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Announcing CTOlabs.com: Concept Development and Tech Reviews

May 21, 2010 By

With this post I would like to bring your attention to  CTOlabs.com The purpose of the CTOlabs site is to provide a venue for providing technology concepts and reviews which highlight some of the commercial capabilities of Crucial Point LLC (CTOlabs.com is a subsidiary of Crucial Point). Crucial Point and our collaboration of world class technologists provides a wide range of consulting services, all related to an understanding of enteprise mission … [Read more...]

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Twelve Principles of DoD Cyber Conflict

February 13, 2010 By

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 that just as Admiral Bill Studeman has helped intelligence professionals understand their craft better by articulating principles, I could help … [Read more...]

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Five Megatrends in Enterprise IT

May 25, 2009 By

Like Yogi Berra said: "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."   This is especially true about technology.  Things are changing so fast in the tech world it is hard to keep up with the state of today's IT, which means it is even harder to predict where it is going tomorrow.  I like to start my predictions of the future of IT with caveats like those so you realize it is ok to question my every assumption as we try to figure out … [Read more...]

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Discussion with Justin Rattner of Intel

May 2, 2009 By

This post is a follow-on to my previous report on the 21 April 2009 Xeon 5500 kickoff event hosted by Intel corporation (see: Intel's New Chip ).   My previous post talked about the new “Intelligent Processors” being fielded by Intel.  With this post I want to provide a bit more information on a key presenter there, Justin Rattner. You can find background on Justin from two credible sources, his official bio at Intel and a Wikipedia entry on … [Read more...]

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Vivek Kundra: Still the Alpha CTO and now the First Fed CIO

March 5, 2009 By

Today's news on Vivek Kundra's role in the federal space made me think of another CTO, Yuvi Kochar. Yuvi, the CTO of the Washington Post, is a great connector of CTOs who leads the informal collective of the Washington Area CTO Roundtable.  Although I had heard Vivek speak a time or two, the first really deep interactions I had with Vivek were through Yuvi's work in service to the tech community and I much appreciate that. For a quick update on … [Read more...]

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The Technology Implications of the Obama Win

November 5, 2008 By

There are several megatrends sweeping the technology industry today.  Some of them are about to be accelerated. I like to use five key topic areas to track megatrends in IT: - Convergence and trend towards unified communications and user empowerment - Globalization and increasing internationalization of IT and demographic shifts - Increasing open development of software and hardware - Power, Cooling and Space (PCS) impacting data centers and every … [Read more...]

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The Future of Cyberspace Security: The Law of The Rodeo

October 20, 2008 By

This is an update of my now annual assessment of the future of technology associated with good and evil in cyberspace which was first posted here. Predictions of the future of technology are increasingly starting to sound like science fiction, with powerful computing grids giving incredible computational power to users and with autonomous robots becoming closer and closer to being in our daily lives vice just in computer science departments. … [Read more...]

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Compliance enhances IT support to the mission

August 1, 2008 By

I've previously blogged about Triumfant, a company that has mastered the automated detection and resolution of IT problems.   I also think of them as the world's greatest compliance monitoring capability.  What do I mean by compliance?  I mean compliance in the context of the many rules, regulations and configurations that external organizations and the government require, and also compliance with your own policies and guidance. For those who … [Read more...]

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Enter my office: using Adobe Acrobat Connect

June 30, 2008 By

I have picked a primary online meeting tool for my consultancy (Crucial Point LLC).  Although I will use any tool a client or associate needs me to use, the tool I prefer is Adobe Acrobat Connect. Why did I select Adobe Acrobat Connect?  A key reason is that no downloads are required for this to work (assuming, of course, that you have flash player installed on your system, which 98% of the computers on earth already do). Although that was an … [Read more...]

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Cyber Initiative and Deterrence

February 22, 2008 By

The Cyber Conflict Studies Association (CCSA) is a non-profit group organized to promote and lead a diversified research and intellectual development agenda to advance knowledge in the cyber conflict field. The CCSA is committed to developing academic programs and communities that can help the nation in this emerging area of thought. The CCSA is providing enhanced discourse on the strategic implications of cyber conflict and provides a venue for … [Read more...]

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