Adobe MAX 2009 will be held 4-7 October 2009 in Los Angeles. Please check out the conference agenda and consider attending (see http://max.adobe.com). The conference looks like a great way to continue advancing concepts like rich internet applications, social computing, and the leveraging of existing infrastructure in delivery of modern applications. Since your enteprise already has Adobe in it (Adobe capabilities are in every client or something … [Read more...]
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Adobe MAX 2009: Explore, Learn, Contribute
July 9, 2009 By BobGourley
Filed Under: CTO, Web2.0 Tagged With: Adobe, Internet, social media, Tech/Internet, vmware
What CTOs should know about Adobe
May 4, 2009 By BobGourley
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 have been changing fast in that company and the dramatic changes they kicked off in the digital publishing world in the 1990's are being … [Read more...]
Filed Under: CTO Tagged With: Adobe, collaboration, Disruptive IT, endeca, Enterprise, Internet, operating system, Oracle, Sun, Tech/Internet, vmware
The Future of Global IT: Its like the Kobayashi Maru
February 15, 2009 By BobGourley
If you are a little rusty on your advanced science literature, theater and movies and don't recall the story from the fictional Star Trek universe known as the Kobayashi Maru, please take a moment to watch this clip, just to get your mind going: This part of the story, reportedly written by Gene Roddenberry himself, is about a simulation at Star Fleet Academy. For most students there it is a no-win scenario, as you saw in the clip. For one, … [Read more...]
Filed Under: CTO, The Future Tagged With: CCSA, CTO, cyber, Enterprise, Identity Management, Internet, Kobayashi Maru, Network Security, Tech/Internet
Vint Cerf of Google and Bob Gourley of CTOvision.com on CIO Talk Radio
January 26, 2009 By BobGourley
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 to be sharing a microphone with him and look forward to learning from the interaction. Every time I get the pleasure of interacting with Vint it ends … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Cloud Computing, CTO Tagged With: Bob Gourley, cio, collaboration, CTO, Disruptive IT, Enterprise, Google, Great CTOs, IEEE, information technology, Internet, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names, ITU, microsoft, Security, standards, Tech/Internet, Technology Leadership, The Future of Technology
Google App Engine: CTOs should check it out
April 9, 2008 By BobGourley
A friend at Google sent me a great clip from the Google Blog on the Google App Engine. Let me quote below: "We just launched a preview release of Google App Engine, a way for developers to run their web applications on Google's infrastructure. In the same way that Blogger made it easy to create a blog, Google App Engine is designed from the ground up to make it easy to create and run web applications. With Google App Engine, developers can write web … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Cloud Computing, CTO Tagged With: Cloud Computing, CTO, Disruptive IT, Enterprise, Google, Internet, Mashup, Open Source Software, Tech/Internet, Technology Leadership, vmware, Web/Tech