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So much became clear yesterday when a power failure at Easynet’s Schiphol datacenter affected the proper functioning of parts of the traditional, connected and online economy. It took about 1.5 hours before Easynet went public with a tweet and about 11 hours before services were fully restored: We suffered a power failure in our Schipol […] Read more »
‘The World Is Flat’ by Thomas Friedman and ‘The Big Switch’ by Nicholas Carr are two bestsellers that deal with the globalisation of labour (Friedman) and the emergence of a global compute grid (Carr). Both phenomena are essentially driven by the Internet and computer revolution. Both phenomena are also having a profound effect on the […] Read more »
Monnickendam, 22 augustus 2013 – Onderzoeksbureau The METISfiles heeft een update gepubliceerd van het Nederlandse cloudlandschap. The Dutch Cloudscape (versie 1.2) omvat 184 bedrijven in de categorieën software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) en infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Van de onderzochte bedrijven biedt 76% SaaS diensten, 20% IaaS diensten en 4% PaaS diensten; 10% is in meer dan een […] Read more »
This is the placeholder for future updates of our Dutch Public Cloudscape. For the most current version check the figure below. Update February 24, 2015: We are currently at version 1.4. The Cloudscape now totals 248 cloud providers of which 10 % are active in more than one segment or category, resulting in a total […] Read more »
Last week we attended the C-Scape analyst track at Cisco Live in London to get an update on Cisco and its performance in the EMEAR region. Padmasree Warrior, Cisco SVP and CTO, delivered the keynote and laid down Cisco’s vision, strategy and execution for the next generation of IT. In a nutshell: Vision. The Internet […] Read more »
We recently wrote about how to expand your cloud business and introduced our XaaS Expansion model. This expansion model applies not only to Software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors but also to Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) vendors. But SaaS, PaaS and IaaS vendors need different attributes to be able to compete effectively in their respective segments (see […] Read more »