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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

Low-latency messaging goes west – 29West, that is

The arms race around low-latency messaging is heating up. 29West is leading the pack for now, but can it hold on?

MIS / Impact Report, 19 Aug 2008

John Barr

A cloud for all seasons? Zimory Marketplace sets out from T-Systems

T-Systems owner Deutsche Telekom has spun off Zimory to harness cloud potential. Can it attract other users to the marketplace?

MIS / Impact Report, 18 Aug 2008

William Fellows

Celoxica steps up with NYSE Euronext deal

The company has reinvented itself over the last year, its core business being the development of acceleration appliances for the finance industry, and has now landed a major deal with NYSE Euronext.

MIS / Market Development, 18 Aug 2008

John Barr

CA extends Clarity PPM to SaaS model

The company now provides a software-as-a-service version of its Clarity project and portfolio management software, throwing its hat into an increasingly crowded ring.

MIS / Market Development, 15 Aug 2008

Dennis Callaghan

Turquoise dips a toe in the water of multilateral trading facilities

Turquoise adds a splash of color to the MTF landscape. It's backed by a posse of major investment banks, but does it have what it takes to succeed in Europe's rapidly evolving financial markets?

MIS / Market Development, 15 Aug 2008

John Barr

Strangeloop has a new spin on the Web services accelerator appliance

The startup promises improved application performance by accelerating the Web services that feed those applications. Haven't we heard this one before?

MIS / Impact Report, 14 Aug 2008

Dennis Callaghan

Virtualization is a shot in the arm for clean, green thin-client vendor IGEL

The venerable German device manufacturer is flaunting the results of a Fraunhofer Society study that found PCs have twice the negative environmental impact of thin clients. But it's desktop virtualization that's driving new interest in its platforms.

MIS / Impact Report, 13 Aug 2008

Rachel Chalmers

Are there more Nimsoft-Indicative deals out there?

The Nimsoft-Indicative merger could inspire a new wave of consolidation in IT management – not by the Big Four, but against the Big Four.

TDM / Sector IQ, 13 Aug 2008

Dennis Callaghan

As more companies worry about PCI DSS, mValent adds a compliance automation tool

Application configuration management vendor mValent has created a PCI Compliance Automation Module as an extension of its mValent Integrity software. The module is designed to help IT teams secure credit card processing without heroic labor.

MIS / Market Development, 12 Aug 2008

Rachel Chalmers

CA crosses 1,000-customer mark with Wily, takes transaction focus

The Wily product line continues to be a success story at CA two and a half years after CA bought the application performance management company.

MIS / Market Development, 11 Aug 2008

Dennis Callaghan

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