]
This is the second installation on my series about Computer Network Operations (CNO). The last blog explored the actions known as Computer Network Exploitation (CNE), and as always, please feel free to comment. Today, the topic switches from exploitation to defense. Computer Network Defense (CND): Includes actions taken via computer networks to protect, monitor, analyze, detect and respond to network attacks, intrusions, disruptions or other … [Read more...]