Bob Gourley

By Bob Gourley From: http://ctolink.us/16GZFF7 SpaceCurve Raises $10M Series B Financing Brings Unmatched Performance to Big Data Applications and Services SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 18, 2013– SpaceCurve, the creator of a new big data platform designed to meet the increasing ... (more)

By Bob Gourley If you are an enterprise technologist the driving factors in your technology selections are probably the discriminating functionality of the technology you are looking at mixed with factors like cost, simplicity, ability to work with your legacy environment, and o... (more)

By Bob Gourley We are beginning to formulate assessments on the potential impact to the federal technology community of some recent developments we believe will have far-reaching and positive impact. Over the last quarter Cloudera has continued to announce strategic partnerships... (more)

By Timothy Coleman A new study concludes that 70 percent of Federal IT executives deem “Big Data,” as a transformative lynchpin for mission critical work.  Published by MeriTalk, an online government IT resource, and sponsored by EMC Corporation, a leading provider of IT storage... (more)

By Bob Gourley With this note we provide some administrative reminders and information on how you can make the best use of the CTOvision.com Technology Discovery Platform. We also provide links that will let you add or remove yourself from our e-mail newsletters. CTOvision prov... (more)

By Ryan Kamauff Today’s data repositories are growing at a huge pace. Many vendors claim to have the panacea for data woes, but using only one vendor can often result in vendor lock-in (at great cost to the agency). Cleversafe is a unique data management product that is distribu... (more)

By Ryan Kamauff Apple held their annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference this week. Most of the internet is abuzz, everyone with an opinion of their own. They released details on new versions of OS X (now called Mavericks) and iOS 7. As well, the released new versions of their M... (more)

By ChrisScott The recently released summary of the Air-Sea Battle: Service Collaboration to Address Anti-Access and Area Denial Challenges provides interesting reading on how DoD is preparing to meet evolving threats. It’s a direct challenge to DoD components to work together an... (more)

By Bob Gourley AFCEA continues to help facilitate dialog on issues of importance to the nation regarding technology and national security. An event I believe you will find of high interest is their July 30-31 2013 Global Intelligence Forum. I have pasted information below from t... (more)

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Coasties don’t want expensive TISCOM laptops – According to a recent DHS audit, the Coast Guard is sitting on over 5,000 laptops in Coast Guard Telecommunications and Information Systems Command warehouses. These... (more)

By Bob Gourley Systems Integrators must put quality first or they will fail. Every integrator I know has processes in place to ensure program success. The best include rigorous reviews early in program life to help program managers succeed. Rigorous review processes check progra... (more)

By Ryan Kamauff In this podcast I interviewed Alicia Saia, Senior Manager, Solutions Marketing, Public Sector at MarkLogic. Alicia and I talked a lot about how MarkLogic is helping to change the way people look at data, how it integrates with their current generation and legacy ... (more)

By Markus Ehrenmueller Editor’s note: Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen is the author of Microsoft Business Tools, and is well positioned to provide context on ways users can better leverage these tools. -bg Big Data I can remember back in the beginning of my own school time, what a sen... (more)

By ChrisScott Some Traditions are NOT needed!  Back in the day… the process to transmit Navy messages included strict accountability and control and were hugely labor intensive.  But as official information exchange technologies become more prevalent, DoD transitioned to other m... (more)

By SeanLawson What started last week as a series of reports on domestic spying by the NSA took a turn towards cyber security on Friday when Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill of The Guardian published the top secret Presidential Policy Directive 20 (PPD–20), which deals with U.S... (more)

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Brace for malware-fighting IE, Office patches - Microsoft is finally patching the vulnerabilities in IE this week. The weakness is in versions 6-10 of the software. 19 of the 23 patches Microsoft is rolling out t... (more)

By Bob Gourley FCW is presenting an interesting session in DC 20 June 2013 which will focus on the new tools, technologies and management strategies bing developed to help government agencies manage and use their data to gain insights, solve problems and discover new info in the... (more)

By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: This guest post by Wayne Wheeles focuses on a topic I’ve struggled with for over a 15 years and shows great promise in addressing challenges no one else has tackled.  Wayne is a Network Forensics Analytic/Enrichment Developer at Six3 Systems. – bg ... (more)

By Bob Gourley One of the biggest problems in robotics deals with how a mobile device can know, with precision, where it is. This might sound easy to do but it is complicated by the fact that autonomous robots can move all over the place including over and through a variety of ... (more)

By Bob Gourley Are you a technologist considering a career shift? Here are some resources we hope you will find of use: For networking with other technologists, join our LinkedIn group on Disruptive IT.  The group focuses on enterprise technologists so you will be connecting wi... (more)