I’m not really sure were to file this, and am not convinced it is going to be helpful news you can use as an enterprise CTO. But it is something I feel compelled to share with you.
The video embedded below is a mix of art and science.
It is one of the CHARLI series humanoid robots doing Robot Gangnam Style!
I guess there are some lessons for the enterprise CTO. The key one you already know: Robots are coming! And of course you know that these guys will be connected to your IT, so you are going to have to maintain the interfaces and APIs to them. And you have probably already figured out that you and your team will be the ones dispatched to repair your robots. But you already knew that. Maybe the lesson here is that in the future when robots will be all over your enterprise you can expect to have lots of fun dancing with these great creations!
Bob Gourley, former CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), is Founder and CTO of Crucial Point LLC, a technology research and advisory firm providing fact based technology reviews in support of venture capital, private equity and emerging technology firms. He has extensive industry experience in intelligence and security and was awarded an intelligence community meritorious achievement award by AFCEA in 2008, and has also been recognized as an Infoworld Top 25 CTO and as one of the most fascinating communicators in Government IT by GovFresh.
Niklas Bjorkman wrote: Firstly I agree with your conclusion. NewSQL takes the best of the traditional databases and NoSQL databases to combine the benefits of both worlds. I do not agree that NewSQL vendors focus on giving scale-out features to transactional data. The NewSQL market is focusing on giving true ACID support combined with extreme performance, stepping away from the traditional relational structures in databases. A lot of developers appreciate the ease of accessing data using SQL and I think we will see more and more databases supporting standard SQL.
As you said - NewSQL databases often maintain the...
