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Red Hat And FCC CIOs On the Future Of Tech (enterprisersproject.com)
StewBeans writes: At Evanta's recent CIO Executive Summit in Washington, D.C., two Enterprisers took the stage to discuss how CIOs can influence the future of business at the "tipping point" of technology and innovation today. David Bray, CIO of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, began the talk: "2013 was the year there was the same number of network devices on the face of the planet as there were humans -- seven billion network devices on the face of the planet, seven billion humans. Now 2015, just two years later, we're at 14 billion network devices on the face of the planet." This set the stage for a conversation on the future of technology that touched on everything from Moore's Law to the consumerization of technology, global connectivity, and mass personalization. Bray and co-presenter Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat, shared their predictions and insights into how all businesses will need to evolve and adapt to a future in which they have less control.
I only want to know the important thing: When will my toaster get an IP address so I can watch my toast toast from my smart phone while sitting on the can for my morning constitutional?
In fact, can we please have an IP-based rectal sensor that will pair with my smart phone and tell it when I'm almost done, so the phone can tell the toaster to start toasting? That way, I can have nice, hot, crispy toast the moment after I flush my giant deposit down the toilet.
Did they talk about the reprehensible outsourcing going on? This will kill the IT industry for the US.
Let's make the watch worthwhile.
Sad that of the umpteen billion devices, about 1 billion is running Windows and that small number is threatening the security of everything else.
Even though the summary wasn't very promising, I went ahead and read TFA, hoping against the odds that there would be something insightful in it.
It's always so fucking annoying trying to pick out the right link that was "cleverly" hyperlinked in the body. Can you just put the fucking links at the bottom or something?
Why haven't you bought them then?
What? You don't have a spare Billion $$$ lying around?
Well, STFU then
At the end of the day, when we talk about technology change – whether it’s the Internet of Everything, big data, or machine learning – it’s really about people and organizational cultures, first and foremost. Then, it’s about how those people get stuff done together – and that's really what it comes down to when you talk about transforming organizational cultures. I think more and more C-suite leaders need to recognize themselves as being active designers, facilitators, and participants in a cultural transformation, and make strategic choices about what levers they employ to help make that happen.
CULTURE(S) CHANGE REQUIRED
would someone explain to me why we need to force diversity in amounts that are highly disproportionate to the people with the desire, qualifications and willingness to work for you? it's discrimination.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Your snarky remark makes no sense.
Red Hat is not some has-been company that is going out of business. Red Hat is bigger, and more influential, than ever.
To say: "how is blackberry still a thing?" might make sense. It might even make sense to say "how is IBM still a thing?"
But it does not make sense to say that about an up-and-coming Microsoft.
MS-DOS 6.0 directly plagiarized compression technology from Stac corp.
The first version of Microsoft Video for Windows was a direct plagiarism (by a contractor) of Apple's Quicktime.
Microsoft's Windows for Workgroups (Windows 3.11) contained networking code which was directly stolen from Novell's LOGIN.EXE program.
I'm sure there must be others; those are just the ones from back when I was actually paying attention to Microsoft.
But since then SCO, financed partly by Microsft, used lies and deception for years in order to argue an IP claim against Linux.
I'm not aware of anything Red Hat has "stolen" but rather many things they have contributed. It is fully permissible, indeed honorable to sell service and support for free software.