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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:

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

Test Lab Automation
Sep 2008
SOA Adoption
Sep 2008
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

AppSense brings common-sense approach to user environment management

Virtual desktops are taking the world by storm. Among the top beneficiaries are vendors in the Citrix ecosystem, companies whose tools were developed to work with server-based computing. One of them is user environment management vendor AppSense.

MIS / Impact Report, 4 Sep 2008

Rachel Chalmers

Aggressive OpenSpan hires new CEO, closes C round, keeps growing

A new boss and a $13m funding round have OpenSpan bullish on beating its already-impressive growth trajectory.

MIS / Market Development, 3 Sep 2008

Dennis Callaghan

Oracle buys former BEA monitoring partner ClearApp

Now that Oracle is building its middleware product suite around BEA's WebLogic application server, it has made a small but not insignificant deal to buy ClearApp, which got its start in monitoring software for WebLogic.

TDM / Deal Analysis, 2 Sep 2008

Dennis Callaghan

Built to order: what's next for the platform-as-a-service market?

This much-hyped segment could do for custom-built software what SaaS did for shrink-wrapped, on-premise software.

TDM / Sector IQ, 2 Sep 2008

Vishwanath Venugopalan

Backup, reporting, integration and distribution: Veeam has big dreams

Since we last caught up with Veeam, the busy virtualization management vendor has added a new integer release of its backup tool, a beta of its Enterprise Reporter, an acquisition of an enterprise connector firm and two new distributors.

MIS / Market Development, 29 Aug 2008

Rachel Chalmers

SteelEye Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer aims to ease disaster recovery

With business continuity and disaster recovery emerging as key drivers for virtualization, SteelEye has adapted its Protection Suite to work with Citrix XenServer. Recent changes to VMware ESXi have made it harder for partners to add value there.

MIS / Market Development, 28 Aug 2008

Rachel Chalmers

Exegy targets the low-latency feed handling market

The Exegy Ticker Plant appliance provides access to all major US and European level-one and level-two feeds as well as the Options Price Reporting Authority.

MIS / Market Development, 28 Aug 2008

John Barr

Solace Systems expands target markets, signs OEM deal with Tibco

The company has evolved its message-routing hardware beyond the carrier market into financial services and Web content companies.

MIS / Market Development, 27 Aug 2008

Dennis Callaghan

Montego Networks comes out of stealth and teams with Lancope on analysis

Founded by veterans of Reflex Security, Montego flew under the radar until earlier this year. Now it's out in the open, and the first item of business is an integration of its Virtual HyperSwitch with Lancope's StealthWatch network behavior analysis.

MIS / Impact Report, 26 Aug 2008

Rachel Chalmers

Pervasive Software shifts focus from multicore to managing data flow

The company's DataRush Java framework cuts down the time taken to manage complex data by exploiting multicore technology.

MIS / Market Development, 25 Aug 2008

John Barr

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