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Since the beginning of our publishing at CTOVision.com we have sought to highlight the technologies and companies that hold the greatest potential of positive disruptions in enterprise IT. One of the reference lists we developed is our online "Disruptive IT List". Thanks to feedback from readers, including CTOs from enterprises and from IT companies, we have been able to use this list to give technologists a bit of insight into technologies of high … [Read more...]
Every year, the AIIM Conference meets to provide excellent keynotes and other speakers. This year our editor, Bob Gourley will be speaking on Big Data. The conference is March 20-22 at the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco. The topic for this year is " Managing Information in the Social, Local, and Mobile Era." Information overload is fast becoming a serious issue for decision makers and analysts alike. This conference will offer success stories from leaders … [Read more...]
Special Operations Command (SOCOM) recently released a Broad Agency Announcement soliciting proposals for several types of technologies that they are looking for in cooperation with the private sector. We are interested in all forms of disrupting technologies at Crucial Point LLC and after looking this wish list from SOCOM it is pretty clear they are looking for disruptive technologies as well. Below is a breakdown of what they are looking for. If … [Read more...]
Amazon didn't invent cloud computing, but they deserve lots of credit for transforming the business model for providing cloud services through elastic computing (for some history see Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet from Businessweek Nov 2006). They have pushed the economics of cloud computing to be so efficient they are able to offer a 12 months worth of initial compute for free. This is a great opportunity to learn their interface and to test how their computing … [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...]
Just because social media such as Facebook and Twitter are known to sap productivity at the workplace doesn't mean that they aren't efficient. Quite the contrary- social media's allure comes from its amazing effectiveness for connecting people, forming virtual communities, compiling, developing, and delivering relevant information and, most recently, perfecting and distributing apps. Realizing that the power of social media could be used to save rather … [Read more...]
As recently pointed out by Crucial Point's Adam Elkus in the blog Mobile Risk Management: Welcome to the Jungle, organizations today need be aware of the risks they open themselves up to when they deploy mobile solutions. Whether it be an iOS, Android, or Blackberry device, there are vulnerabilities in each of these platforms, and an exploit can be detrimental to your company's personal data and intellectual property. However, these devices are … [Read more...]
Last week I was fortunate enough to sit down with Power Assure's CTO and co-founder, Clemens Pfeiffer. Power Assure provides data center data center infrastructure and energy management tools, but their expertise with data centers carries far beyond just power management. Clemens spoke to me about how Power Assure can help any data center identify weaknesses and move to an energy efficient modern data center. Power Assure can help CTOs identify a … [Read more...]
With this post we provide some info on a capability we believe most of our readers will want to know more about, the Plug and Play Tech Center. For an overview see the video clip below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkse7I5k44E&feature=player_embedded The Plug and Play Tech Center is a Silicon Valley facility with a very apropos name. If you have a business idea or a hot technology and you want to accelerate it into the world, you want to go … [Read more...]
Verizon Wireless (VZW) stated that their operating revenues in Q2 were up to $27.5B. They claim to have 2.2M new additions - I was even one of them. But while they are attributing these newcomers to the iPhone and their stable of LTE devices, I believe a majority switched for another reason. It was widely published that VZW was going to drop their unlimited data plans and switch to tiered plans only. These tiered plans come with prohibitive costs … [Read more...]