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During a worldwide industry analyst briefing in September Citrix unveiled its vision on the future work environment of the connected worker. The event was organized to further elaborate on the Workspace Suite announcement in May earlier this year. For Mark Templeton, CEO of Citrix, it was a good time to reinstate Citrix’s commitment to support […] Read more »
We just finished a study on the digital agency market in The Netherlands commissioned by managed hosting provider True and in partnership with online business media & marketing publisher Emerce. 108 respondents of 96 digital agencies within an estimated population of 400 agencies responded to our web survey which covered digital agency distinctive capabilities, core […] Read more »
Of the 139 SaaS vendors we identified in our Spanish Cloudscape, 43% operate their own infrastructure. The other 57% partner with a hosting provider. Three quarters of those have their production site hosted outside Spain (see Figure below). The most popular hosting partners for Spanish SaaS vendors are all foreign companies. OVH (16%), Amazon (16%) […] Read more »
Earlier on METISfiles commented on the smart home concept. While we were wondering whether a smart home is such a good idea Microsoft and Google were moving forward with respectively HomeOS and Android@home, seeking to make a smart killing. Although both are developing holistic concepts for a smart automated home not much has been heard […] Read more »
We wrote about the InterCloud before, defining it as a globally interconnected data center grid offering elastic store and compute capabilities. The most prominent builders of the InterCloud today are Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Rackspace. They are all building general purpose global clouds with a focus on elasticity (see Figure below) and providing APIs for […] Read more »
Last week The METISfiles analyst Marcel Warmerdam was invited to join IDG’s webcast on desktop virtualization led by Tom Sanders. Other participants were William van Collenburg from VMware and Erik Lenten from Cisco. Here’s our take on it. Desktop Virtualization (DV) has been around for a while but, in all honesty, so far it has […] Read more »