State of the Dutch Cloud

Last week METISfiles presented on the state of the Dutch cloud at a press lunch organised by Lubbers De Jong and Rubrik. Our Cloudscore (see Figure above) looks at the current state of cloud demand, supply and infrastructure  and scores segments on a five point cloud maturity/adoption scale depending on how segments perform versus the […] Read more »

Citrix Shapeshifting to Cloud and IoT

Last week The METISfiles attended the Citrix analyst briefing in Santa Clara to hear about the plans and progress of Citrix after Kirill Tatarinov taking over as CEO from Mark Templeton earlier this year. Tatarinov has taken his time to go public with his business assessment of Citrix and his plans to get Citrix revenue […] Read more »

Persbericht: The METISfiles Nieuwe Kennispartner Dutch Hosting Providers Association

  Leidschendam, 7 juli 2016 – Per 1 juli 2016 is onderzoeks- en adviesbureau The METISfiles kennispartner van Dutch Hosting Provider Association (DHPA). Met deze samenwerking krijgen deelnemers en partners van DHPA met regelmaat inzicht in markttrends. Het gaat om ontwikkelingen op gebied van hosting, cloud en IT & communicatie in het algemeen en er […] 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 »

Segmentation and Differentiation In The Cloud & Hosting Market

The cloud & hosting provider landscape is extremely diverse. In this blog post we aim to provide some clarity into the different products and services that cloud and hosting providers deliver. Also, we take a quick look at how providers differentiate their offerings. From a product and services perspective we make a distinction between web, […] Read more »

BMC Walks the Walk But Can It Talk the Talk?

Earlier this month The METISfiles joined BMC’s analyst conference in London. Some analysts had a vague memory of the last BMC analyst meeting about 7 years ago but nobody was really sure. The reason is probably the fact that, after BMC was taken private in 2013, it took them 2 years to restructure the company […] Read more »