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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:

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

More >>

Upcoming ICE reports

SOA vs. SaaS
Dec 2008
Virtually Secure
Dec 2008

Related ICE Research

Novell-Managed Objects deal could signal new consolidation wave for BSM

Digital Fuel, Oblicore, ASG Software Solutions and Tideway are the top targets as IT management vendors look to buttress their business service management capabilities in the wake of Novell's acquisition of Managed Objects.

TDM / Sector IQ, 3 Dec 2008

Dennis Callaghan

InfiniBand tests and re-brands as it seeks to grow beyond HPC market

The high-speed, low-latency technology finds itself locked into the HPC space and is struggling to gain traction in the larger datacenter and mainstream compute market. It's also fighting off Ethernet, which is seeking to move into IB markets.

MIS / Market Development, 2 Dec 2008

Greg Quick

2008 review – Infrastructure management software

In 2008, dwindling interest in SOA, increasing interest in cloud-based IT management and application were among the standout issues in infrastructure management. We examine these and other topics in our annual review of the market.

MIS / Reviews / Previews, 1 Dec 2008

Dennis Callaghan, Vishwanath Venugopalan

Verari accelerates into clustered storage, but doesn't have its head in the clouds

The hardware specialist best known for its blade servers is ramping up its storage play. The new DataValet offering combines its dense hardware with Caringo's object-based software. Verari notes the target market stretches well beyond the cloud.

MIS / Market Development, 1 Dec 2008

Simon Robinson

I scream, you scream, we all scream for Veeam

We checked in with this feisty virtualization management vendor as recently as August, but already there are new releases of Veeam Monitor, Reporter Enterprise Edition and Configurator to be reckoned with – plus an EMEA headquarters in London.

MIS / Market Development, 26 Nov 2008

Rachel Chalmers

BDNA shining a light into the darkest corners of IT

The company is trying to help large organizations get a better handle on their IT assets; it certainly has plenty of funding to build its business.

MIS / Impact Report, 25 Nov 2008

Dennis Callaghan

Cycle Computing brings Condor into the cloud

Cycle positions CycleCloud as a way to dial resources up and down and share them between internal resources. Users don't need to know it's Condor underneath; they just run batch jobs.

MIS / Market Development, 24 Nov 2008

William Fellows

Violin shifts focus to embrace flash storage

The company's flexible architecture always allowed a variety of memory technologies, but until now it did not have a dedicated flash-based offering. As interest in that segment has grown, the company has started to shift focus.

MIS / Market Development, 24 Nov 2008

Greg Quick

Chi-x builds and diversifies

Despite difficult economic times, the European exchange has made significant progress during its first year of operation.

MIS / Market Development, 21 Nov 2008

John Barr

GDCM finds datacenter efficiency success

The startup is one of a flurry of companies offering software to manage, and ultimately automate, parts of datacenter management, as demand increases for ways to speed up decision making and make better use of resources.

MIS / Impact Report, 21 Nov 2008

Andy Lawrence

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