IT industry analyst firm The METISfiles has released updated versions of the Swedish and Danish Public Cloudscape. Designed to highlight the local XaaS provider ecosystem, Cloudscapes provide a snapshot of who the most important cloud providers are and in which cloud segments and categories they specialize. Versions 1.2 now visualize 250 (up from 200) Swedish […] Read more »
Betting on the Blockchain
With the Bitcoin exchange rate going skyhigh (1 XBT = € 2232 at 4/7/17) one could easily forget about the underlying technology: the blockchain. The Bitcoin blockchain technology can be regarded as a distributed ledger system in which the transactions are permanently time-stamped and stored on many computers simultaneously and made secure by cryptographic means. […] Read more »
IaaS Providers Prefer Azure, SaaS Providers Favour AWS
Today METISfiles presented at a DHPA network meeting for 20 Dutch (DHPA members) and 30 Danish hosting organisations (BFIH members). We recently updated our Danish and Swedish cloudscapes (we will publish more on this shortly) and talked about the similarities and differences between the Dutch and Danish hosting sectors. One of the details we highlighted […] Read more »
Top Four European SaaS Applications
Recently we published an infographic on the Top 1000 European SaaS Providers covering the European SaaS ecosystem. We now take a closer look at the characteristics of the top four SaaS applications: Communications, Finance/ERP, Online Workspace and CRM. Check out the table below for more information: On average 40% of all European SaaS providers provide […] Read more »
Leading IaaS Partners of European SaaS ISVs
A couple of weeks ago we published our Top 1500 European public cloud computing providers infographic, covering the local cloud provider ecosystem in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the UK. The infographic shows, amongst other insights, that 70% of European cloud providers are SaaS providers and that 57% of those partner […] Read more »
Microsoft Beefing Up Big Data Portfolio
Last week’s Microsoft event in Redmond contained mostly consumer centric news. Free upgrades to Windows 10 and the Hololens were the stars of the event. Nadella probably saves the business stuff for later. So nothing on the Microsoft cloud or where Azure is heading for. Nevertheless there was a sound bite that almost drowned in […] Read more »