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Steve OHearn Buzzword watch: Cloud Computing

I just read a post online by someone with a California police department who speaks of Google's recent agreement with Los Angeles to bring in Google's email platform to serve a local government office. This is described, in the post, as "cloud computing". Technically it is cloud computing. But this particular form of cloud computing is nothing new. Email online - through a web browser - has been around for years, since at least the mid-1990's. The reason many people didn't use webmail back in t… Continue

Added by Steve OHearn on November 2, 2009 at 8:01am — No Comments

Steve OHearn We Don't Need Farms Any More, We Have Grocery Stores Now

This morning's tech journals are carrying reports that the U.S. federal government's chief CIO Vivek Kundra has warned U.S. federal agencies to prepare for a "data deluge" as Web 2.0 applications ramp up in usage. But this quote got my attention: at the July 21 Open Government and Innovations Conference, Kundra reportedly stated that "'[t]his notion of thinking about data in a structured, relational database is dead" [… Continue

Added by Steve OHearn on July 23, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Steve OHearn IT Acquisition Reform

There's a great article today at DefenseLink about the need for information technology acquisition reform on behalf of the DoD. The bottom line: current IT acquisition is patterned after conventional weapons systems acquisition in ways that suited large scale industrial manufacturing, but run counter to the nature of the speedy development, adoption, and enhancements of information technology. It's not new to make this observation about I… Continue

Added by Steve OHearn on July 10, 2009 at 12:41pm — No Comments

Steve OHearn Shock drowning at 47 years old: R.I.P. Rajeev Motwani

I just read that Rajeev Motwani was found dead Friday in the pool of his Palo Alto home. Very bizarre. Motwani was the 47 year old Stanford professor who served as inspiration and advisor to many Silicon Valley success stories. Google co-founder Sergey Brin posted a reflection on Motwani on his blog on Friday. Perhaps we'll hear more as a complete report of the cause of his death becomes public. But in the m… Continue

Added by Steve OHearn on June 8, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

Steve OHearn Online Technology and Journalism

Today I met with my fellow members of the National Press Club's "Joan Friedenberg Online Journalism Awards" committee. Together we selected the results for this year's awards categories, to be officially announced by press release from the Club, later this year. As good as previous years' candidates have been, this year's submissions were even more advanced, displaying better uses of technology, more innovat… Continue

Added by Steve OHearn on June 5, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Steve OHearn GPS and Airliners

The US Navy this morning announced that they are joining the search for the missing Air France airliner, which disappeared off of radar early yesterday morning while en route from Brazil to Paris. The situation leaves me wondering ... isn't there global positioning satellite (GPS) capability on… Continue

Added by Steve OHearn on June 3, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

Steve OHearn Oracle and Primavera


Starting this Friday (June 5, 2009), the Primavera.com website will begin autoforwarding to the Oracle corporate website. The acquisition by Oracle Corporation of Primavera is another in a long line of acquisitions by Oracle, and a worthy one for the software giant. Primavera software is a respected project management software platfor… Continue

Added by Steve OHearn on June 2, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

Steve OHearn Cyber Czar: Long Overdue

Friday's announcement by President Obama concerning his appointment of a national director for cyber security is appropriate. But it would be a mistake to assume that this new announcement from the White House somehow implies that nobody in the federal government has been concerned with cy… Continue

Added by Steve OHearn on June 1, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

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