Endemol Shine ICT – A Case for the Cloud

Last week we attended the AWS Summit in Utrecht and spoke briefly with Leon Backbier, ICT manager at Endemol Shine Netherlands.  AWS has helped them save approximately 70% in ICT investments and 30% on the operational side. And yes – they plan to expand their business with AWS, at the expense of Microsoft. Why the […] Read more »

Service Providers In A Hybrid Multi-Cloud World

We recently wrote about systems integration in a multi-cloud world and argued that IT services vendors should position themselves as cloud integrators and orchestrators to continue to play an important role for their customers. But there are more players in the value chain that will reposition themselves. The graph below provides a snapshot: Carriers – […] Read more »

Top 1000 European SaaS Providers

Recently we published an infographic on the Top 1500 European Public Cloud Computing Providers covering the European IaaS, PaaS and SaaS ecosystem. For a closer look at the characteristics of European SaaS companies we have now combined the nine countries we currently cover into a European SaaS Top 1000. Check out the table below for […] Read more »

Top 1500 European Public Cloud Computing Providers

In our continuing Cloudscape research efforts we now have covered Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the UK. If you have been following our research blog you will have noticed that for each country we cover we also provide some analysis on popular XaaS categories, hosting locations, and the ability to offer […] Read more »

System Integration In A Multi-Cloud World

Business leaders are looking at technology as a key strategic asset for dealing with the accelerated pace of change. Managers of customer facing business units are eager to unleash the full potential of Big Data. The cloud is becoming the connection between business and technology. How can IT services players harness the power of technology, […] Read more »

Less than Half of Finnish SaaS Vendors Hosted in Finland

Of the 74 SaaS vendors we identified in our Finnish cloudscape, 47% operate their own infrastructure. The other 53% partner with a hosting provider. Less than half of those (49%) have their production site hosted inside Finland (see Figure below). The most popular hosting partners for Finnish SaaS vendors are Amazon (27%), Microsoft (5%), Hetzner […] Read more »