Highly respected writer and industry analyst Loren B. Thompson has just penned an opinion piece on recent changes in the Pentagon related to how DoD does IT.  The piece, titled “The Twilight of Network-Centric Warfare” is worth a full read by anyone in the IT business, in or out of government. Dr. Thompson argues...
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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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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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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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As previously announced, DIA has announced awardees for their major information technology acquisition program Solutions for the Intelligence Technology Enterprise (SITE). We are starting to see press releases from the winning firms.  The Centauri Solutions release is below.  This is one I have a deep personal interest in because they graciously allowed my firm...
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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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The CTOvision.com Tech Titans list has just been updated with a new snapshot of the globe’s top Information Technology (IT) firms by market cap. The firms on the list are all important for enterprise chief technology officers (CTO) and chief information officers (CIO) to track. Links to financial information and news sources are provided...
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I got an iPad on Saturday, and spent about 25 hours straight putting it through the paces (my family was also part of the test team). The speed and user interface along with the apps are stunning.  It is light and fast, the battery lasts over 10 hours between recharges (as Apple claimed it...
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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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The World Intelligence Review (WIRe) held its 2010 Conference Feb 24-25 (see: https://thewireconference.com ).  I was allowed to provide some thoughts to the folks gathered there and used the briefing below to help generate some discussion. I hope the briefing made the key point that users are responsible for articulating requirements and for ensuring...
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