Local cloud and hosting providers that have been busy building out their local infrastructure either will remain distinctly local and provide their own private, hybrid and public cloud offerings, or forge alliances with global cloud providers to complement their own offering.

1. The Changing Role of Cloud &
Hosting Providers
Pim Bilderbeek, The METISfiles
pim@themetisfiles.com
DHPA netwerkbijeenkomst 26 Mei 2016;

2. Relevant METISfiles Cloud & Hosting Research
http://www.themetisfiles.com/category/research/
• Trends en Ontwikkelingen in de Nederlandse Hosting Markt
(DHPA/ISPConnect, 2014)
• Cloudscape (IBM, Interxion, 2014-2016) e.g. Leading IaaS Partners
of European SaaS ISVs, Top 1500 European Public Cloud Computing
Providers
• Digital Agencies in Nederland (True, Emerce, 2014 en 2015)
• White Papers on Data Center Standards (Interxion, Datacenter
Dynamics, 2015 en 2016)
• Top 10 Independent Dutch Cloud & Hosting Providers (METISfiles,
2015)
• Europe’s Local Cloud & Hosting Heroes (METISfiles, 2015)
• Charting the Dutch Digital Economy (METISfiles, 2014-2016)
• Etc.

3. The Big SwitchOn-
premise
Co-
location Hosting IaaS PaaS SaaS BPaaS
Data center infrastructure
Physical Computing
Virtual Computing
Software Dvlpt
Applications
Business
Process
control elasticity
dedicated
dedicated
dedicated
shared
shared
shared
dedicated
shared
dedicated
shared
dedicated
shared
ServicesSoftwareHardware
ServicesPlatforminfrastructure
Oud Nieuw

5. Model:
Public, Private,
Hybrid
Application:
Social, Analytics,
Mobile, IoT
Service:
SaaS, IaaS,
PaaS, BPaaS
Datacenter:
On-premise,
co-location,
cloud
Provider:
Amazon,
Microsoft,
Softlayer
A Hybrid, Multi-Cloud World
integration orchestration
management connectivity
control

6. Changing Service Provider Roles
• Delivering automated network services from carrier cloudsCarriers
• Switching hubs for cloud, content and connectivityData Centres
• Orchestrating automated infrastructure services from
hybrid multi-cloudsInfrastructure hosters
• Delivering application management services from hybrid
multi-cloudsApplication hosters
• SaaS provider delivering software-as-a-service from a multi-
tenant cloudSoftware providers
• BPaaS provider delivering automated business services
from a multi-tenant cloudOutsourcers

7. Choose Your Battleground
Global cloud
providers, …
New managed
service providers,
…
Co-location
providers, …
Traditional
managed service
providers, …
Managed Hybrid
Multi-Cloud
Providers
Unmanaged
Private
cloud
Public
cloud
Managed

8. The changing role of cloud &
hosting providers
Pim Bilderbeek, The METISfiles
pim@themetisfiles.com
DHPA netwerkbijeenkomst 26 Mei 2016;