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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:

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

More >>

Upcoming ICE reports

Innovations in HPC
Feb 2010
SaaS and the Cloud
Feb 2010
PaaS and the Cloud
Mar 2010

Related ICE Research

Oracle does about-face, announces plans to acquire AmberPoint

Less than two years after terminating BEA's OEM agreement with AmberPoint, Oracle has had a change of heart and reached agreement to acquire AmberPoint, describing its SOA management software as 'best in class.'

TDM / Deal Analysis, 8 Feb 2010

Dennis Callaghan

Exegy builds an ecosystem for its market data processing

The company has relaunched the real-time Market Data Peaks website in collaboration with Essex Radez and the Financial Information Forum.

MIS / Market Development, 5 Feb 2010

John Barr

Virtualizing the global desktop environment at Morgan Stanley

The bank's key enterprise infrastructure computing initiatives in 2010-2011 are desktop and server virtualization, new datacenter capacity, green IT, grid computing for risk analytics and disaster recovery.

MIS / User Deployment Report, 3 Feb 2010

William Fellows

newScale's service catalog release targets cloud computing and consumerization of IT

Service catalogs are an important part of the cloud on-boarding process. Now with an App Store-like front end, newScale v9 tracks costs and automates delivery and fulfillment across physical, virtual and cloud resources.

MIS / Market Development, 2 Feb 2010

William Fellows

CohesiveFT touts 'software container' for multi-cloud enablement

After a four-year wait, CohesiveFT's story comes together in the cloud. Can it seize the opportunity?

MIS / Impact Report, 1 Feb 2010

William Fellows

SlickAccess refines its message around remote access for SMBs

With its software almost a year old, the vendor has sharpened its message around simplicity, mobility and remote access. The founders' heritage in network access control and database security confers credibility upon the new positioning.

MIS / Market Development, 27 Jan 2010

Rachel Chalmers

DeviceVM's Splashtop turns 2.0 and broadens consumer netbook reach

The four-year-old 'instant-on' OS company has been scoring OEM deals at a steady clip, and that momentum doesn't seem to be slowing. In consumer markets, that is.

MIS / Impact Report, 26 Jan 2010

Karin Kelley, Rachel Chalmers

Zarafa targets Exchange users with Linux-based Outlook and smartphone support

The company is growing in Europe and elsewhere with its open source Exchange replacement software providing Outlook and smartphone support, but can it broaden out in the face of open source competition and Exchange dominance?

MIS / Impact Report, 25 Jan 2010

Jay Lyman

Zimbra's in the fold, but VMware has more shopping to do for SpringSource

After buying another open source company – the Zimbra assets from Yahoo – the vendor is bound to make some more acquisitions to strengthen its PaaS position.

TDM / Acquirer IQ, 25 Jan 2010

Dennis Callaghan

All-new Neocleus has new management team and focus on PC management

In a way, the company was too successful in arguing for the usefulness of a Type 1 client hypervisor. Citrix Systems and VMware are now building their own. But Neocleus sees plenty of life in its virtual runtime and development kit.

MIS / Market Development, 22 Jan 2010

Rachel Chalmers

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