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Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS) and the Next-Generation Internet

March 9, 2010
By BobGourley
Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS) and the Next-Generation Internet

We are all watching with interest the engineering of very high speed chips with multiple cores, and very high speed comms connectivity directly to those chips through optical connectors directly to end devices (like Light Peak). We are also watching increased broadband, including Fiber, directly to houses (like Fios, of course). But what about the...
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More on Light Peak: Very high data rate from the grid to your computer

March 4, 2010
By BobGourley

Intel Corporation’s Light Peak technology is an new optical communication capability that will be a universal connector for almost all commodity IT.  It is designed in about the same form factor as a USB cable, and it will be replacing everything that USB cables are used for today.  But its incredibly high data rates...
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Wanted: World Class Best Enterprise CTO

March 2, 2010
By BobGourley

One of the great technological treasures of the nation is the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon. For 25 years they have created software engineering processes, constructs and solutions for enterprises in and out of government. You probably consider them synonymous with CMMI, the Capability Maturing Model Integration for software development. ...
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Presentation at 2010 WIRe Conference

February 25, 2010
By BobGourley

The World Intelligence Review (WIRe) held its 2010 Conference Feb 24-25 (see: https://thewireconference.com ).  I was allowed to provide some thoughts to the folks gathered there and used the briefing below to help generate some discussion. I hope the briefing made the key point that users are responsible for articulating requirements and for ensuring their...
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Enhancing IT Support to the Counter Terror Effort: Design Criteria

February 24, 2010
By BobGourley
Enhancing IT Support to the Counter Terror Effort: Design Criteria

This is the concluding post on enhancing IT innovation in support of the Counter Terror effort.  The first part focused on the challenge and importance context relevant to design criteria.  This post focuses on design criteria and proposes next steps. Transforming the Challenge Into Design Criteria: The legacy IT environment of the counter-terror community is...
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Enhancing IT Support to the Counter Terror Effort: The Challenge

February 22, 2010
By BobGourley

Several specific and new requirements have been given to the national security community as part of the White House review of security and intelligence systems following the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas day. Collection, processing, organization, and dissemination of information is a priority in the new requirements. This post provides an...
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A CTO’s favorite list of lessons from the Miracle of the 1980 Olympics

February 19, 2010
By BobGourley
A CTO’s favorite list of lessons from the Miracle of the 1980 Olympics

I’ve previously posted the below, but it has been over a year and it is a favorite story so what they heck, this is a great story of leadership, vision, experience and mastery of art and science and my hope is that even of you have thought these through in the past you might...
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Twelve Principles of DoD Cyber Conflict

February 13, 2010
By BobGourley

While rummaging through old files on my hard drive I encountered a piece I wrote in June 2002 which captured in writing something I had been briefing for several years.  I had been briefing “Principles” which I had observed/learned while the J2 of DoD’s JTF-CND and then later J2 of JTF-CNO.   My theory was...
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Oracle, Sun and the Enterprise CTO

February 6, 2010
By BobGourley

The CTOvision.com assessment of the Oracle Acquisition of Sun: This is positive for the enterprise IT across the board, but the biggest determinate of what it means for your enterprise is what decisions you make now.  If you are an enterprise CTO, the ball is in your court. The following provides a bit more context. ...
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Larry Ellison on the Sun-Oracle Close, January 27, 2010

February 6, 2010
By BobGourley

The clip below is Larry Ellison giving some context on the Oracle Acquisition of Sun.  His mantra: complete, integrated, focused on business value for customers. I have more context and opinions coming in a follow-on post.
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