Buy Your Own Drone

Yes, that’s right, BYOD gets a whole different meaning. Buying your own drone will soon be available for the masses. Kickstarter is well known as a platform for kick starting innovative and creative ideas supported by funding from the crowd. One of its latest projects is the Pocket Drone from AirDroids. The pocket drone is […] Read more »

Research Focus 2014

We thought it would be only fitting to dedicate our first blog entry in the new year to our research program for 2014. Last year we focused on three research topics, check out the links below for more information: The Dutch Public Cloudscape – covering the top 200 Dutch Public Cloud Computing companies. Converged Infrastructure […] Read more »

Transformation: From Traditional To Digital Economy

The traditional definition of “economy” according to the Oxford Dictionary is “the state of a country or region in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services and the supply of money”. According to Wikipedia, the term “Digital Economy” refers to “an economy that is based on digital technologies. The digital economy is […] Read more »

Vodafone Investing In Industrial Scale Enterprise Platform With Mobile Core

Last week we attended Vodafone’s Enterprise Industry analyst event in London to get an update on Vodafone’s Enterprise strategy. Vodafone Group’s current Enterprise division, headed by Nick Jeffery, was formed in January this year after the Cable & Wireless takeover and has revenues of £12 billion  which is 27% of Vodafone Group’s overall annual revenue. […] Read more »

Bling Phones Mark Maturing Smartphone Market

The introduction of the iPhone 5 was carefully planned by Apple management, leaving nothing to chance. As a result most people and especially Apple fanboys were expecting nothing less than another giant leap for mankind and were willing to spend the night in front of the Apple store to not miss out on the first […] Read more »

Digital Society Depends On Robust Digital Infrastructure

So much became clear yesterday when a power failure at Easynet’s Schiphol datacenter affected the proper functioning of parts of the traditional, connected and online economy. It took about 1.5 hours before Easynet went public with a tweet and about 11 hours before services were fully restored: We suffered a power failure in our Schipol […] Read more »