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William Fellows

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Sean Hackett

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Antonio Piraino

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Rachel Chalmers

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About CloudScape

451 CloudScape is an interdisciplinary research and advisory program from the 451 Group and Tier1 Research, providing detailed insight, advice and analysis targeting cloud practitioners.

CloudScape draws on the unique expertise of The 451, with its ten year history of insight into grid, utility, and cloud computing, and Tier1 Research, the leading analyst company covering hosting, internet infrastructure and IT services.

Insight is delivered via daily commentary, long format reports, analyst advisory services, events and webinars.


Recent CloudScape Reports:

Seeding the Clouds
Aug 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Cloud Heavyweights Shape the IaaS Landscape
Aug 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

IT is Cloud – To Infrastructure and Beyond
Jun 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

PaaS and the Cloud
Mar 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

SaaS and the Cloud
Mar 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Cloud Outlook 2010
Feb 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Managing the Cloud: Automation
Dec 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Managing the Cloud: Performance
Nov 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Cloud Infrastructure Services 2: Here Come The Heavyweights
Oct 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Identity in the Cloud: Winds of Change Forecast
Oct 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Journeys in the Cloud
Oct 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Cloud Storage: Enabling the Distributed Datacenter
Sep 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Cloud Codex
Jul 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Cloud Infrastructure Services 1: Managed Hosters
Jul 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

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Recent CloudScape Digests:

Cloud Digest November 2009
Nov 2009

Cloud Digest October 2009
Oct 2009

Cloud Digest September 2009
Sep 2009

Cloud Digest August 2009
Aug 2009

Cloud Digest July 2009
Jul 2009

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Upcoming CloudScape Reports:

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Related CloudScape Research

Desktop virtualization in the world of the smartphone

The term 'desktop virtualization' can mean different things to different people, and the nature of the access device is rapidly changing.

MIS / Spotlight, 3 Sep 2010

Dan Kusnetzky

Unisys takes cloudy service model to ClearPath mainframes: now PaaS (SaaS to come)

The company has added cloudy functions to its ClearPath mainframe line, offering a PaaS cloud that is similar to a rentable mainframe.

MIS / Market Development, 2 Sep 2010

William Fellows, Doug Toombs

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

VMware acquires TriCipher for consolidated end-user access management hub

It's no longer business as usual in the identity management world. There's work ahead, but TriCipher's hub-and-spoke architecture will provide the foundation for an end-user access layer in VMware's coalescing platform.

TDM / Deal Analysis, 1 Sep 2010

Steve Coplan

Grids of clouds, or clouds of buzzwords?

Grids were undermined by a rampant abuse of the word 'grid.' As clouds start to explore some grid-like functionality, will history repeat itself?

MIS / Spotlight, 1 Sep 2010

John Barr

ReachForce expands its focus to become a more complete data-as-a-service player

A good deal has changed at the SaaS B2B lead-generation startup since we profiled it last. ReachForce now describes itself as a DaaS wannabe, and is filling in a contact management lifecycle strategy with new apps like relationship management.

MIS / Impact Report, 31 Aug 2010

China Martens

Can CA make it rain with $200m purchase of authentication-in-the-cloud vendor Arcot?

CA Technologies makes another cloud management move – this time it secures access to the cloud with the acquisition of authentication-as-a-service provider Arcot. It's expensive, but CA is confident that it can make the numbers work.

TDM / Deal Analysis, 31 Aug 2010

Steve Coplan

Pervasive Software's integration business lifted by the cloud

The data management veteran is reportedly seeing a good proportion of growth in its integration business coming from the cloud. We examine planned enhancements to its lineup to further support cloud-based integration and other moves in the works.

MIS / Market Development, 31 Aug 2010

Krishna Roy

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

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