Posts By Bob Gourley

A guide to Rooting your Android phone

By Ryan Kamauff One of the constant discussions between Android users is why/if you should “root.” Rooting is a term that describes the ability to grant programs “superuser” access. This allows programs to operate at the root level of the operating system, enabling full phone backups, changing certain parameters (CPU/GPU speeds) and changing the entireRead… Read more »

After Boston: Terrorism and the Technology Gap

By Bryan Ware The Boston Marathon bombing, subsequent manhunt and current investigation are unprecedented – not only due to the nature of the attack but because of how much information has been available to law enforcement, the public and the suspects. Unlike any previous large-scale attack, data came in at a staggering velocity within secondsRead… Read more »

Invincea: An update for the enterprise technology professional

By Bob Gourley For disclosure: I am on the Invincea advisory board. I’m incredibly proud of to be associated with those guys and I’m hoping my pleasure with them comes through in this post. Invincea delivers an enterprise grade breach prevention platform. Capabilities they field include an ability to run software in a totally virtualizedRead… Read more »

Tech Trends To Watch In May 2013

By Bob Gourley The following is the meat from our monthly tech trends report. You can have this delivered to your email each month by visiting our newsletter signup page. Over the last several months we continued to see foundations being established for dramatic positive change in the federal IT ecosystem including the government contractingRead… Read more »

Feds Look to Partner With States on Cybersecurity, What keeps federal CIOs up at night and more

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. USAID releases open data tools to increase government openness – “The U.S. Agency for International Development announced April 29 the launch of a plethora of new datasets and tools to increase transparency.” “At the conference, USAID announced the launch of usaid.gov/developerRead… Read more »

A look at the Mobile Landscape in May 2013

By Ryan Kamauff At Google IO a new Android will be unleashed, and it may not be coming to the top Android devices of today Todays’ mobile landscape is filled with a vast number of options to the uninitiated. But careful examination can easily whittle down the number of options to just a few phones.Read… Read more »

Why we need to reconsider how we do technical presentations

By Dirk Haun Technical presentations aren’t TED talks. With all the facts and figures that you have to present, it’s impossible to make them exciting. Besides, the audience expects to see all those technical details and will frown upon slides that only show photos. Right? No, of course not. The perceived lack of actual contentRead… Read more »

Survey and Contest: Give us thoughts on the future of Hadoop in Federal IT and enter to win a week’s worth of Starbucks on CTOvision

By Bob Gourley Dear readers, We really appreciate your inputs on all matters. Please keep your thoughts coming to us via any path easy for you. We would especially appreciate it if you take a minute to fill out our survey form below. We are looking for information that can help us produce more focusedRead… Read more »

Skytree: A machine learning company focused on disrupting the advanced analytics market

By Bob Gourley Skytree is a machine learning company focused on disrupting the advanced analytics market with a machine learning platform that gives organizations the power to discover deep analytic insights, predict future trends, make recommendations and reveal untapped markets and customers. They have a deep bench of talent, proven past performance, a growing listRead… Read more »