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Business leaders are looking at technology as a key strategic asset for dealing with the accelerated pace of change. Managers of customer facing business units are eager to unleash the full potential of Big Data. The cloud is becoming the connection between business and technology. How can IT services players harness the power of technology, […] Read more »
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 »
If you have been following our European cloudscape research you will know we provide snapshots of the local SaaS, PaaS and IaaS provider landscape in selected European countries. So far we have covered more than 1000 local XaaS offerings in Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and the UK. 25% of those 1000 entries are IaaS providers. […] Read more »
The latest target in the ongoing merger frenzy is ReasonNet, acquired by Sentia. Sentia already assimilated PaaSplaza and Jitscale. The ‘Sentia Groep’ now claims 160 employees and € 30 million of annual revenues. We expect more activity in the cloud & hosting sector this year as we believe acquiring scale through an active merger & […] Read more »
In 2014, AWS generated $4.6B, growing 49%. In 2013, AWS generated $3.1B, growing 69%. AWS as a business is now 7% of Amazon’s overall net sales. If AWS’s run rate continues as it is now, we estimate it will generate $7.2B net sales in 2015, a growth of 57%. AWS is a profitable business. In […] Read more »