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

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Restructuring Plan Will Not Solve KPN’s Problems

The business market is the Achilles heel of KPN Netherlands and KPN IT Solutions is the Achilles heel of KPN Business. Between Q1 2013 and Q3 2014 KPN Netherlands lost a cumulative amount of € 182 million in revenues of which 35% can be attributed to KPN’s consumer division and 65% (€ 118 million) to […] Read more »

2015 Will Be A Very Interesting Year for Hybrid InterClouds

Local cloud and hosting providers increasingly seek alliances with global cloud suppliers. Global cloud suppliers increasingly seek local presence and open up private links to their infrastructure. Data centre providers are the new cloud hubs that bring global and local clouds together. There is plenty going on in Europe at the moment. Global cloud suppliers […] Read more »

HP Data Centers and The Cloud

The METISfiles presented at the official opening of HP’s second cloud data center in the Benelux in Mechelen this week. HP has been busy building out its cloud data center footprint across the world. In the Benelux customers now have the opportunity to source HP’s managed private and virtual cloud services from twin data centers […] 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 »