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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
Vishy Venugopalan



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:

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

More >>

Upcoming ICE reports

Managing the Virtual Revolution
Oct 2008
Cloud Computing 2
Nov 2008
Financial Markets Deployment
Nov 2008
SOA vs. SaaS
Dec 2008
Virtually Secure
Dec 2008

Related ICE Research

OpTier looks to form a supergroup

The business transaction management vendor has raised an additional $47.5m in a fourth round of funding and is clearly on a mission to grow through acquisitions.

TDM / Acquirer IQ, 29 Sep 2008

William Fellows

RightScale extends cloud control to FlexiScale, GoGrid and Rackspace

The company has extended cloud hosting options from EC2 to FlexiScale and GoGrid, and will add support for a new Rackspace Hosting service to be announced later this year. Will RightScale offer wholesale access?

MIS / Market Development, 26 Sep 2008

William Fellows

Surgient surges in revenue and debuts next version of its product

The virtual lab automation startup, which to date has sold to developers and testers, has changed its positioning to appeal to operations staff. Will the company maintain its growth trajectory?

MIS / Market Development, 26 Sep 2008

Vishwanath Venugopalan

vInteresting – 'cloudbursting' is VMware's target for vCloud

Citrix and VMware are two latecomers to cloud computing. At least the future of the term is now assured even if the nature of services are as yet unclear. And it's still early on.

MIS / Market Development, 25 Sep 2008

William Fellows

Cisco and VMware add the networking element to virtualization with VN-Link

Cisco introduces its first-ever software-only switch, the Nexus 1000V, and plans to add virtualization-aware capabilities to its hardware switches. But will its cooperation with VMware ultimately lead to a standard approach?

MIS / Impact Report, 24 Sep 2008

John Abbott

Serena bolsters hosted project management offering with Projity buy

Serena has made its second acquisition of a project management vendor, buying Projity, which offers a dual hosted and open source business model. The company should broaden its customer base with the deal.

TDM / Deal Analysis, 23 Sep 2008

Dennis Callaghan

ObjectGrid 'freed' as IBM WebSphere XD is unbundled

It was hard for IBM to articulate and market WebSphere XD as a single entity serving three different purposes. With the package now unbundled, Big Blue expects marketing activities to pick up significantly.

MIS / Market Development, 23 Sep 2008

William Fellows

Integrien adds VMware-specific features to next generation of flagship Alive

Users are complaining about application performance in the wake of virtualization deployments, but application performance owners don't have easy answers. Integrien has added new features to its Alive software to investigate VMware deployments.

MIS / Market Development, 22 Sep 2008

Rachel Chalmers

Virtual application discovery and monitoring now comes with a BlueStripe

Veterans of Wily Technology and Relicore are unusually well qualified to understand application owner pain. Wily's Chris Neal and Relicore's Vic Nyman have joined forces in BlueStripe Software, aimed at bridging virtual and application management.

MIS / Impact Report, 22 Sep 2008

Rachel Chalmers, Karin Kelley

Enomaly will flip its business model to pursue cloud ambitions

The cloud computing pioneer will raise money and transition from a consulting operation to a product and services shop.

MIS / Impact Report, 19 Sep 2008

William Fellows

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