The Future of the Dutch Cloud & Hosting Industry

METISfiles recently presented on the Future of the Dutch Cloud & Hosting Industry at an event organized by the Dutch Hosting Provider Association (DHPA). The current state of the Dutch cloud & hosting industry can be summarised as follows: Cloud & hosting providers provide web hosting, infrastructure hosting, application hosting (or a combination of all […] Read more »

Segmentation and Differentiation In The Cloud & Hosting Market

The cloud & hosting provider landscape is extremely diverse. In this blog post we aim to provide some clarity into the different products and services that cloud and hosting providers deliver. Also, we take a quick look at how providers differentiate their offerings. From a product and services perspective we make a distinction between web, […] Read more »

Europe’s Local Cloud & Hosting Heroes

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 »

Consolidation in Dutch Cloud & Hosting Sector Continues

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 »

Top 10 Independent Dutch Cloud & Hosting Providers

Who are the largest Dutch cloud & hosting providers? We have created a top 10 for both independent providers and for IT providers that have cloud & hosting divisions. In our top 10 we only include providers that have their worldwide headquarters in The Netherlands. The ranking is based on size (in terms of the […] Read more »