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Perspectives on Gist: very useful, contributes to agility and efficiency

June 15, 2010
Perspectives on Gist: very useful, contributes to agility and efficiency

I really like what I do.  Part of the reason why is I get to continuously search for new technologies and help apply them to the mission needs of my clients and their customers.  But I also enjoy using technologies myself.  One new one I have employed to the benefit of my firm is...
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Army IT Agency: An exemplar of enterprise IT transformation

June 7, 2010
Army IT Agency: An exemplar of enterprise IT transformation

Don Adcock is the executive director of the Information Technology Agency  (ITA) of the US Army.  The ITA is the executive agent for many OSD IT functions in the DC area and is a group which must operate a highly functioning IT enterprise at a very high level of availability. Don recently conducted an...
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How fast is 3G and what is 3.5G and when will 4G really be here?

June 5, 2010
How fast is 3G and what is 3.5G and when will 4G really be here?

Most enterprise CTOs are very interested in the “cloud” and ways to tap into cloud-based resources.   An interesting aspect of this discussion has been how to access the cloud while on the move.   Today’s cellular networks support that access today, and future enhancements are making that support even better and much much faster. How...
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Announcing CTOlabs.com: Concept Development and Tech Reviews

May 21, 2010
Announcing CTOlabs.com: Concept Development and Tech Reviews

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...
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2010 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference

May 21, 2010
2010 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference

The 2010 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held 23-27 May in Phoenix Arizona.  This venue is hosted by the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Directorate for Information Management and Chief Information Officer.  The focus is on topics relevant to mission success for the Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS).  DoDIIS is all about facilitating the...
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Datacenter Refresh Advice from Intel’s IT CTO

April 29, 2010
Datacenter Refresh Advice from Intel’s IT CTO

Gregg Wyant, Intel’s IT CTO is in the process of refreshing his data centers.  Like every other CTO, he has limited resources.  Not even he gets free CPUs and motherboards.  Gregg recently explained to me and a few others on a teleconference his Data Center Strategy.  He focused on the 8 principles that drive...
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Mitigating IPv6 Security Threats

April 3, 2010
Mitigating IPv6 Security Threats

After years of work in mitigating threats to the current version of networking protocols (Internet Protocol version 4- IPv4), network defenders can implement defense in depth by leveraging an array of capabilities like Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems, Intrusion Prevention Systems, Security Information and Event Managment (SIEM) tools and Unified Threat Management (UTM) tools.  Capabilities...
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Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS) and the Next-Generation Internet

March 9, 2010
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...
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More on Light Peak: Very high data rate from the grid to your computer

March 4, 2010
More on Light Peak: Very high data rate from the grid to your computer

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
Wanted: World Class Best Enterprise CTO

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. But they are...
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