Hans Timmerman

The AI swarms are rattling the gates of our digital castles. That is a serious security problem, but also an opportunity to rethink our architecture. For those who have long…

Digital archival management should not begin ten or twenty years later. It should begin as soon as information acquires value that we need or are required to preserve. Perhaps…

Perhaps the cloud was never the final destination. Perhaps it was simply an intermediate step. From physical servers to virtualized infrastructure. From centralized systems to…

A missile can destroy a data center. A war can disable an entire region. A cable can be cut. But perhaps none of these events should be capable of destroying our digital world.…

Creative destruction is rarely popular. Dismantling something that still works can feel like throwing money away. After all, there are many more attractive things we could spend…

The digital time bomb I wrote about in my previous blog is not a theoretical problem. Sometimes the information is in an old database. Sometimes it is in a backup. Sometimes it is…

Practical craftsmanship in trades and factories has largely disappeared through mechanisation, industrialisation and automation. And now AI agents and AI bots are doing the same…

Perhaps, then, we should take the term data-driven working a little less literally. Data should not drive us. Our goals should drive us. The outcomes we want to achieve. The…

It is no longer simply: “Is our IT secure?” The real question is: “Can we, as a board, demonstrate that we understand our digital risks, manage them, monitor them, and act…

Europe is growing older. That is a fact we cannot escape. But aging does not automatically mean economic decline. Higher productivity makes every worker more economically valuable…