The Amazon Cloud Has Arrived In Germany

Today, Martin Geier, Managing Director AWS Germany and Andy Jassi, SVP AWS, announced the immediate availability of the 11th AWS region: EU (Frankfurt). The new region has two availability zones, eu-central-1a and eu-central-1b. At the press conference Andy Jassy mentioned three key reasons for launching a new AWS region in the EU and particularly in […] Read more »

Future Of The Desktop: Software Defined Workspace

During a worldwide industry analyst briefing in September Citrix unveiled its vision on the future work environment of the connected worker. The event was organized to further elaborate on the Workspace Suite announcement in May earlier this year. For Mark Templeton, CEO of Citrix, it was a good time to reinstate Citrix’s commitment to support […] Read more »

Five Out Of Six German SaaS Vendors Hosted In Germany

Of the 149 SaaS vendors we identified in our German Cloudscape, 50% operate their own infrastructure. The other 50% partner with a hosting provider. More than 80% of those have their production site hosted inside Germany (see Figure below). The most popular hosting partners for German SaaS vendors are Hetzner (15%), Host Europe (12%),  Amazon […] Read more »

Hosting Providers #1 Technology Partner of Digital Agencies

We just finished a study on the digital agency market in The Netherlands commissioned by managed hosting provider True and in partnership with online business media & marketing publisher Emerce. 108 respondents of  96 digital agencies within an estimated population of 400 agencies responded to our web survey which covered digital agency distinctive capabilities, core […] Read more »

Three out of Four Spanish SaaS Vendors Hosted Abroad

Of the 139 SaaS vendors we identified in our Spanish Cloudscape, 43% operate their own infrastructure. The other 57% partner with a hosting provider. Three quarters of those have their production site hosted outside Spain (see Figure below). The most popular hosting partners for Spanish SaaS vendors are all foreign companies. OVH (16%),  Amazon (16%) […] Read more »

Two out of Five UK SaaS Vendors Hosted Abroad

Of the 170 SaaS vendors we identified in our UK Cloudscape, about 50% operate their own infrastructure. The other half partners with a hosting provider. 40% of those have their production site hosted outside the UK (see Figure below). The most popular hosting partner for UK SaaS vendors are all non-UK companies. US providers Amazon […] Read more »