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Data Sunt, Inepte! Copyright 2006
AFCEA TechNet 2006
AFCEA TechNet Europe
The Only Certainty is Change
“Data sunt, Inepte!”
October 2006
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Cost of Computing
Cost of Memory
Cost of Hardware
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Cost of Computing
Cost of Memory
Cost of Hardware
Systems Costs
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Technology & the Warfighter
Telegraph Telephone Computer VTC Web CognitiveTelegraph Telephone Computer VTC Web Cognitive Tools ToolsTools Tools
Time Line 1865 1914 1945 1991 1999 2010
Soldiers to Cover 102 Km
Data Transfer
Rate
Civil War WWI WWII Gulf War Kosovo EAF
38,830 4,040 300 24 ?
20 BPS 32 BPS 71 BPS ? GPS/TPS256 KBPS
1.544 MBPS
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Tech-nology
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..there was a time when a 1 inch cable provided 50 voice calls…
if you were lucky!
..today, that same 1 inch cable holds 432 Fibers @ 400 Gb/s each!
(173 Tb/s!!)
That’s equivalent to:
- 10 X the US population talking simultaneously
- All of the data stored in the US per year, transmitted in a single day- 100 X the worldwide internet traffic- Download the Library of Congress in > 1 hour
Gb/s: Gigabits (one billion bits) per second Tb/s: Terabits (one trillion bits) per second
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Historical Perspective
• In the beginning command was exercised personally.
• Better communications allowed for a wider span of command
• Globalisation and real-time facilities allow for “confusion of command”!
• Importance of not over-whelming commanders and subordinates with too much information.
• Must retain “clarity of mission”
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Technology ….not always the “be all and end all”!
TECHNOLOGYTECHNOLOGY
PEOPLEPEOPLE
PROCESSPROCESS
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“Tyranny of Choice”
•Happiness is limited information.
•People tend to see that which they wish to see.
•Heavy influence of media.
•More information is a turn-off.
•Only search for information where there is easy availability.
•Ignore data which might be inconvenient.
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The Human Condition
• How do we reconcile the rich but messy world of human life with the process driven, procedural, rule based approach demanded by technology?
• Are we forced into complexity or might we use the principles of “Ockam’s Razor”
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What about legacy systems?
• Legacy systems range from those that are old and unused any more to those which are still in active use.
• Traditional answer was to “migrate” systems to new standards.
• Legacy systems continue to be of utility.• Need to build on them – not destroy them!• Must have lower costs, faster delivery and
improved confidence.
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High Costs
• The problem is Legacy systems and the RDBMS:– Cost of scrubbing and cleaning data– Designed 30 years ago to minimise memory
requirement.– Normalisation and renormalisation– New business process-led initiatives vs. IT
driven projects
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So, what do we do?
• Need to keep the technology, organizations and people issues in synchronisation so that we can develop:– Better decision making by commanders– Better and more adaptable organisations– New supporting technologies
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Technical requirements
• Flexible system – mirroring human behaviour
• Allows information exchange with wide variety of databases
• Intuitive – and contextural• Responsive• Relatively cheap!• International standards
