The Atos Scientific Community, in its recent research paper; Ascent Journey 2016, considers the challenge that an enterprise will have with business processes not confined to a single cloud but distributed across multiple clouds. The topic of cloud is no longer a hype. Cloud solutions in a variety of forms are now well established and read more
Lately we have seen Bitcoin surge and fall in value. At first, it was said to be down to the economic issues in Cyprus turning investors to look at other (safer?) forms of storing their money. And now, since I first started this article, collapse in value in under a less than a month. Is read more
The Atos Scientific Community, in its recent research paper; Ascent Journey 2016, considers the impact of combining video, multimedia and data on how people will interact on both a personal and organizational basis. Until not all that long ago, to organize a night out with my friends we would typically phone each other. In the read more
Atos’s recent publication Journey 2016 identifies Big Data as one of the transformational trends of our time. Indeed, there has been much made of the term Big Data in the last twelve months – with analysts, vendors and businesses keen to understand what the data explosion and associated technology innovation means to them. A cynical read more
About a year and a half ago in the Atos Scientific Community we started focusing on the importance that social media would have on other traditional forms of media, especially broadcasting. One of the main outcomes of this was our “Social Second Screen” where we analysed (and prepared an enduser app) the relationship and, in read more
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 been around for a number of years and is relatively well understood, it is now becoming clear that everything we do is read more
In his 2nd term inauguration speech on Monday, the US President said: “An economic recovery has begun … we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention.”. More by coincidence than design, yesterday the Atos Scientific Community’s read more
Let’s face it, with its new “Modern UI” interface, Windows 8 is far to get unanimity. Ones who love it blame Microsoft for not having fully eradicated the traditional desktop, leading to an inconsistent and weird user experience “That’s just a start menu, not an interface!“. Ones who hate it blame Microsoft for enforcing radical read more
TV shows often show us a sanitised version of the past, but disclosures such as Hillsborough show us the past as it really was. Looking at the past with the values of the present is always a shock – something we are all going to have to think about when our tweets of the present read more
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 knowledge management and the way we do business. In an upcoming whitepaper of the Atos Scientific Community, this read more
