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“Watch this space: Cloud Orchestration and your interoperability strategy”
Life for a CIO or CTO used to be complex. Then came Cloud Computing. Now life is even more complex. A year ago the Atos Scientific Community published a whitepaper on Cloud Computing. In the paper the...
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Watch this space: The power of moving pictures
When I came home from holiday, I connected my HD video-camera to my computer and was able to publish my recordings to YouTube in just 1 click (publishing on YouTube was actually even easier than...
View ArticleWatch this space: 6 reasons why Open Innovation is happening now
When is the last time you watched Sesame Street? I was thinking about a wonderful song that has been going around a long time on collaboration and co-operation. (see Sesame Street – “Cooperation Makes...
View ArticleWatch this space: Choose your friends wisely
Sharing your personal information with the founders of FaceBook, MySpace, Pinterest, Friendster, Twitter and LinkedIn is probably something you would think about twice. The association of your private...
View ArticleWatch this space: The PaaS cloud computing lock-in and how to avoid it
Cloud Computing changed from choosing an easy solution, into making a difficult decision. The reason is the proliferation of cloud offerings at all layers; today we do not only find...
View ArticleWatch this space: 3 reasons why you should embrace mobile payments
I once had to go through a very intensive security check because I left a 1 euro piece in my pocket. The pocket had a hole. The euro coin found is way in the fabric and I was setting off all alarms....
View ArticleWatch this space: How many batteries do you need to visit your mother?
I do not like batteries and I do not much like cars. So when my colleagues talk about these two things in 1 whitepaper you can understand it is something I cannot ignore. Batteries are empty when you...
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Watch this space: IT is from Mars, OT is from Venus
One of the many roles I have in Atos has to do with the partnership that Atos has established with Siemens. The challenge in my job is the fact the Atos, a pure IT service organisation, needs to...
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Watch this space: How big is your robot?
What do you get when you combine cloud computing, social networking, big data and modern day engineering? You get a kick-ass robot. This was my first thought when I finished reading a shortly to be...
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Watch this space: Three reasons to change the Internet now
Times are changing and we all need to adapt. The internet has had a major impact on all of our lives and continues to be a growing force in all aspects of society; in personal interactions, in...
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The ‘Data Explosion’ is real
In their recently published research, Ascent Journey 2016, the Atos Scientific Community considers the massive growth in data and storage as an important trend in IT. Whilst the concept of Big Data has...
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Watch this space: Would you like a cup of IT?
The change in the IT landscape brought about through the introduction of Cloud Computing is now driving a next generation of IT enablement. You might call it Cloud 2.0, but the term ‘Liquid IT’ much...
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Watch this space: A new business model in 3 easy steps
If you like curly fries you are probably intelligent (1). This insight comes from the University of Cambridge. The researchers analysed the data from Facebook to show that ‘surprisingly accurate...
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Watch this space: Curiosity drives cloud computing
I like asking questions and I like getting good answers even better. It is because of that, I now have a love / hate relationship with search engines. Most of the time they give me a 50% answer, a kind...
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Watch this space: The consequences of a stolen phone
Your wallet is stolen. You wanted to pay for your tall latte and it is gone. You search all of your pockets and looked around, bewildered. Maybe somebody found it and will hand it to you. No. It’s...
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Watch this space: Lucky # 7 – avoiding information overload
I feel much more at ease than I did yesterday. The reason is that I just read the newest whitepaper of the Atos Scientific Community on ‘Information Overload’. The paper explains, that in general we...
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Watch this space: IPv6 – your next cash cow?
For anybody looking at the next big thing, the new ‘killer app’ or the new gold, I recommend to read a new upcoming white paper by the Atos Scientific Community called “IPv6: How Soon is Now?”. The...
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Watch this space: Three (and more) disruptive changes in the media landscape
I am a news junkie; I eat, drink, snack, swallow and dine copiously on any news source. My starter is the newspaper in the morning, followed by a quick look at some of my favourites online. During the...
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Watch this space: Like Shopping? Prepare for something better
There are 3 reasons I never go shopping without my smart phone; first I need to be able to compare the price of what is on sale with the price I would pay elsewhere, secondly, I like to see a review of...
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Watch this space: Your future; now available in Real-Time
Imagine you have an automatically and real-time updated agenda – it continuously adapts your schedule to meetings taking longer, predicts and updates in real-time your travel-time to the next meetings...
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