Abstract. Communications network analysis and performance optimization is a complex and difficult task, even at the best of times. However, when this process takes place in multiple countries with extreme topography, communication links and networks of unpredictable and varying quality, climatic extremes, and with a backdrop of the longest war in US history, the challenge
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Interop NYC’s CIO Boot Camp was a great source of insight for technologists and executives alike. Here are the highlights: Cheryl Smith CIO West Jet, CEO emeritus/CIO emeritus McKesson & Keyspan Cheryl’s presentation, The First 90 Days, delivered insight into the process of getting started as a CIO. She stressed the importance of getting
Jam-packed with first person insight from acclaimed CIO’s, sessions were brilliantly facilitated by Thornton May. Cogent information delivered through interactive working groups kept a large room full of CIO, CTO and IT leaders fully engaged. The value takeaway was so rich in leadership content that I’m devoting this week’s blogs to what I learned from
In this inside look at how Pentagon IT Executives handle crisis, Director of the Information Technology Agency (Ret.) Fred Budd gives us a first hand account of the Pentagon 9/11 communications recovery effort. His personal story of 9/11 and the lessons learned during the lengthy recovery effort only reinforce the importance of proactive crisis avoidance,
Apalytics’ Principal Analyst Robert Booth discusses the role accurate documentation plays in preventing Network/System crises. Booth says that automated tools can greatly reduce the pain inherent in the creation and maintenance of the documentation used in the Crisis Avoidance process, and he explains why adding one more tool just might be a good idea. Firefighters
Every organization has a unique technology “fingerprint,” characterized not only by the products it has chosen to deploy, but also by the organization’s business culture and its impact on the technical evolution of the enterprise. Even organizations using identical collections of products are likely to have disparate technology fingerprints. These differences can arise because: network
