Mr. Hans van Rietschote
Chief Executive Officer, Mercury Swan Consulting LLC
Member of the Technology Council
Council Member Biography
Hans van Rietschote is currently the CEO of Mercury Swan Consulting LLC. He served or is serving on the technical advisory boards of several companies including SonaSoft, BlueGem Security, Qlayer, SocialText, Panta Systems, and Transitive. For the past 10 years, he worked at Symantec/VERITAS) where he scouted thousands of technology companies of interest to the company. Mr. van Rietschote continues to monitor the top 10 technology trends that will have a serious impact on the software industry. Before Symantec/VERITAS, he spent more than 10 years at AT&T Bell Labs. Mr. Van Rietschote's expertise lies in the areas of SaaS, cloud computing, cloud services, cloud storage, virtualization for both the enterprise data center and the desktop, enterprise and consumer security, enterprise and consumer backup and enterprise and consumer storage technologies. (This is me - Update Profile)
Employment History
- 2009 - Unspecified
- Chief Executive Officer, Mercury Swan Consulting LLC
- 1999 - 2009
- Senior Director, SYMANTEC CORPORATION
- 1996 - 1999
- International Business Development Director, Origin Technology in Business
- 1994 - 1996
- Software engineering Research Department Head, KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
- 1980 - 1994
- several from 5ESS Software engineer to Account dir, ALCATEL LUCENT
GLG NewsSM Analyses by Hans van Rietschote
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Carriers running scared of Google (voice)
July 28, 2009
Apple Silences Google Voice On the iPhone | theappleblog.com
Carriers are running scared of Google entering their market with Google Voice. They are trying to block the Google Voice app for the iPhone but they don't seem to bother with the Android phones or the blackberries. Why is this?
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As the Twitter security breach and Sarah Palin's email account show: passwords are evil!
July 16, 2009
Lessons from Twitter's security breach | news.cnet.com
Passwords are evil: they are either easy to guess or the password recovery service allows the hacker easy access, as was shown by the Twitter "security breach" and the break-in into Sarah Palin's yahoo email address. But there are companies out there solving this problem, one of them is a stealth start-up called FortKnock.
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Why has Yahoo allowed themselves to become the RC Cola of search?
July 16, 2009
Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me | www.nytimes.com
Companies providing only Internet search do not have a long lifespan. Microsoft's main interest in acquiring Yahoo was not their Internet search technology but rather to use them in their fight against Google.
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Less desktops being sold but more netbooks/laptops being sold, what is going on?
July 14, 2009
Desktop PC Sales Decline For the First Time Since 2001 | gizmodo.com
PC desktop sales in Q1 2009 declined 8.1% compared to Q1 2008. And this is not due to the recession because sales of notebook PCs (laptops and netbooks) are up 11.7% for the same quarter. So what is going on?
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US and Europe joining to fight cyber crime?
July 13, 2009
U.S. and Europe Jointly Establish Cyber-Crime Force | online.wsj.com
From the headline in this article it sounds like the US and Europe are joining in a anti cyber crime task force. However if you read the details then it become clear that this is not really a giant project that will "prevent identity theft, computer hacking and other computer-based crime".
GLG Study Groups with Hans van Rietschote(?)
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
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| TMT Council Members in Member Programs | 18316 |
| Technology Council Members in Member Programs | 9587 |
| Colocation and Data Center Experts | 549 |
| Colocation and Data Center Experts (North America) | 421 |
| Network Security Experts | 247 |
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