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Bob Gourley is Crucial Point LLC’s founder and editor of CTOvision.com. Bob has received industry recognition including Infoworld top CTO award, AFCEA’s meritorious service award, and recognition as one of the top 100 “Tech Titans” in DC by Washingtonian magazine. He was named one of the “Top 25 Most Fascinating Communicators in Government IT.”
On December 1, 2011 between 8am and 5pm the National Association of Broadcasters will hold an event focusing on motion imagery lessons learned from the broadcasting community. The event will be a great opportunity to learn more about collection, analysis, reporting, production and dissemination of complex news and sports events. These are topics of interest to many, but the event should be of special interest to members of the geospatial community. … [Read more...]
The Government Big Data Solutions Award was established to highlight innovative solutions and facilitate the exchange of best practices, lessons learned and creative ideas for addressing Big Data challenges. The top five nominees and overall winner was announced at Hadoop World in New York City on November 8 2011. The Government Big Data Solutions Award Program is coordinated by CTOLabs.com. The 2011 judging panel included: Doug Cutting, creator … [Read more...]
Governments (local, State, Federal, International) need more agility. This is especially true in the domain of Information Technology. Information technology is one of the fastest moving industries, but the government is slow at adopting and procuring new technology, including the technology that would make it more agile and adaptive. There are things we can do to accelerate innovation in governments. One key method is to recognize success and help … [Read more...]
Hadoop World 2011 is upon us. Once again the community, with the consistent/polite/leading/persistent coordination of Cloudera, has built a great agenda with the right speakers and great attendees for what is now the "must attend" Big Data event. For those who are attending, I can't wait to see you there. We are going to be treated to some GREAT keynotes from masters community-focused thinkers like Doug Cutting, Hugh Williams, James Markarian, Larry … [Read more...]
Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media and highly regarded technology trend watcher and good idea amplifier, wrote a short piece for Forbes on the topic of the "World's Most Powerful Data Scientists." He also provided some amplifying information in a piece on Google+. This post captures the gist of both of those, since Tim's list is well thought out and insightful. I absolutely strongly endorse most of what he wrote and most of the names he picks: … [Read more...]
In October 2010 one of America's great outlets of technology leadership thought published an important paper meant to inform government action towards reducing costs. The organization is the Technology CEO Council, which strives to be the information technology industry's number one public policy advocacy organization. It is comprised of Chief Executive Officers from America's leading information technology companies. I admire and respect this collective … [Read more...]
Dewey Houck is a good person, a real human being that is a pleasure to be around. You can tell that about him when you see the results he gets with technology and teams of people. He has been a VP level leader who has overseen the delivery of real capability to users for years. So when I heard he had been named to lead one of the largest groups in Boeing it really came as no surprise. He is a results oriented professional and I imagine that is what … [Read more...]
Our premier publication is our monthly technology review. Every month we send this to over 6000 technology thought leaders. This monthly summarizes reporting from the CTOvision.com blog as well as tech trends from the IT industry. The monthly also provide links to our technology assessments. Other products include our Daily CTOvision.com summary, the Daily Fedcyber.com summary, and the Weekly Government Big Data Newsletter. We would like to add you to … [Read more...]
The Judges for the 2011 Government Big Data Solutions Award have reported back and results have been tabulated. Judges had to choose from a diverse and large set of nominees in 2011, and we can only assume that the list will grow for 2012. It was great working with an all start team of professionals who know Big Data capabilities and government mission needs. Our judges included: Doug Cutting (creator of Lucene and Hadoop), Alan Wade (former CIA and … [Read more...]
During the recent GEOINT conference I spoke with SGI and Cloudera about the meaning of their recent announcement. They just announced a strategic agreement where SGI will ship Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Cloudera Enterprise Management Suite factory installed on SGI Hadoop Clusters. Although this is good news for both companies there is better news for users of Apache Hadoop. Benchmarking of this Cloudera CDH/SGI platform … [Read more...]