HP Data Centers and the Cloud

HP has been busy building out its cloud data center footprint across the world. In the Benelux customers now have the opportunity to source HP’s managed private and virtual cloud services from twin data centers in an active-active configuration. Customers can choose either a private (single tenant) or virtual (multitenant) cloud or a hybrid solution […] Read more »

Cloud for Europe, Europe for Cloud

A couple of weeks ago we spoke at the SaaS Cloud Symposium of the Dutch ICT trade association. Theme for the day, inspired by the European Commission and its public sector cloud computing initiative was “Cloud for Europe, Europe for Cloud”. We kicked off the afternoon event with a presentation on the state of the […] Read more »

The Mobile Gap Between Business And Consumer

This presentation was delivered on the Service Manager Day 2013. Omarm de mobiele economie from Pim Bilderbeek Mobile is much more than the stereotype road warrior with tablet and smartphone. Mobile is also the couch potato with the apps and the second screen, the learning thermostat that can be controlled from anywhere, the smart watch […] Read more »

Mobilising People And Enterprise

The METISfiles presented at the Innovation Group Mobile Forum 2012 in Milan on February 22. Pim Bilderbeek, Principal Analyst, provided the keynote with a presentation on how Enterprises should start to put mobility, cloud and social capabilities at the core of their business model. These cannot afford to be left as adjunct capabilities. If you […] Read more »

Data Centers and the Cloud

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 »