Gebrek aan digitaal mainportbeleid bedreigt ruim 3 miljoen banen

Nederland wordt ingehaald als digitale mainport van de wereld; tijd voor fundamentele keuzes De Nederlandse digitale infrastructuur is een belangrijke motor voor digitalisering, banen en economische groei. In 2019 leverde elke €1 omzet maar liefst €15 aan toegevoegde waarde op voor de Nederlandse economie. De impact van digitalisering op de Nederlandse economie zal in 2025 […] Read more »

Why Data Centers and Cloud Providers are Indispensable

More and more industries are changing due to digitalisation. In the primary sectors (agriculture, forestry, fisheries and mining) the importance of sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) is increasing. Secondary sectors (industry, utilities and construction) are employing digital technologies such as Industry 4.0, IoT, Smart Grid and Building Information Modeling (BIM). The tertiary sector […] Read more »

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 »

Cloud for Europe, Europe for Cloud

This week we spoke at the SaaS Cloud Symposium of the Dutch ICT trade association. Theme for the day, inspired by the European Commission and its public sector cloud computing initiative was “Cloud for Europe, Europe for Cloud”. We kicked off the afternoon event with a presentation on the state of the Dutch Cloud (see […] 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 »

IT Through The Looking Glass – Why Your POV Matters

Lewis Carroll’s ‘Through the looking glass, and what Alice found there’ is the sequel to ‘Alice’s adventures in Wonderland’. In this sequel Alice explores an alternative version of the world by stepping through a mirror. Things are not quite the same in this alternative world. Chess pieces have come to life, flowers can speak and […] Read more »