What can you do to make it more difficult for hackers to breach your systems and steal your and your customers’ data? Adequate protection in the form of more recent hardware, which is more secure, and in particular by using up-to-date software versions, including in the cloud.

As implementation and service partner to our customers, it is vitally important to keep up with these fast-paced evolutions and even try to stay ahead of them. That is why Realdolmen keeps both large technology brands and smaller start-ups on its radar. Realdolmen still succeeds in attaining and retaining the highest certifications for the top brands.

In the run-up to Valentine's Day, we organized Realdolmen's New Year's reception with a loving theme to match.

You’re sure to have heard of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) –technologies that are hot topics at the moment. All the major players are in on the craze: Microsoft with HoloLens, Google with Google Glass, and now Apple has introduced ARKit for developers. And this should come as no surprise because there’s lots of potential hiding in VR, AR and MR. But what’s the difference between them, exactly?

Under the motto "Eat your own dog food," we applied the principles of the ADKAR method to help our users with the migration of a classic file server to a SharePoint environment.

Training or supervision is apparently much too expensive, making it a popular scapegoat if the budget threatens to spiral out of control. Some colleagues – or should that be competitors? – go along with this logic and sacrifice quality for a few extra training days. This is a sacrifice I'm not willing to make…

For a long time, the prevailing attitude was that it was best to archive big data locally, because of the cloud’s high storage costs. The main players in the world of the cloud, such as Microsoft and Amazon, have however invested a lot in data storage drives for so-called cold storage, so storing archived data is now much cheaper in the public cloud than in any on-premise set-up.

A good start is halfway to a win, that's how we'd describe 2018 so far. After the audience award we received recently from VONK, the network for Internal Communication that rewards IC projects in Belgium with the "Golden Vonk" award, we're now on the shortlist for its European brother: the European FEIEA Awards. We're nominated in not one, but two categories: best in change communication strategy and best in Infographic, #Rproud. We owe our nomination to our internal communication strategy adopted during our successful transformation.

Three quarters of the world’s population will live in a city by 2020: a prediction that implies lots of challenges in terms of mobility, ecology and accommodation. But smart technology can help us live comfortably with more people in a smaller area. The smart city is still in its very early stages here, however, even though Flanders is one of the most urbanised regions in the world.

HP announced a worldwide voluntary safety recall and replacement program for certain notebook computer and mobile workstation batteries. These batteries have the potential to overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard to customers. For this reason, it is extremely important to check whether your battery is affected.

Are you scared of GDPR? Or not sure exactly what this General Data Protection Regulation means for you, and what you need to change before 25 May 2018? Are you reluctant to invest time and money in preparing for this date because you don't think you'll have any issues with lost or stolen personal data? That’s understandable, but it would be wiser to grasp the new regulations as an opportunity to change and improve your approach to protecting your data, IT systems and products.

Who is liable if a self-driving car causes an accident? And who on earth fills in the accident report? And then there’s car insurance… Who will you pay to insure your car in the future? An insurance company? The garage that fixes it? Amazon?
These burning questions – and a few less urgent ones – are the kinds of things that come up when you sit specialists from the world of insurance around a table to think about the future.