By BobGourley The press release below caught my eye since it highlights a use case where real time access to terabytes of data is providing mission critical support to a commercial firm. Similar use cases exist in many other enterprises including the federal government. The solution uses Terracotta’s BigMemory solution. From the press release: TerracottaRead… Read more »
By BobGourley The MarkLogic Government Summit will be held 14 Nov 2012 in Washington DC. I’ve seen an advanced copy of the agenda, and it is looking awesome! It includes some real heroes of enterprise and government IT. Get more info and register here The following is from the event write-up With mission critical bigRead… Read more »
I decided I was going to read a book a week every couple of weeks for a year, here’s a quick review of this week’s book. You can see the ongoing list here. Basic Info Trust Me I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday Why I read it A buddy of mineRead… Read more »
Recently, as part of a survey of members of the Social Learning Centre, I put together a list of ten sites or apps I use a lot in my own learning activity. Actually, I thought ten was rather a lot, so to share it here, I thought I’d whittle it down to half that number.Read… Read more »
This is not the original title for this blog, the change is a bow towards the good folks on the ACT-KM listserv, some of whom are checking for a pulse on the teenaged wrist of Knowledge Management. The social graph used to be analog, fleeting and personal – which extended to our metaphors: “Whom doRead… Read more »
Jessica Hagy writing for Forbes.com: 1. Ignore the future, deal with the present. The question, “What should I be when I grow up?” is wrong. Ask instead, “What is next today?” People become fat one bite at a time, and we become adults one hour at a time, so what we do today matters. OriginalRead… Read more »
APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are a technique for interacting with data (usually on the web) which liberates users from relying on particular applications or having to do complex programming to reuse the data in interesting ways. Unfortunately few government agencies go the extra distance to release their data with an API, instead using specific dataRead… Read more »
By BobGourley “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind,” said Sir Winston Churchill at Harvard University in 1943. He frequently spoke of humanity’s minds in descriptions of the future and this is such an important point. It is our brains that give us both the vision for what we want theRead… Read more »
By AlexOlesker Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: White House sources confirm that Chinese hackers penetrated unclassified networks with a spear phishing attack against the White House Communications Agency. More here. Sequestration threatens the bipartisan agreement that cybersecurity needs more funding. More here. The White House gathered senior government leaders and privateRead… Read more »
By RyanKamauff Everyone’s favorite search engine is starting to really make some money Here are today’s top news and stories. Google’s (GOOG) stock price has been steadily growing for the past 3 months. Their current market cap is $248B, second only to Apple. Google’s Android is the leading mobile operating system for all smartphones, andRead… Read more »