Help Shape The Future Of Enterprise IT In The Federal Sector By Engaging With the CTO Community

By Bob Gourley CTOvision provides information and assessments you can use including assessments on the future of IT. And we build these assessments in collaboration with a broad community of enterprise technology with CIO, CTO, CISO, CDO backgrounds. We love engaging with technologists like you and would appreciate your continued engagement. Below are some ofRead… Read more »

Shielding Yourself from Sequestration

by Chris Wiedemann, Analyst If you had a chance to view immixGroup’s Market Intelligence briefing on sequestration yesterday, you hopefully have a better understanding of what the proposed cuts mean to IT companies. Tim Larkins summarized the history of this situation – what sequestration is, when it became law, and just how those cuts (whichRead… Read more »

Did Oracle Just Throw Their Salesforce Under The Bus?

By Bob Gourley If you are a technologist I hope you love the great technology portfolio assembled by Oracle. It is really something to be admired. And the well engineered optimized configurations of hardware and software like the Oracle Big Data Appliance are so awesome I think most enterprises should get one. But there areRead… Read more »

22 March CTOvision Podcast: Weekly Mobile News

By Ryan Kamauff In this podcast I discuss some of the weeks’ mobile news. Including the following: Jawbone bringing the UP bracelet application to Android Google Merging Android and Chrome OS Watching NCAA Tournament buzzer beaters Amazon’s $99 tablet and how it will affect Apple Google Keep, their note taking capability Subdermal bluetooth implants CTOvisionRead… Read more »

It’s Not About You

A Highlight from the upcoming NAGC Communications School. The foundation of any good communication is a clear message that resonates with the target audience. But if a message is not clear, the story the media tells may not be the one you want to tell. Don’t miss Jennifer Miller, senior counselor of Rockford Gray LLC,Read… Read more »

Imagining the future

There is a lot of pseudo-scientific claptrap published about the future. There are people who carefully extrapolate trends, construct complex scenarios, weight many outcomes, some of whom necessarily get some things right through sheer chance, but many of whom appear to rely on nobody checking back from the future to see how well they did.Read… Read more »

The Perils of Open Conversation

A global police tweet-a-thon is going on right now. (hashtag #poltwt) However, the open and anonymous nature of Twitter is disrupting a thread of highly productive conversation. A hashtag was chosen and it didn’t take long before there were porn and clearly fake police postings popping up. I’ve participated in more than a few government-orientedRead… Read more »