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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:

The Searchable Organization
Aug 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

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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Related ICE Research

Cloupia bursts into hybrid cloud management market

The Santa Clara, California-based startup is aiming to automate and burst hybrid clouds across any underlying infrastructure. Does it have a secret weapon stemming from its founders' professional heritage?

MIS / Impact Report, 1 Sep 2010

Karin Kelley, Rachel Chalmers

Integrien releases VMware-specific product one day, gets bought by VMware the next

Just one day after announcing a version of its Alive performance analytics software for VMware environments, Integrien has been acquired by VMware.

TDM / Deal Analysis, 31 Aug 2010

Dennis Callaghan, Rachel Chalmers, Brenon Daly

VMware unveils vCloud, vShield, vFabric – vEverything

VMware's not shy in using its annual VMworld conference – now pretty much the biggest get-together in the virtualization world – as its bully pulpit. This week the software giant outlines what it has planned for desktop, server and cloud into 2020.

MIS / Market Development, 31 Aug 2010

Rachel Chalmers

CloudShare chalks up another reference account, offers Surgient 'trade-up'

With its hosted IT-as-a-service play appealing more and more to the ISV market, the company must find a way to transcend its core sales evaluation use case without compromising the values that have helped it build its business so far.

MIS / Market Development, 30 Aug 2010

Rachel Chalmers

Citrix Systems buys VMLogix for lab, stage and cloud management

Ever since Citrix bundled VMLogix's software with its Essentials packs, we've been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Quest Software's recent purchase of Surgient raised the stakes, but the real target of this deal is VMware.

TDM / Deal Analysis, 30 Aug 2010

Rachel Chalmers

State of the art in eco-efficient datacenters (Part 2)

In this second of two spotlight reports on eco-efficient datacenters, we highlight some of the recent projects that have achieved, or will achieve, substantial energy savings.

MIS / Spotlight, 27 Aug 2010

Andy Lawrence

HPC cluster users get a big X-ISS

The company has delivered a product and a service to help manage complex HPC cluster environments.

MIS / Impact Report, 27 Aug 2010

John Barr

Hewlett-Packard buys Stratavia for database and application automation

If you thought HP's appetite for automation was exhausted by its Opsware acquisition, think again. Little-known but admired Stratavia brings deep database and application domain expertise, plus a 50-strong customer roster that includes PepsiCo and Visa.

TDM / Deal Analysis, 26 Aug 2010

Rachel Chalmers

Is it time for a new Sumerian dynasty?

The ancient Sumerian civilization combined the use of tools with advanced thinking. The technology specialist applies the same approach to performance and capacity planning.

MIS / Impact Report, 25 Aug 2010

John Barr

State of the art in eco-efficient datacenters (Part 1)

Datacenters are at the heart of eco-efficient IT. In this two-part report, we identify some of the trends in eco-efficient datacenters and describe some of the innovative projects that are achieving significant energy savings.

MIS / Spotlight, 25 Aug 2010

Andy Lawrence

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