Author: MartijnVeldkamp
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LinkedIn acquired by Microsoft
https://blog.linkedin.com/2016/06/13/microsoft-and-linkedin LinkedIn acquired by Microsoft /A Martijn Veldkamp /A December 6, 2016 LinkedIn acquired by Microsoft for a whopping $26.1 billion. But why? LinkedIn is essentially the Facebook of the business world, and the digital repository of most of the world’s resumes. LinkedIn has roughly 100 million members in Europe of a total of 450…
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Blockchain could solve Data Integrity problems
https://imgur.com/gallery/rEbC1/new Blockchain could solve Data Integrity problems /A Martijn Veldkamp /A September 7, 2016 As the world relies more heavily on data as the basis for critical decision-making, it is vital that this data can be trusted. And that trust is the key issue here. People (Data Scientists, Chief Innovation Officers) are looking for ways…
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All this availability of data connection makes me feel nostalgic
When I first started my journey online I was still on dial-up. Once every while, I listened to the whirly noises the little grey box on my computer made as it performed a ‘handshake’ with another modem somewhere. Like magic, I was online and I used those few expensive minutes to connect to a BBS,…
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“Who’s on First?”
The movie Purple Rain mixes up with Abbot and Costello Morris: Okay. What’s the password? Jerome: You got it. Morris: Got what? Jerome: The password. Morris: The password is what? Jerome: Exactly. Morris: The password is exactly? Jerome: No, it’s okay. Morris: The password is okay? Jerome: Far as I’m concerned. Morris: Damn it, say…
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“Who’s on First?”
"Who’s on First?" The movie Purple Rain mixes up with Abbot and Costello Morris: Okay. What’s the password? Jerome: You got it. Morris: Got what? Jerome: The…
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New platform lets people make money leaking confidential files
A team of cryptographers and developers want to create a website where anyone can sell data sets to the highest bidder. "You’ll hate it," is the slogan of the…
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Cloud reliabilty
Reliability is often attributed as one of the reasons some organizations are wary of the cloud. Last week, Amazon, Rackspace and IBM had to “reboot” their clouds to deal with maintenance issues with the Xen hypervisor. Details were scarce but it was pretty quickly established that an unspecified vulnerability in the Xen hypervisor was the…
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Masterclass Serie 1 “CIO Office anno 2020” – (BE)DENKEN – Van visie naar praktisch uitvoerbaar Actieplan
Masterclass Serie 1 "CIO Office anno 2020" – (BE)DENKEN – Van visie naar praktisch uitvoerbaar Actieplan Martijn Veldkamp "Strategic Technology Leader |…
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The Cloud has landed! It’s become Foggy
We’re about to go back once again in the circle to decentralize and give a greater role to local storage and computing power. It depends on the nature and the amount of data that needs to be store and it’s process demands. With the rise of the amount of data because of the ‘Internet of…