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  • What we have done is to make it dramatically easier to navigate the corporate ladder

    Conways Law Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure — Melvin E. Conway. I’ve blogged previously on the topic of Technical Debt and ways to prevent and or overcome it. I’ve used my brilliant PowerPoint skills for pictures like this:…

  • „Hoe vind je het zelf gaan, Buurman?”

    „Hoe vind je het zelf gaan, Buurman?”

    „Hoe vind je het zelf gaan, Buurman?” Martijn Veldkamp "Strategic Technology Leader | Customer’s Virtual CTO | Salesforce Expert | Helping Businesses Drive…

  • LinkedIn acquired by Microsoft

    LinkedIn acquired by Microsoft

    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 million. Very few people lie on their public view-able and controllable resume.…

  • Distribution of Trust: Social Blockchain?

    The blockchain originally is the technology behind the bitcoin. It is essentially a ledger. Ledgers are the basis of much of the information technology that we rely daily on and are essentially nothing more than lists in which all data and its changes are recorded. Other registers operate in a similar manner. Identity information example,…

  • Cloud the new legacy?

    One thing is for certain, we will spend a good part of 2015 talking about, discussing and disagreeing on how we now need to move, deliver, transport, carry, send and integrate the various component elements that make up our Business Applications. The advent of Cloud, virtualization and managed hosting technologies means that we have all…

  • Cloud adoption! Do you have a strategy?

    As conversations about the Cloud continues to focus on IT’s inability at adoption (or the gap between IT and Business), organizations outside of IT continue their cloud adoption. While many of these efforts are considered Rogue or Shadow IT efforts and are frowned upon by the IT organization, they are simply a response to a…

  • Price reductions for IaaS lead to?

    In the last six months the continued decline in pricing for IaaS is a signal that more business is sought. IBM thinks that the prices and profit margins for x86s will be under continual pressure and they sold their server business to Lenovo. This shows that IBM thinks that the server hardware is already commoditized,…