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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The FBI has some critically important missions. They have always been sent to address the big crimes, the hard challenges that required the most advanced training and skills.   And they have always had roles in counter espionage and counter terror (with both those roles growing in the last several years).  They have long been...
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The clip below is Larry Ellison giving some context on the Oracle Acquisition of Sun.  His mantra: complete, integrated, focused on business value for customers. I have more context and opinions coming in a follow-on post. Share and Enjoy:
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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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I’m very pleased with the pick of Aneesh Chopra as the Federal Government’s CTO.  I wish I could add more context than that, and was thinking of a quick biographical sketch of Aneesh and some ideas on why this is great news.  Then I read Tim O’Reilly’s post at OReilly Radar, and frankly I...
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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 two, the first...
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Michael Tanji brings a perspective forged in years of intelligence work and a successful stint protecting information in the financial sector.  He is a well published author who focuses on national security issues and is also a thought leader in the computer security domain. At Haft of the Spear he writes primarily about technology...
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Matt Devost has been a thought leader in information technology, cyber warfare, counter terrorism and security training for over a decade.  He has built successful companies, taught warriors security, helped protect industry and taught (and still teaches) information warfare at Georgetown university. Through history great thoughts have come from leaders who work at the...
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The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Microsoft’s Institute for Advanced Technologies in Governments, Lewis Shepherd, publishes a blog on technologies relevant to enterprises big and small.  Lewis writes about tools, techniques and concepts in ways that bring home the real utility of advanced technologies.  Recent posts have been on word-clouds and other ways of...
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On Wednesday 28 Jan 2009 at 10am Eastern I’ll be on CIO Talk Radio with one of the stars of the global technology community, Vint Cerf. The topic we will be discussing is cloud computing and the next technology revolution in the US.  Vint is fantastically qualified to discuss this topic, and I’m honored...
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