If You Have a Hammer Everything Looks Like a Nail

While most of the EMC news is about the takeover by Dell and what to do with VMware, EMC still has a business to run. Part of running a business is to let everyone know you are still very relevant. That is of course the task of marketing operations and is usually done by pushing […] Read more »

Where To Next For Systems Infrastructure Vendors? – Part II

Nearly three years ago we wrote about the existential crisis that systems infrastructure vendors faced: will the future systems infrastructure vendor be selling on-premise systems to enterprises, on-premise systems to independent IaaS players, or selling IaaS services to both? The crisis has not gone away and vendors are reshuffling their cards and stacking the deck […] Read more »

Track the 2015 changes in Converged Infrastructure and Integrated Systems

We are teaming up with ITCandor to provide more top-notch research on the current market and future trends for CIandIS offerings, including end-user, service provider and vendor insight, forecasts and market shares. Click here to download our flyer and discover the advantages of sponsoring these activities.. .. or contact Martin or Pim to book a […] Read more »

Research Focus 2014

We thought it would be only fitting to dedicate our first blog entry in the new year to our research program for 2014. Last year we focused on three research topics, check out the links below for more information: The Dutch Public Cloudscape – covering the top 200 Dutch Public Cloud Computing companies. Converged Infrastructure […] Read more »

HP Converged Systems – New Business Unit, New Systems

HP ConvergedSystem Highlights Launches ConvergedSystem brand and adjusts the organisation, brand, offerings and features Improves the ordering process Continues to focus on indirect sales Adds OneView secret sauce orchestration software Announces 5 new ConvergedSystems Moves up the CIandIS stack Will need to move rapidly to address 2014 opportunities In our view HP’s approach to Converged […] Read more »

Hyperscale, Hyperconvergence and Hyperappliance

We are at the beginning of a significant shift in system and supplier strategies, where established and acquired Intellectual Property is being used to get closer to a complete offering than the days of the mainframe and Unix minicomputers. These systems differ in being built for the large part on standard components and incorporating some […] Read more »