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Recent announcements show that communications service providers are busy beefing up their cloud efforts. TIBCO Extends Reach of its Enterprise Social Network tibbr with KPN and Amazon Web Services KPN’s Grip platform is squarely aimed at the multinational and large enterprise market. With Grip, CIOs can create a private cloud aggregation platform to serve up [...] Read more »
Yesterday Dutch cable operator Ziggo announced the acquisition of Esprit Telecom, valued at €18 million. Esprit Telecom sells voice, data and hosting services to Dutch small and medium enterprises (SME). In 2012, Esprit Telecom – together with its subsidiary Zoranet – generated revenues of €37 million with 100 employees. In 2012, Ziggo Business generated €106 [...] Read more »
We wrote about KPN’s Software Online offerings for the SMB market earlier, highlighting KPN’s somewhat broad definition of cloud. Since then, 50.000 new subscriptions have been added bringing the total to 200.000. KPN Software Online also expanded its core SaaS offerings through adding new functional domains and some mobility options (have a look at our [...] Read more »
Cloud stuff is happening with the Dutch incumbent. KPN Business has had its own cloud business for a while. KPN Corporate is selling cloud, most notably the Assured Dutch Cloud. Now KPN Wholesale has joined the ranks and launched the Open Cloud Store. There is a nice infographic (Dutch) that explains the concept on the [...] Read more »
METISfiles analyst Pim Bilderbeek presented at the inaugural meeting of imellem this week, a new member-based networking platform for executives in the Dutch IT and Telecom sector. The presentation focused on the unique aspects of the Dutch telecoms market and the challenges that operators face to remain relevant in a rapidly changing regulatory, customer, and [...] Read more »
Or can it? Fact: The negative trend continues in Q3 2012. We wrote a quick analysis on the downward trend in 2011 earlier this year. Peter Vermeulen of research house PB7 just concluded that the big four (Atos, KPN, Cap, Ordina) combined dropped 7% in revenue in Q3, similar to Q2 and Q1. The problem [...] Read more »