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I'll be attending Hadoop World Nov 8 and 9 in NYC and hope to see you there. This is the place to be to learn how new approaches, technologies and solutions can help address challenges facing enterprises of all sorts, especially the federal enterprise. We will be announcing the winner of the 2011 Government Big Data Solutions Award at this event. What can you expect from Hadoop World? In addition to Doug Cutting and Mike Olson, Hadoop World … [Read more...]
Editor's Note: The piece below is reprinted with permission. It was written by the highly regarded observer of federal technology trends Steve O'Keeffe at the MeriTalk blog, and has resulted in quite a bit of discussion at that site. Open Government Dead - Pass the Beer Nuts... The date on the tombstone - September 15.Open gov that was shouted from the rooftops on Obama’s first day died last week with barely a whisper - far from the headlines. The … [Read more...]
The second interview for IDG on Monday, September 12, featured Andrzej Kawalec, HP's CTO of Enterprise Security along with Bob Gourley. The two first discussed changes in the enterprise threat environment, which have been dramatic. They agreed on three major emerging challenges in enterprise cybersecurity. The first is simply the nature of the threat, which is growing more sophisticated, faster, and more targeted over time. Phishing, for example, … [Read more...]
Facebook is about to eat Twitter for lunch. I’m slowly recognizing that more and more of my activity is migrating from Twitter to Facebook. I’ve also been wondering if Apples upcoming IOS 5 integration with Twitter is a strategic mistake on Apple’s part? What will it take for Facebook to finish Twitter off? Here’s my lists of recommendations of what to do and not do. Give me a separate “subscribed” news feed - I want to be able to toggle … [Read more...]
Let's face it: the social media that many enterprises hail also pose big problems. Employee use of the Internet--particularly social networks--is a big timewaster. A new Nielsen study found that Americans spend 23% of their online time on social networks, with an increasing amount of that browsing time spend spent on mobile apps. Like the sarcastic Captain Renault in Casablanca, we're shocked, shocked that a good deal of this browsing time is likely … [Read more...]
Anthropologist Robin Dunbar famously observed that most people can only maintain relationships at one time with 150 people. The average on Facebook is 120-230. And of that, only a fraction really matter to us. Penetrating a small circle is usually very difficult, especially if they are members of a network based around a tie that cannot easily be faked or replicated. Social media, however, is changing the security dynamics of "small" groups. By … [Read more...]
On Monday, September 12, 2011, Crucial Point's own Bob Gourley met with cyber security industry leaders at the National Harbor Gaylord Convention Center near Washington D.C. The event was coincident with the HP Protect 2011 conference for Cyber security and enterprise software. The full interview will air soon through HP, but we wanted to give you a preview here on CTOvision.com. Over the next week or so we will be writing up the main points of the … [Read more...]
Another great use case for Hadoop and HBase (one that should be of particular interest to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency- NGA) is explained in this video from the Chicago Data Summit on April 26 by NAVTEQ on how HBase can be used to process geographical content on a massive scale. NAVTEQ is "the leading map provider" for location-enabled devices such as vehicle navigation systems and smartphone maps. They provide the data that powers … [Read more...]
Enterprise security was once based entirely around the personal computer. A computer was the primary venue from which employees communicated, produced and exchanged data, and opened the company to risk. Now the widespread use of mobile computing devices for both work and pleasure has created security problems that we have previously explored. Thus, accepting the "death" of the PC--at least as a unitary device--is an imperative for modern enterprise … [Read more...]
Information warfare is thought to be a product of what, broadly speaking, is considered the "information" era. However, if we correctly understand what information war is, we can see that it stretches back to the dawn of organized conflict itself. Dorothy Denning defines information warfare (IW) as “operations that target or exploit information resources.” Information resources consist of containers (information media that contain forms of … [Read more...]