How is the DoDIIS Conference Going?

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Several of the CTOvision.com/ Crucial Point team, including RyanKamauff, BobGourley, AlexOlesker,  have been at the DoDIIS Worldwide Conference, immersing ourselves in presentations, attending demos, visiting technology providers and integrators on the expo floor, and networking with people we admire and respect. While here we have also been collecting video and photos of several key technologies.  We have also been summarizing technologies of … [Read more...]

DoDIISTech.com is a new reference for DoDIIS technologists

Crucial Point LLC has just established a new online reference focused on the DoD Intelligence Information Systems community:  DoDIISTech.com. DoDIISTech.com contains a wealth of information on the technologies supporting the intelligence community, including applications for infrastructure, analysis, business and mission domains. It contains relevant, action-oriented context, joining our growing family of web properties that … [Read more...]

DoDIIS Conference Agenda Published

The DoDIIS Conference Agenda is now up at the conference site, and it really looks to be a great one. The confernece will be great for technology leaders in government, technology providers from industry, and the mission-focused executive leadership who seeks to guide both. If you want to shape the future, come to the DoDIIS conference and see what secure enterprises with advanced analytical missions are up to. I've pasted the full agenda below, but … [Read more...]

Technology Firms at the DoDIIS Worldwide

As a former DoDIIS CTO, one of my favorite things at the yearly DoDIIS Worldwide Conference is the expo floor. Visiting the many vendors and government displays there is a great way to get a snapshot of available technology. Firms that show technology at DoDIIS bring capabilities that are ready to go now. And, for the most part, the technologies there have great enterprise capabilities that work at scale.   Crucial Point will have a team of … [Read more...]

2011 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference

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The 2011 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held 1-5 May 2011 at the COBO at Detroit Michigan. This is always an exciting event for technologists enthused about continued improvement of mission capabilities. The conference is focused on the mission of the US DoD intelligence enterprise, but the many topics tackled at the event are of interest to technologists from a wide range of enterprises. For more see the official conference site … [Read more...]

A Recap of the 2009 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference

I previously mentioned the DoDIIS Worldwide Conference, which was held 17-21 May 2009.  I took lots of notes from the conference: enough, in fact, to fuel this blog for a long long time.  My associate Ryan Kamauff took even more (and more relevant) notes on the sessions there, and both of us kicked the tires on as many technology demos as we could.  This was a great education for us and the many other atendees there. I was also allowed to give a … [Read more...]

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 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...]

DoDIIS Worldwide Conference 17-21 May 2009

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 plenary speakers this year are GREAT! (as usual).  They include Grant Schneider, CIO for DIA, LTG Ron Burgess, … [Read more...]

May I have your views on the future of IT?

If all goes well I'll get a speaking part at the next DoDIIS Worldwide Conference at Orlando 17-21 May 2009.  I love this conference.  It is attended by great folks, many of whom are technologists with a deep background in a favorite mission area. The greatest systems integrators come to the conference.  And the technology companies that exhibit at the conference are also great, with many demonstrating cutting edge, disruptive technologies that make … [Read more...]

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 - Power, Cooling and Space (PCS) impacting data centers and every … [Read more...]