By BobGourley Disruptive IT List The CTOvision.com Disruptive IT List is our assessment of the technology firms with the greatest potential for virtuous disruption of enterprise IT. Our goal is to provide enterprise CTOs with advanced notice of firms they should be evaluating now for use in transforming their technology base. We believe the firmsRead… Read more »

By ChrisScott Surely you didn’t think sequestration was over did you? But just in case you crossed this off your worry list we are here to remind you, the impacts of current delays are going to be disruptive, and the threat more “can-kicking” still exists and can make things even worse. Full scale sequstration, asRead… Read more »

By BobGourley If you are fielding enterprise-grade data solutions in the federal space, especially in the national security components of government, please consider attending this Big Data event. Friends at Cloudera are lead sponsors and coordinators of a new Big Data Forum focused on Apache Hadoop. The first, which will be held 30 January 2013Read… Read more »

By RyanKamauff Terracotta offers novel solutions to speed enterprise software Note: excerpted from Terracotta’s blog (here). In the last few posts, we have outlined how in-memory solutions are being adopted in industries such as financial services, travel & logistics, and big pharma to overcome many kinds of Big Data challenges. Here I’d like to shareRead… Read more »

By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Four cybersecurity items that need less talk and more action – Jaikumar Vijayan of Computerworld has outlined four cybersecurity items that need less talk and more action in the new year. They are federal cybersecurity legislation, SCADA security, data encryption and strongRead… Read more »

By ChrisScott Finding and destroying the enemy has always been the main priority of Militaries worldwide. Good intelligence and sophisticated weapons has traditionally been a recipe for success. Today, traditional “Hard Kill” responses are becoming increasingly less desirable and DoD is moving away from “symmetric” responses (you build something big and bad and we buildRead… Read more »

By RyanKamauff With this post we dive deeper into technology trends associated with consumer IT, especially mobility in 2013. These flow from our earlier overview of the seven shapers of technology in 2013, but have a bit more fidelity. We offer some predictions on how we see the mobile and technology world over the nextRead… Read more »

By RyanKamauff This presentation at the recent Tableau conference was so popular, we just had to repeat it! Fernando Mesa, Chief Technologist, Enterprise, will reprise the presentation in this special webcast. Join Fernando in a discussion on how to combine the power of Tableau against a NoSQL Database that is able to perform analytics againstRead… Read more »

By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. PNNL joins with UW to form big data institute – The PNNL and the University of Washington are partnering to create the Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing. The institute aims to be a collaboration center for researchers to explore advanced computer systemRead… Read more »

By RyanKamauff Note, this article is reposted from Terracotta’s blog (here). If you’re an IT exec in logistics, travel, or transportation, mapping is certain to appear on your list of top challenges for 2013. Maps pose a challenge because they require large data sets, real-time processing, and fast display. CIOs working with maps must grappleRead… Read more »