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 the...
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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 their...
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This is the concluding post on enhancing IT innovation in support of the Counter Terror effort. The first part focused on the challenge and importance context relevant to design criteria. This post focuses on design criteria and proposes next steps.
Transforming the Challenge Into Design Criteria:
The legacy IT environment of the counter-terror community is...
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Several specific and new requirements have been given to the national security community as part of the White House review of security and intelligence systems following the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas day. Collection, processing, organization, and dissemination of information is a priority in the new requirements.
This post provides an...
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I enjoyed listening to the President today as he provided an update on where we are in our efforts to enhance our freedom of action in cyberspace. All the details are on the White House website and I hope you visit there yourself to download the 60-day cyberspace policy review. Details are here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/CyberReview/
I...
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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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For several years now I’ve maintained a list of “Disruptive IT”. My focus in building this list is to help anticipate changes in the enterprise IT fabric. I enjoy studying that and if I can get it right this can be a service to enterprise CTOs.
A continual problem in maintaining this list is that...
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I was a bit puzzled when I found out I made the “Washington’s Tech Titans” list assembled by Washingtonian Magazine. Why in the world would they put me on that list? Well, it is certainly good press and I’m definitely honored that they would consider me. Here is what they wrote:
“Bob Gourley, founder...
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The DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held in Orlando Florida this year, at the Orlando World Center Marriott. I really like this conference. It is filled with folks I like and centers around a hard enterprise mission that cries out for strong IT solutions.
The theme of this years conference is “Empowering Decision Advantage.” The...
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What do you think of when you hear the word Adobe? Many folks immediately think of the open standard Portable Document Format (PDF) that was created by Adobe Systems for document exchange. PDFs are everywhere and so is Adobe’s free PDF readers, so it is commonly the first thing that comes to mind.
But things...
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