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...]
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Five Megatrends in Enterprise IT
May 25, 2009 By BobGourley
Filed Under: CTO, The Future Tagged With: CTO, CTO Principles, Disruptive IT, DoDIIS, Enterprise, Network Security, Open Source Software, Ray Kurzweil, SOA, social media, The Future of Technology, Twitter
The Technology Implications of the Obama Win
November 5, 2008 By BobGourley
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...]
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The Future of Cyberspace Security: The Law of The Rodeo
October 20, 2008 By BobGourley
This is an update of my now annual assessment of the future of technology associated with good and evil in cyberspace which was first posted here. Predictions of the future of technology are increasingly starting to sound like science fiction, with powerful computing grids giving incredible computational power to users and with autonomous robots becoming closer and closer to being in our daily lives vice just in computer science departments. … [Read more...]
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Securing Enterprise Data and Computer Power
October 3, 2008 By BobGourley
In March I posted an entry on a significant enhancement in the computing realm, the thin client. That post focused on how thin client computing is changing the net assessment in computer security (see: http://ctovision.com/2008/03/computer-security-a-change-to-the-net-assessment/ ). I've been really pleased to watch thin client computing take off. How widespread is adoption now? In August Sun announced that they had nearly doubled their … [Read more...]
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Is Your CTO Making You Stupid?
September 17, 2008 By BobGourley
Nicholas Carr writes in ways that makes people think. I really enjoyed reading his latest in the Atlantic titled "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" This article covers some rather significant trends that IT is pushing into the global social fabric. The changes he talks about are disturbing. They are infecting people like a fast spreading disease. There is a chance you are suffering some of these symptoms yourself, so by all means read the … [Read more...]
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The National Security Implications of Free 3D in a Browser
August 7, 2008 By BobGourley
Jeffrey Carr sent a short broadcast via Twitter the other day: " New post on 3D imaging and Virtual Earth - mind blowing video http://bit.ly/3SxtdA " Jeffrey was blogging about a capability shown in the short clip below: As you watch that, keep in mind that what you are seeing is a capability that can run on any PC that can run Internet Explorer (which is just about all of them). The clip shows a capability that Microsoft's Caligari toolset … [Read more...]
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Microsoft Surface uses Jet to accelerate demand
August 3, 2008 By BobGourley
This is the third of three blog posts on technologies encountered during my visit to Redmond. This one is on Microsoft Surface. (First a note: although this is about Surface, Microsoft also announced another hot capability called Sphere. For more on that see the blog of the CTO of Microsoft's Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments- Lewis Shepherd) Microsoft Surface is something you may have heard about in the press. For those of us who … [Read more...]
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Inspiration Innovation and Motivation for the CTO
July 23, 2008 By BobGourley
Looking for a little inspiration and motivation to drive your innovation? Take a short break from the daily grind and watch the top ten TED talks of all time: http://www.ted.com/talks/top10 From the TED site: "With speakers like neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor and global health expert Hans Rosling, the list proves one of the compelling ideas behind TEDTalks: that an unknown speaker with a powerful idea can reach -- and move -- a global audience … [Read more...]
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Automated Resolution of IT Problems
July 11, 2008 By BobGourley
In January 2008 I was named to the advisory board of Triumfant, a company who has mastered the automated detection and resolution of IT problems. Of all the IT firms I've seen, they are the ones with the most comprehensive approach to automated resolution management and the only one I've seen that can automate the entire lifecycle of IT problem management, from identification to resolution. I recently read some very exciting news about … [Read more...]
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Zettaflop Supercomputers and Moore’s Law
May 3, 2008 By BobGourley
Intel's Pat Gelsinger, a guy in a position to know and help drive Intel's technology roadmap (he is Intel's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and SVP) spoke recently at the Intel Developers Forum where he gave a presentation called "From Petaflops to Milliwatts." In that presentation he described something we should all be glad to know, he believes Moore's Law will continue to hold good through 2029 (as I'm sure most readers here know, Moore's Law comes … [Read more...]
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