By Bob Gourley
The AFCEA Bethesda chapter is known in the DC community for pulling together
some of the most virtuous/mission focused events in the community. If you are
unfamiliar with them I’ll just say that the attitude of this group of
volunteers is always focused on doing the right thing for critically
important missions and they have a great reputation for collegially working
across industry, government and academia to build events that really help
people get their jobs done.
On 14 Jan AFCEA Bethesda will be facilitating their third annual Big Data
technology symposium. They have lined up some great champions from industry
and government to interact with and have sponsors from the most capable
technology firms in the community (CTOvision.com is a media sponsor).
Here is more from their site at http://ctolink.us/198hNMY
Big Data is exponential growth of data be... (more)
By Michael Johnson
For enterprise technology decision-makers, functionality, interoperability,
scalability security and agility are key factors in evaluating technologies.
Another that is also very important to consider is the health of the
community around the technology. This includes the firm stewarding the
technology as well as the developers in the ecosystem.
In the case of Pentaho, the news below sends clear signals on many of those
factors. Pentaho has long been known for functionality, scalability,
interoperability and agility. And they have always had a large community ... (more)
By Bob Gourley
If you are an analyst or executive or architect engaged in the analysis of
big data, this is a “must attend” event. We will be there engaging with
the community and hope to see you there.
Registration is now open for the third annual Federal Big Data Apache Hadoop
Forum!
Register here.
Join us on Thurs., Feb. 6, as leaders from government and industry convene to
share Big Data best practices. This is a must attend event for any
organization or agency looking to be information-driven and give access to
more data to more resources and applications. During this info... (more)
By Bob Gourley
It is time we all began to focus more on the coming age of a totally
networked, software-enhanced, continually enhancing, device enabled world.
No doubt you are already tracking the construct many are calling the
“Internet of Things” and you may have been pondering what this connected
world might look like. Now you have an opportunity to help shape this coming
age by participating with other thought leaders to build the future. Do so by
attending and engaging with others at the 21-22 May O’Reilly Solid
conference in San Francisco.
You can sign up with our CTOvisio... (more)
By Bob Gourley
New Release of ViSX Performance Storage Appliance OS Boosts Tier 1
Applications and VDI Performance by up to 10X While Supporting Existing NAS
and SAN Infrastructure Investments
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – February 25, 2014 – Astute Networks™,Inc., the
leading provider ofNetworked Flash™ appliances, today announced the
release of ViSX OS v5, the latest software release for the ViSX family of
Performance Storage Appliances. The ViSX continues to offer all solid state
flash performance at the industry’s lowest cost-per-GB and the highest IOPS
per dollar, with prices compa... (more)
Bob Gourley, former CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), is Founder and CTO of Crucial Point LLC, a technology research and advisory firm providing fact based technology reviews in support of venture capital, private equity and emerging technology firms. He has extensive industry experience in intelligence and security and was awarded an intelligence community meritorious achievement award by AFCEA in 2008, and has also been recognized as an Infoworld Top 25 CTO and as one of the most fascinating communicators in Government IT by GovFresh.
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