How To Lead In The New Mobile Economy

How to lead in the new mobile economy

METISfiles analyst Pim Bilderbeek was the keynote speaker at the Innovation Group’s Mobile Summit in Milan this week. His presentation focused on the mobile economy that has emerged as a key engine of economic transformation. The figure below provides a graphical representation of four major themes that were addressed. Mobile is a game changer for [...] Read more »

Big Data, Big Decisions: Dutch Datacenter & Hosting Summit 2012

The METISfiles - Big Data Big Decisions

  DDHS hosted it annual conference in De Meervaart focussing on Big Data and its potential benefits to the enterprise. Both the IT industry and IT end-user community realise that the stakes are high and that unleashing the full potential of Big Data will be a central theme for organization’s information strategies for the years [...] Read more »

The Future Of The Network Is Software Defined

software defined networking

Last week we attended the NetEvents EMEA Press and Analyst Summit. Part of the 2-day program was a debate session on Software Defined Networks (SDN) with panellists from Gartner, IDC, IBM, Dell, HP, Extreme Networks, Enterasys and yours truly. The debate centred on the question who is first to ride the SDN revolution, the Enterprise, [...] Read more »

Office For Rent: Will Consumers Buy It?

MS 365 2012

On the face of it $99 per year for MS Office doesn’t sound like an awful lot of money. Remember the time a full Office license set you back some $499? That was back in the days when we needed digital tools to do our increasingly digital tasks. Writing, storing, calculating and communicating were key [...] Read more »

How Smart Should The Smart Home Really Be?

HomeOS2

Ever thought about connecting all electronic devices in your home and controlling them with the touch of your fingertips or voice command? Chances are you did but dropped the idea as it seems too complicated or just too expensive; not worth the trouble. The IT revolution has certainly not bypassed our homes. A lot of [...] Read more »

The Future Of Communications Is Inside The App

The Future Of Communications

There is a two trillion dollar fixed and mobile communications market out there that is about to find out that both communications and connectivity could quickly become feature and function rather than product and service. Already communications is rapidly being unbundled from the underlying network. Skype, WebEx, and Lync are just a couple of examples [...] Read more »