Good conferences can really help you get things done. You connect with people you need to meet, learn new trends, gain insights into customer perspectives and keep improving your own abilities. But you already know that. You probably also know that you can go overboard with conferences. You can spend so much time in...
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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/
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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 just ran across a good video at Techrepublic.com It features Tech Republic Editor in Chief Jason Hiner and provides good thoughts I’d recommend any enterprise CTO, CIO or CFO pay close attention to. It is embedded below.
When finished, click the menu button for outtakes:
I follow Jason on Twitter at @jasonhiner
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Google has recently provided some unprecedented views into their data center operations and have even revealed current details of their server board. In the past they have only released information on old designs (like the 80 PC rack given to the computer history museum). It seems like every time photos would pop up of...
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The topic of H-1B visa’s has always been a hot one. In the current economic climate there are plenty of American tech workers looking for work and therefore this special visa program is under increasing scrutiny. I have many friends and associates and family members who have either lost jobs or found themselves in...
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Every CTO I know has heard of Vivek Kundra, CTO of the District of Columbia. We have all been following his accomplishments in transforming the technology program in DC and have watched in excitement as more and more capabilities have been rolled out to serve the city and its citizens. We have followed reports...
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Technologists in and out of government have been very excited about the work of the Obama transition team, especially the work of their technologists. A group known as the TIGR (Technology, Innovation and Government Reform) Team has brought some of the best and brightest minds together to strategize and impact the action plans...
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Have you ever heard of an Unconference?
Have you ever heard of a BarCamp?
If these are new terms please read on, there are some important aspects of these concepts that CTOs should be familiar with. And there is a specific BarCamp Unconference coming up 27-28 March in the DC area focused on Gov2.0 that I’ll...
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The idea of light-weight, low-cost, but very powerful laptops designed for a smaller feature set than traditional laptops has been around for a decade or so. But all indications are that something has changed in the market place. Due to a convergence of many factors, netbooks are growing in sales. These factors include...
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