Kevin L. Jackson

 

Posts by Kevin L. Jackson

The disruptive impact of cloud computing is uprooting old industries and making way for new. Whereas change is not new, the rate of change may be accelerating faster than many imagined.

In the coming year, the cloud’s impact on business and government strategies will continue to accelerate, and it will be the biggest driver behind major IT decisions. This, in turn, will cause the biggest disruption to the IT industry in the past 25 years. Keep reading →

About a year ago, my friend Bob Gourley, an influential member of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA), called me up with an interesting request: “Will you help me out with this whitepaper? It should only take us a few months to get it done.”

Gourley had been asked to put together a whitepaper to address cloud computing for the Intelligence Community (IC). To be honest, many of my IC friends had long ago relegated cloud computing as nothing more than marketing hype. You can clearly imagine my surprise with this interest from one of the premier national security industry organizations! Keep reading →