security
The Writing on the Wall, Feeling secure
Blogpost by Frank van der Wal | Within a couple of weeks, we will wish our beloved ones and friends all the best for the new year. This is that time of the year that we feel close to our beloved ones and family. The darkest days of the year (if you are living on […]
Take care!
Mentioning Mobile, most people tend to think of the pretty little devices they sometime use to make a phone call. And of course very right so. On the other hand, you see the introduction of many other mobile devices you can’t make a phone call with, even if you would like to. The most recent […]
Data, on the move…
We know it all, data is the new oil and what makes the world go round. We express the amount of data in Bytes, and the prefix has gone up until Terra if we talk disk space in households and Peta in many companies. To put it in perspective: Terra is a 1 with 12 […]
The wrITing on the wall
In my last column I described PresenceInsight, a system developed by IBM Research to track mobile devices anonymously within a designated area. Some of the readers reacted with the obvious remarks about privacy. Although PresenceInsight is anonymous (tracking only the MAC address of the mobile device and not personal information) the question surfaced that if […]
Security & compliancy: 50 tinten cloud
Het mag dan weinig opwindend klinken, maar let’s face it: security & compliancy zijn hele belangrijke parameters bij de sourcing- en platformkeuze van organisaties. In het kader van cloud computing wordt dan vaak gesproken over ‘private’ versus ‘public’. En omdat de werkelijkheid veelal een mix van platformen omvat, wordt dan vaak de aanduiding ‘hybride cloud’ […]