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How a cloud-first enterprise application strategy boosts speed and scale for your business

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud-first applications support a manageable OpEx cost model, metered like a utility, as opposed to requiring significant upfront capital investments in infrastructure and software licenses. Nichol (@PeterBNichol) , chief technology officer at OROCA Innovations.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

It is my contention that when the total cost of using all your data exceeds what you are able to spend using purpose-built technologies, it is time to consider using a general purpose solution like Hadoop for process offloading. What is Big Data? However, this may not be the best fit for your use case(s) in terms of appropriateness or cost.

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- Thanks & Turkeys 2010

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

This week Chief Technology Officer Bill Schrier has a LOT for which to be thankful. Now the first networks are under construction. First are some of our technology vendors, a few of whom have ever increasing appetites for money. But I also have a few turkeys to carve.

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- A Peek at the National Broadband Plan

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

As a CTO, I’m so immersed in technology that I’m not sure “broadband” means anything to the average American (if an “average” American exists). A significant fraction of people know about broadband and what it means. The FCC also knows that funding will be required to construct these networks. The best of both worlds!

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Inside the chaos at Washington’s most connected military tech startup

Vox

Rebellion has also won several million dollars of military contracts from the Pentagon, the start of what some observers think will be a gusher of government dollars. The startup proclaimed to rebel against the entrenched government bureaucracy and, by extension, the military-industrial complex, in order to advance new technologies.