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Editor’s note: This post by Derek Singleton of Software Advice reviews more extensive work at: Three Ways Apple is Influencing Enterprise Software Development. These days, apps aren’t just about amazingly addictive games like Angry Birds or streaming your favorite tunes from your Grooveshark app. As the working world becomes increasingly mobile, apps are becoming an important aspect of doing our jobs in better, simpler ways. To be fair, we've … [Read more...]
Our sister site, CTOlabs.com, is a place where we capture information, evals, concepts and references of use to technologists. We write far more about specific technologies and companies there, which allows us to keep CTOvision.com focused on more timely topics. CTOvision.com is for current context on tech, CTOlabs.com is for reference and examination of concepts. We enjoy writing about new technologies and emerging firms on CTOlabs.com and would … [Read more...]
In Google's Q3 earnings call, they released that there are 190M Android Devices Worldwide. Google's mobile revenue is now up to $2.5B over the past 12 months. They are adding over 575K users a day, an incredible rate of adoption. The Motorola purchase, which was seen as Google's first foray into device manufacture, has been called a defense of the Android Operating System - a purchase of patents to protect against the onslaught of lawsuits. These suits … [Read more...]
As of yet, there is no definitive narrative of the virus that hit the U.S. drone fleet at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada this September. Original reports stated that drone cockpits had been infected with a keylogger virus and, while there was no indication that classified information had been stolen or that missions had been compromised, the virus has proven tenacious, resisting efforts to disinfect machines and forcing the Air Force to wipe … [Read more...]
Apple just released the details on the iPhone 4S, for those expecting the 5, they were extremely underwhelmed, and Apple's stock has taken a bit of a tumble. The updates were all internal and all on the back-end. This has made quite a few people upset (mostly because they were hoping for the iPhone 5) but the device is in fact a good deal more powerful. If you've read this blog often, you know I'm not a big Apple fan. While they do make solid … [Read more...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEzmXrs0mdA Another discussion from the HP Protect 2011 conference on Monday, September 12, 2011 featured Bob Gourley and HP's Andrzej Kawalec, CTO of Enterprise Security, discussing the evolving enterprise threat environment and how it can be mitigated. Bob and Andrzej agreed on three major emerging challenges in enterprise cybersecurity. The first is simply the nature of the threat, which is growing in … [Read more...]
Editor's Note: The highly regarded enterprise IT thought leader Dion Hinchcliffe has produced yet another "must read" piece for enterprise technologists titled "The "Big Five" IT trends of the next half decade: Mobile, social, cloud, consumerization, and big data." This is classic Dion, with compelling logic, great context, and a tremendous graphic that helps put the trends in perspective. I summarize and extract from Dion's piece here: Much has … [Read more...]
The Intelligence Community's Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) office of "incisive analysis" has been evaluating plans, projects and proposals submitted in response to a broad solicitation of inputs on a very interesting construct. They have embarked on a new, smarter way of gleaning technology trends. We first learned publicly of this activity in 2010 when they posted a synopsis which accurately captured the fact that projecting technology … [Read more...]
Friends at PNNL have asked that we post information on a search they have underway for a chief scientist position focused on Cyber Security Research. PNNL is renowned for making contributions to the body of scientific knowledge surrounding high end enterprise IT and has long been involved in advanced cybersecurity research. This position will be key to furthering exploration in this domain. Full text of their job description is pasted below. Also … [Read more...]
The newest highly scalable social media capability on the grid is WayIn. WayIn leverages the ubiquitous Internet, the increasingly pervasive smart phone and tablet platforms, globally deployed desktop devices to connect with people. WayIn builds upon the lessons learned from Sun Microsystem's greatest cloud computing architects and business minds. And it fills a need many of us have long desired. What does WayIn do? It lets any user anywhere … [Read more...]