O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. Likewise, the term "architect" didn't enter popular usage to describe a role in the software field until the late 1990s. It must be useful, have utility.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The financial collapse of 2008 led to tighter regulation of banks and financial institutions. Cybersecurity itself was considered an esoteric backroom technology problem until we learned of the Equifax breach, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, Log4j vulnerability, and the massive SolarWinds hack. You think AI is scary now?

Social Media 111

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Media Government 111

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. It was much different in 2008. Social media was just coming into its own.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The storage backend is the software module directly managing the storage device attached to physical machines. To increase capacity, hard disk drive (HDD) vendors are introducing Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology. A distributed file system provides a unified view over aggregated storage from multiple physical machines.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The word "governance" is misused in IT, particularly in software development. As the financial crisis hit in 2008, it became glaringly obvious that few bank directors had any detailed understanding of either banking or risk.) The first - setting expectations - is to charter the business and approve the overall strategy for it.

Government 58

Government Strategy Technology Technology 58

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

There aren't a lot of high cards we can draw, but playing them in the right combination offers us a strategy. In much the same way as air traffic controllers are taught how to land planes in the event the software fails on them at a critical moment, former knowledge workers can help re-build our knowledge from the ground up.

Strategy 40

Strategy Java Code Systems 40

Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

Understanding previous technological revolutions will focus your digital strategy and help you thrive through the most turbulent economic event of our lifetime. A period of frenzied growth is turning into a mass extinction event for those companies that do not learn how to connect business operations to software delivery.

Government 109

Government Innovation Strategy Technology 109