Jen, it's not the total I question. It's how they select the contractors. The private sector learned long ago that using the lowest bid IT contractors often gets you what you pay for. The goverenment strings together dozens...
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That's an interesting point Wyatt -- what market does Google want? Is it content to serve web businesses and tech startups, or will it go after more enterprise IT computing? This suggests to me that Google is thinking mass...
In reply to: Re: Google + FedRAMP
Point 2 is often the hardest to get past. i love the Angry birds example of encouraging people to speak up even when it is hard.
In reply to: Elephants In the Room
Google goes after Amazon EBS. Do you readers see it as Amazon's Achilles heel, too?
In reply to: Amazon EBS
Good discussion. I try (not easy) to separate the business process opportunities/issues (e.g. ERP, internet enabled, mobile, etc.) from the business model itself. A manufacturer can become more effective/effecient using...
In reply to: Re: Not everyone is a digital business
Creatitivity is something robots and AI will always find hard to emulate, so make sure you stay in an industry that requires creativity for maximum performance and you should be safe. For now.
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Google really seems to be gunning for Amazon market share at the moment, tackling it in the storage arena and potentially in delivery and home shopping thanks to its robotics and driveless cat technologies. It'll be interesting...
In reply to: Face Off
I confess I did not try very hard, but I found not a single statement anywhere telling us about the technology platform for HealthCare.Gov ... Under the circumstances, I cannot imagine how anybody could comment constructively...
In reply to: Does anyone even know what HealthCare.Gov is built on?
Good question, David. In the case of DrFirst, they've brought in some big guns from the medical and technology fields, but your question is very valid.
In reply to: Re: hack
The Unix server stats are pretty grim. IBM was up in units but down in revenue as described above. Oracle was -22% on units and -25% on revenue. HP was -22% on units and -37% on revenue. Fujistu was -16% on units and -33%...
In reply to: Unix death spiral?
This one was a government IT system and one that's been around for a while. I wonder if commercial products would be more or less vulnerable.
In reply to: Re: hack
Re: David F. Carr Compartmentalization has fallen out of favor with many youmger technical personnel as it seen as repetitive. If so, why not simply make a generic\reusable component out of such code? I have worked...
In reply to: Re: Fix HealthCare.gov with a new site that is highly compartmentalized...
It's clear why IT wants standards, and why hardware makers and established vendors like Microsoft tend to play (at least somewhat) nicely in the standards sandbox, even if they'd prefer not to. But why should Amazon or...
In reply to: Why should vendors play along?
In World War Z, a Mossad agent explains that Israel built the wall against zombies because one person in the group is charged with asking, essentially, "What if X is true?" with X being a wildly unlikely scenario. Like...
In reply to: Devil's Advocate
With the proliferation of electronic health records, we will unfortunately be seeing more of these stories. Security will become increasingly important in the recording, storing and transferring of information. The private...
In reply to: More security needed
This one was caught, but it does make you wonder about all the vulnerabilities that were not spotted before a hacker makes use of them.
In reply to: hack
My first action would be to determine exactly what is expected. It is hard to "fix" if you do not know what a fixed system does...
In reply to: Goal setting
@thomas ha, like skeet shooting, only it would be drones instead of clay disks.
In reply to: Re: Launch drone, eclipse privacy
If you're listening do me a favor, find one of the many companies that are working to emulate x86 on ARM processors and give them a bump or build something in house that runs seamlessly with Win8. I don't...
In reply to: Dear Microsoft
Transparency Market Research is Published new Market Report "Cardiac Prosthetic Devices Market (Mechanical Heart Valves, Tissue Heart Valves, Transcatheter Heart Valves, Implantable Pacemaker and External Pacemaker)- Global...
In reply to: Global Cardiac Prosthetic Devices Market Will Reach 5.3 Billion By 2019 : Transparency Market Research
Why is it that when people tallk abut the undoubted benefits of social business (or indeed social media) they feel impelled to use such emotive language as this. It's like you are running a schol for trainee evangelists,...
In reply to: Social business evangelists
InformationWeek December 2013 Special IssueHybrid cloud standards promise a more open future, free of inflexible ties to vendors.
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Enterprise cloud adoption has evolved to the point where hybrid public/private cloud designs and use of multiple providers is common. Who among us has mastered provisioning resources in different clouds; allocating the right resources to each application; assigning applications to the "best" cloud provider based on performance or reliability requirements.
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