Source to Success
Privatization did beautiful things for a few people. Overnight some became CEO of a large incumbent giving them much prestige and ample salary. For consumers the benefits of privatization, a much more market driven and henceforth efficient company, never emerged. A parliamentary investigation committee into the privatization of telephone and postal services, railways, coaching of […] Read more »
Another one bites the dust. Yesterday KPN acquired managed hosting and cloud provider IS Group. IS Group is an independent cloud and hosting provider headquartered in Purmerend with approximately 130 employees and annual revenues of € 25 million. KPN is strengthening its position on the Dutch cloud and hosting market. For this purpose it acquired […] Read more »
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 »
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 »
While Mexican operator America Movil has announced plans to launch a full takeover bid for KPN, privately held Dutch Nimbuzz could be about to become an Indian mobile operator. The two companies could not be more different, although both facilitate communications. KPN’s heritage dates back a hundred years at least. KPN owns (essential) network infrastructure […] Read more »
There is more than just private, public, and hybrid cloud. Many IT customers will need to orchestrate a hybrid mix of cloud and non-cloud IT resources for some time. This opens up opportunities for vendors to help customers aggregate and integrate a hybrid mix of private and public IT services. Service aggregation is about bundling […] Read more »