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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:

Innovations in HPC
Mar 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

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

SaaS and the Cloud
Mar 2010
PaaS and the Cloud
Mar 2010
Converged Fabric: Virtualization encompasses server, storage and network devices
Apr 2010
Graphics Remoting Protocols: Desktop virtualization has sparked a surge of innovation around expediting the last hop
Apr 2010
Securing Virtual Desktops: How (and why) to assess the risks of VDI
May 2010
The Searchable Organization: the promises and challenges of harnessing big data
Jun 2010
The Rise of the DevOps: why new job roles are purchasing software, and how to reach them
Aug 2010

Related ICE Research

New Relic stakes out cloud management position around Ruby on Rails, Java next

The company is making some impressive early headway in managing hosted Ruby on Rails application development environments. Now it just has to win larger deals in the Java application management space.

MIS / Impact Report, 9 Mar 2010

Dennis Callaghan

Fujitsu launches its Zero Client desktop with Pano Logic built into the monitor

Startup Pano Logic, which just closed a $20m funding round, opened up its hardware specification in February and is now looking for other OEMs to license its 'zero client' reference architecture.

MIS / Market Development, 9 Mar 2010

John Abbott

Progress revamps product strategy, brand around business responsiveness

In the wake of a fiscal 2009 that saw revenue and net income fall, the vendor is trying to unify its various software products around a single corporate brand and reposition them to be more responsive to changing business conditions.

MIS / Market Development, 8 Mar 2010

Dennis Callaghan

Reflex Systems shows off vTrust-VMsafe integration, VQooL query language

The 451 Group is old enough to remember when Reflex Systems was Reflex Security, a pioneer in virtual IDS and IDP. Now it aims to integrate virtualization management and security, which is no mean feat.

MIS / Market Development, 8 Mar 2010

Rachel Chalmers

Will CA's 3tera buyout spark fresh interest in Elastra?

Elastra Enterprise Server lets IT shops automate the process of modeling, deploying and enforcing policy across their application infrastructure. Sound familiar? This outgrowth of the grid revolution resembles 3tera, now part of CA.

MIS / Market Development, 5 Mar 2010

Rachel Chalmers

Cray readies next-generation 'Baker' supercomputers, inks cloud deal with Microsoft

The archetypal supercomputing vendor is relying more on commodity components and is looking to broaden its market through pacts with Microsoft, Intel and Dell.

MIS / Impact Report, 5 Mar 2010

John Abbott

Skytap adds network automation capabilities for the cloud

The company aims to help enterprises handle their unpredictable, 'bursty' and dynamic workloads. Increasingly, that means harnessing the cloud. Skytap now addresses the as-yet unsolved problem: how to create and manage multitier network topologies.

MIS / Market Development, 4 Mar 2010

Rachel Chalmers

Unidesk identifies the real desktop virtualization opportunity: management

The stealth company has closed a $12m series B round led by North Bridge Venture Partners, bringing total funding to $20m. It has also lured Dell veteran Ron Oglesby on board as its chief solution architect. So what does Unidesk do, exactly?

MIS / Impact Report, 3 Mar 2010

Rachel Chalmers

Modius evolves from datacenter data collection to operational intelligence

The vendor pioneered data collection from multiple non-IT devices in the datacenter, but it sees its biggest opportunity in operational intelligence – using the data to get a clear view of how both IT staff and the infrastructure are performing.

MIS / Market Development, 2 Mar 2010

Andy Lawrence

Platform Computing sees private clouds breaking through virtualization barriers

We track any number of ambitious new startups around cloud computing, but one stalwart of earlier generations of shared-resource computing doesn't care whether you are building clusters, grids or clouds. Platform Computing believes it can help.

MIS / Impact Report, 1 Mar 2010

Rachel Chalmers

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