Hidden Figures, by Anke Hollanders

My name is Anke Hollanders, I am currently working as an IT architect in the Global Technology Services department of IBM. Technology has been the leading subject throughout my career. I have been working for IBM for 20 years; started as a Unix System Engineer and later grew into the IT architect role. When I […]

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Why tell customers about their personal data? Just because GDPR says so?

Transparency is one of the key parts of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with which companies must comply by May 25, 2018. Personally I find this very surprising. I’m not talking about the fact that under this new legislation, individuals gain the right to know what personal data an organization has collected […]

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Pact 4 Youth leaders meeting

Making business-education partnerships the new normal. Brussels, 22nd of December- One year ago the European Commission together with CSR Europe, IBM, Nestlé, Solvay and several other companies launched the Pact 4 Youth, a partnership to make business-education collaboration the “new normal” across Europe. It’s a mutual commitment to support the creation of 10,000 quality business-education […]

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Impact grant for employment agency VDAB

Watson tackles youth unemployment. How long and why do young people stay unemployed after entering the labor market? And what actions are the most effective to help them find a job quicker? An IBM Impact Grant helps the Flemish Employment Agency (VDAB) answer these important questions. In just ten weeks, IBM consultants delivered a predictive […]

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Tijd om de beveiliging van onze smartphones waterdicht te maken

Door Eric Bos, Security Consultant Enterprise Mobility bij IBM |  De helft van de Belgen heeft een smartphone. Wereldwijd zullen er tegen 2020 volgens Forrester Research meer dan 5,4 miljard actieve toestellen in gebruik zijn. De laatste jaren is mobiele malware één van de voornaamste kopzorgen geworden van CIO’s en andere directeurs. (Lees hier waarom […]

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IBM Watson Data Platform: Make Data & Analytics Simple

Blogpost by Niko Tambuyser | So you hire a bunch of young and ambitious data scientists to extract true value from your data. And then you find out that they really like open-source software, and that they all have their own tools they prefer using – making it really hard to work together and reach […]

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Extend your VMWare environment into the Cloud

Cloud computing can be a great enabler to deliver business value in terms of cost, speed, flexibility and security. But integration, extension and migration of workloads has to be done deliberately. Within the cloud the dynamics is very similar to what we have seen in the mobile space, where thousands of different apps all work […]

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IBM and VMware enable seamless Hybrid Cloud

Blogpost by Bart Bogaert | As companies make plans to move workloads to the cloud, the virtualization factor seemed to be the last hurdle. Thanks to IBM and VMware’s strategic partnership, that hurdle now belongs to the past. Here’s the thing: until recently, moving a completely virtualized server farm from an on-premise data center to […]

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De clou van Cloud

Blogpost van Michiel Schouten | Geen enkele organisatie die zijn klanten centraal stelt, zijn processen standaardiseert en snel en wendbaar wil opereren kan nog om de cloud heen. Cloud technologie is onontbeerlijk geworden voor het behalen van deze business doeleinden. Het afgelopen decennium hebben we dan ook kunnen zien dat Cloud in vele vormen en […]

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