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The latest target in the ongoing merger frenzy is ReasonNet, acquired by Sentia. Sentia already assimilated PaaSplaza and Jitscale. The ‘Sentia Groep’ now claims 160 employees and € 30 million of annual revenues. We expect more activity in the cloud & hosting sector this year as we believe acquiring scale through an active merger & […] Read more »
In 2014, AWS generated $4.6B, growing 49%. In 2013, AWS generated $3.1B, growing 69%. AWS as a business is now 7% of Amazon’s overall net sales. If AWS’s run rate continues as it is now, we estimate it will generate $7.2B net sales in 2015, a growth of 57%. AWS is a profitable business. In […] Read more »
Robots are hot these days. Until recently only some people feared that robots could and would take over much of our work. Most economists still believe that robots will free workers from laborious monotonous work in sweat shops. They will also readily admit that robots are about to take over more skilled work as well. […] Read more »
Local cloud and hosting providers increasingly seek alliances with global cloud suppliers. Global cloud suppliers increasingly seek local presence and open up private links to their infrastructure. Data centre providers are the new cloud hubs that bring global and local clouds together. There is plenty going on in Europe at the moment. Global cloud suppliers […] Read more »
Three weeks ago we published our Top 1000 European public cloud computing providers infographic, covering the local cloud provider ecosystem in Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and the UK. The infographic shows, amongst other insights, that 71% of European cloud providers are SaaS providers and that 54% of those partner with an IaaS vendor for managing […] Read more »
After years of speculation Amazon.nl finally went live. In 2011 we reported on Amazon’s international European expansion. Back in those days Italy and Spain were considered larger markets offering more opportunity for Amazon. In the Netherlands, Amazon will initially start selling 20.000 out of 35.000 existing Dutch e-book titles, and of course its 3 million […] Read more »