Posts Tagged ‘ CTO Principles ’

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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Five Megatrends in Enterprise IT

May 25, 2009
By Bob Gourley
Five Megatrends in Enterprise IT

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...
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Discussion with Justin Rattner of Intel

May 2, 2009
By Bob Gourley
Discussion with Justin Rattner of Intel

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

March 5, 2009
By Bob Gourley
Vivek Kundra: Still the Alpha CTO and now the First Fed CIO

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...
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The Technology Implications of the Obama Win

November 5, 2008
By Bob Gourley
The Technology Implications of the Obama Win

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 -...
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The Future of Cyberspace Security: The Law of The Rodeo

October 20, 2008
By Bob Gourley
The Future of Cyberspace Security: The Law of The Rodeo

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...
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Compliance enhances IT support to the mission

August 1, 2008
By Bob Gourley
Compliance enhances IT support to the mission

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...
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Enter my office: using Adobe Acrobat Connect

June 30, 2008
By Bob Gourley

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...
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Cyber Initiative and Deterrence

February 22, 2008
By Bob Gourley
Cyber Initiative and Deterrence

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...
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IT Disruptivity

February 3, 2008
By Bob Gourley

Today I published a reference I have been coordinating with several Chief Technology Officer (CTO) friends for a few weeks.  It is my list of disruptive IT. A disruptive technology is an innovation that overturns the status quo in a market. The term was first coined by Clayton Christensen and introduced in his 1995 article...
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