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ICE Research Team  

Research director:
Rachel Chalmers

Principal analyst:
William Fellows

Research Director, Systems:
John Abbott

Research Director, Financial Markets & Head of EU Research:
John Barr

Analysts:
Dennis Callaghan
China Martens



About ICE

Infrastructure Computing for the Enterprise (ICE) draws together our analytical focus on topics like virtualization, datacenter automation, grid and high-performance computing, application lifecycle management, performance management, service-level management and service-oriented architecture.

ICE takes a 360-degree view of disruptive technologies; we analyze:

  • The activities of vendors bringing products to market, especially startups
  • The needs and experiences of enterprise end users
  • Factors and considerations influencing funding and M&A.

Core Components

  • 451 ICE Reports: a judicious mix of very granular long-form reports and more succinct position papers
  • 451 ICE Analyst Access: interaction with 451 infrastructure analysts, led by Rachel Chalmers
  • 451 Cloud Cover: a blog offering early-warning radar of disruptive change in enterprise infrastructure computing.
  • 451 ICE Summit: regular events exploring top issues in infrastructure.


Recent ICE reports:

Virtualized Desktops Grow Up: Mapping the Intersection of Management and Security
Jul 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Fast, Cheap and In Control: The Next Generation of Graphics Remoting Protocols
Jun 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

PaaS and the Cloud
Mar 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

SaaS and the Cloud
Mar 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Innovations in HPC
Mar 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Managing the Cloud: Automation
Dec 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Managing the Cloud: Performance
Nov 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Colocation and the Art of Rapid-Execution Trading
Oct 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Application Virtualization: The Next Generation
Oct 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

User Virtualization
Jul 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Break Point – Virtualization and Availability
May 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Desktop Virtualization: Server, Client and Cloud
May 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Latency Capture, Storage and Analysis in Financial Markets
Apr 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

From SOA to SaaS
Mar 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

The Sky's the Limit
Mar 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Virtually Secure
Dec 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Credit Crunch
Dec 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Virtually Automatic
Nov 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Financial Messaging
Oct 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

The Missed Promise of SOA
Oct 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Virtual Lab Automation
Sep 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Virtualization: Reinventing desktop computing
Jul 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Partly Cloudy - Blue-Sky Thinking About Cloud Computing
Jun 2008 - Exec. Summary

Low Latency – Time is Money
May 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Power to the People
Feb 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Virtualization: Managing the virtual revolution
Dec 2007 - Buy - Exec. Summary

ECS: Financial Services Industry - This gig is bigger than grids - from HPC to service
Nov 2007 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Fifteen: Grid computing – Adoption in the healthcare market
Jun 2007 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Virtualization II: Desktops and applications are next
Jun 2007 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Fourteen: Grid Computing – The State of the Market
Jan 2007 - Buy - Exec. Summary

‘V’ for Virtualization: Transforming the datacenter, driving M&A
Dec 2006 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Thirteen: Grid Computing – Adoption in the High Tech Sector
Nov 2006 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Twelve: Grid Computing – Adoption in the Energy Sector
Sep 2006 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Eleven: Grid Computing – Enabling Applications for Grid Deployment
Jun 2006 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Ten: Grid Computing – Adoption in the Financial Sector
Apr 2006 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Nine: Grid Computing – Adoption in the Manufacturing Sector
Jan 2006 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Eight: Grid Computing – Where Are We with Utility Computing?
Dec 2005 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Seven: Grid Computing – Adoption for Digital Media Creation and Distribution
Oct 2005 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Six: Grid Computing – Managing Data on Grids
Aug 2005 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Five: Grid Computing – Adoption in the Pharmaceutical Sector
Jun 2005 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Four: Grid Computing – The Impact of Software Licensing
Mar 2005 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Three: Grid Computing – The Financial Services Opportunity
Dec 2004 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Two: Grid Computing – The Telco Opportunity
Oct 2004 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report One: Grid Computing – Where is the Value?
Aug 2004 - Buy - Exec. Summary

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Upcoming ICE reports

The Rise of the DevOps: why new job roles are purchasing software, and how to reach them
Aug 2010

Related ICE Research

Parallax Capital buys out hosted PPM pioneer Daptiv

On-demand project management pioneer Daptiv – formerly known as eProject – has been acquired by PE firm Parallax Capital Partners, which hopes to guide the target through a transition that it never successfully made on its own.

TDM / Deal Analysis, 28 Jul 2010

Dennis Callaghan, Brenon Daly

University of North Texas at Dallas deploys Unidesk and vSphere

Unidesk and VMware's vSphere help the university deliver a flexible desktop computing solution to students and faculty.

MIS / User Deployment Report, 27 Jul 2010

Dan Kusnetzky

Dell is poised for growth in commodity-based high-performance computing

HPC users want high performance at a commodity price point. They want HPC value-add without traditional HPC costs. Can Dell deliver?

MIS / Impact Report, 26 Jul 2010

John Barr

Is this the calm before the acquisition storm at BMC?

It's been more than eight months since the company's last deal. But with rival CA Technologies busily building out its cloud management offerings through M&A since then, a flurry of new acquisitions is likely in the works at BMC.

TDM / Acquirer IQ, 26 Jul 2010

Dennis Callaghan

VDIworks reaches out to China and accelerates virtual desktops on the WAN

Facing a formidable pack of competitors, ClearCube spinoff VDIworks is doing anything but back down. With two new OEM partnerships in place, the desktop virtualization vendor aims to bolster its flanks for the fight.

MIS / Market Development, 23 Jul 2010

Karin Kelley, Rachel Chalmers

BonitaSoft thinks open source can make BPM more attractive

The company is growing both its community and its name in business process management – will open source allow it to 'democratize' BPM for a wider audience and opportunity?

MIS / Impact Report, 21 Jul 2010

Jay Lyman, Dennis Callaghan

Born-again SGI – one year old and thriving

Was Rackspace's acquisition of SGI a simple refinancing of an old idea, or was it a spiritual rebirth for SGI?

TDM / Post-Merger IQ, 21 Jul 2010

John Barr

Egenera and Fujitsu renew OEM relationship for converged infrastructure systems

Despite heavy competition from major systems and networking vendors, Egenera appears to be making gains through OEM and reseller channels. Could it become an independent alternative source for unified computing systems?

MIS / Market Development, 16 Jul 2010

John Abbott

All for cloud: VMware upgrades vSphere, adds Ionix products to vCenter line

VMware sharpens up vSphere's features and announces new vCenter products from the EMC Ionix handover, as well as fresh pricing across both vSphere and vCenter to meet customer demands and make the products more appealing to SMBs.

MIS / Impact Report, 15 Jul 2010

Rachel Chalmers

Opus Interactive finds ScienceLogic EM7 a compelling Big Four alternative

The IT service provider replaced a mιlange of IT management systems with ScienceLogic's all-in-one EM7 appliance and has seen both top-line and bottom-line benefits.

MIS / User Deployment Report, 14 Jul 2010

Dennis Callaghan

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