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METISfiles principal analyst Marcel Warmerdam and Keala Consultancy managing director Ruud Alaerds presented at the Meet-the-Press event organized by MCS, The Communication Force and Yellow Communications on ‘The Value of Data’. Ruud and Marcel took a stab at issues that surround the ever increasing ocean of data and the efforts of businesses to unlock its […] Read more »
Colt just reported on its 2011 results. Last year we were a bit skeptic about Colt. All went well but no topline growth. Since 2005 Colt has undergone restructuring after reorganization to transform from a traditional voice driven carrier to a higher-end managed services provider by constantly investing in its network and managed services operation. […] Read more »
We can learn from the past. We can act in the present. We can speculate about the future. With the 20th anniversary of the world wide web only just behind us, the mainframe’s 45th anniversary two years ago, and the iPhone’s 5th anniversary coming up next year, a brief discussion on the past, present, and […] Read more »
Most people have never seen a mainframe. They think of them as a huge iron cabinet filling up a large clean room with attached to it green screen terminals pouring out ASCII code: a remnant of the past. Yet they have been around since the 1960s and are alive and kicking today. While many predicted […] Read more »
The METISfiles presented at the DatacenterWorks BICSI Conference in The Open, Tiel, on April 15. Pim Bilderbeek, Principal Analyst, wrapped up the event with a presentation on how Data Centers are changing under influence of the Cloud. The METISfiles argues that data centers are changing from vertical application oriented infrastructure pipes to horizontally connected layers. […] Read more »
Scenario planning is used by business strategists to prepare their companies for different futures. Why is this necessary? Simply because predicting the future is not an exact science. If the future cannot be known it is only prudent to be prepared for several permutations of possible futures. A popular way of scenario planning is sketching […] Read more »