This report provides market size and forecasting data and analysis for the datacenter infrastructure management (DCIM) software sector, a segment for which we have seen an immense level of interest in the marketplace. This report provides a bottom-up market-sizing analysis that incorporates revenue estimates and forecasts for each of the 39 competing vendors that we have identified. The report also examines two market subsectors and their respective demand drivers, as well as providing estimated revenue ranges for each vendor’s DCIM sales in 2010. Finally, the report looks at growth accelerators, growth inhibitors and other market trends.

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This report examines major laws, regulations and standards covering datacenter environmental performance. It also covers metrics for evaluating sustainability, the use of renewable energy and other issues. Taken together, these environmental issues influence the datacenter and supplier community in a variety of ways.

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This report examines major laws, regulations and standards covering datacenter environmental performance. It also covers metrics for evaluating sustainability, the use of renewable energy and other issues. Taken together, these environmental issues influence the datacenter and supplier community in a variety of ways.

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Vendors in the backup and high-availability sector provide the much-needed fault-tolerance, backup, disaster-recovery, high-availability and business-continuity capabilities for virtualized IT environments. Backup and HA tools have become more important in a cloud-focused IT environment where the infrastructure is either virtualized or hosted in a private/public cloud, creating the need for a failsafe data-protection framework to be in place. The backup and HA tools on the market today largely represent a transition in existing technology, where both traditional data-protection vendors and the newer virtual-backup specialists are actively enhancing their products to address the challenges of the highly dynamic cloud environment. Included in this report on the backup & HA sector are the market revenue aggregates, growth forecasts, vendor shares, and segmentation by geography, customer and verticals.

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This report focuses on user virtualization, a segment of the desktop virtualization ecosystem that has recently seen a great deal of activity and interest. User virtualization vendors offer a set of tools that had initially evolved to address the limitations of Microsoft’s roaming user profiles, especially in virtualized desktop environments. However, the sector now goes beyond addressing those limitations and has become the focal point of the ‘user-centric’ world of IT and desktop virtualization. User experience has taken precedence over other aspects of a virtualized desktop environment, making the user virtualization sector perhaps the most important in the entire desktop stack.

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This report provides an in-depth appraisal of the drivers and prospects of this evolving market. It offers an overview of the current state of enterprise cloud and cloud storage adoption (including market sizing); an assessment of the challenges and use cases that cloud storage on-ramps are evolving to address; an overview of key startups, technologies and differentiators; and an assessment of the rapidly developing competitive landscape and potential M&A activity. The report concludes with several in-depth case studies of enterprises that have implemented cloud storage on-ramps.

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This report provides an in-depth appraisal of the drivers and prospects of this evolving market. It offers an overview of the current state of enterprise cloud and cloud storage adoption (including market sizing); an assessment of the challenges and use cases that cloud storage on-ramps are evolving to address; an overview of key startups, technologies and differentiators; and an assessment of the rapidly developing competitive landscape and potential M&A activity. The report concludes with several in-depth case studies of enterprises that have implemented cloud storage on-ramps.

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This is the fourth in a series of market overview reports on the rapidly evolving virtualization and cloud-enabling technologies space. This is a timely report in light of the attention, adoption and investment we are seeing in this market. There is rapid growth in private and public cloud environments alike, and vendors in the cloud-enabling technologies space are addressing both opportunities. This report provides updated estimates, historical revenues and growth forecasts for the cloud-enabling technologies market, and includes a breakdown of revenue by the six market subsectors, as well as by geographic region, customer size and vertical market.

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This report examines a cross-section of sustainable datacenter projects, which are broadly representative of the range of eco-efficient technologies and strategies being employed by datacenter owners and operators today. Some of these are becoming accepted practice; others may be too niche to be applicable to the datacenter ‘mainstream.’ However, taken as a whole, the projects analyzed in this report illustrate how the datacenter industry is repositioning itself to consider the issues of energy use and sustainability on par with uptime and availability.

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This report examines a cross-section of sustainable datacenter projects, which are broadly representative of the range of eco-efficient technologies and strategies being employed by datacenter owners and operators today. Some of these are becoming accepted practice; others may be too niche to be applicable to the datacenter ‘mainstream.’ However, taken as a whole, the projects analyzed in this report illustrate how the datacenter industry is repositioning itself to consider the issues of energy use and sustainability on par with uptime and availability.

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This report examines vendor approaches as they converge on this opportunity from all points. We use test and development workloads - a key use case in the cloud - as a lens to focus our analysis. The report offers extensive profiles of the vendors operating in this space – including the Big Four systems management vendors and other major players – as well as revenue projections for the market.

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This report provides market-share data on the top public and private players, as well as figures for the overall CDN market, with a look back at the revenues for Q2 2011 and an outlook for industry revenue through 2013. Additionally, we look at companies that are going to play a role in the CDN market landscape as vendors continue to adapt to the cloud computing trend.

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This report is intended for executives, developers, vendors and investors interested in learning about the latest directions and extensions of Linux, and how this changing market landscape is likely to affect their organizations. It focuses on market dynamics, including competitive analysis of various Linux distributions, analysis of adoption drivers and hurdles, and customer use cases highlighting how Linux is put to work in today’s cloud environments.

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The Desktop Virtualization Data File contains the most recently updated data set for the Market Monitor Desktop Virtualization product, which covers the rapidly evolving desktop virtualization technology marketplace which includes server-, client-, cloud- and OS-hosted desktop virtualization, in addition to desktop attached user virtualization, application virtualization and virtualized desktop management.. The data provides current market size and five-year growth rates for the desktop virtualization eco-system, leaderboard rankings for the top vendors, a list of all vendors by category and the revenue ‘cluster’ in which they fall under currently.

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This is the third overview report in the Market Monitor: Cloud Computing service. It examines the revenue generated by the cloud service providers and technology vendors via cloud platforms – PaaS and IaaS – as well as software delivered As a Service that is used to manage IT environments via the cloud, or IT management as a service (ITMaaS). In addition, we offer top-line estimates for the remainder of the SaaS market in order to provide forecasts of the cloud market that accommodate different cloud market definitions.

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This report examines the opportunities and challenges in building and operating exascale systems, covering issues such as power consumption, scalability and resiliency - as well as the processor architectures, memory technology, data management systems and programming tools required. Various global exascale initiatives are profiled, and the implications for users, vendors and investors are discussed.

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The Cloud-Enabling Technologies Data File contains the most recently updated data set for the Market Monitor cloud-enabling technologies product, which covers the rapidly evolving server virtualization and cloud computing technology marketplace. The data provides current market size and five-year growth rates for the server virtualization and on-premises cloud-enabling technology segments, leaderboard rankings for the top vendors, a list of all vendors by category and the revenue ‘cluster’ in which they fall under currently as well as a breakdown of top-line revenue by geographic region, customer size and vertical market.

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This report assists in the understanding of low-power servers by providing an introduction to how they fit into the current market landscape, examining how they are likely to evolve over the next 18-24 months, and presenting some typical use cases for currently available products and those about to come to the market. It also takes a look at vendor developments in CPUs, server design and related software activities.

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This report assists in the understanding of low-power servers by providing an introduction to how they fit into the current market landscape, examining how they are likely to evolve over the next 18-24 months, and presenting some typical use cases for currently available products and those about to come to the market. It also takes a look at vendor developments in CPUs, server design and related software activities.

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The datacenter industry is at the beginning of a period of fundamental, disruptive change. A combination of technological, economic and market factors have been coming together, with the result that datacenters are increasingly being engineered and constructed in a fundamentally different way than in the past. We believe that the emergence of prefabricated, modular datacenters will have a major impact on the datacenter industry – its ecosystem, its economics and its technology. This report helps define the taxonomy and provides an initial scoping of the market size. It also discusses future trends and expectations and gives snapshots for most of the high-profile companies currently innovating toward datacenter modularity.

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The Eastern-European Multi-Tenant Datacenter Market Assessment 2011 – Part 2 Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine is the second in a series of Tier1 Research reports covering key trends and metrics associated with the multi- enant datacenter (MTDC) market in Central and Eastern Europe. This second report includes current supply, demand and utilization metrics. It discusses the MTDC market leaders and market share, discusses Central and Eastern European countries’ colocation price indexes, compares energy costs of those countries with their Western peers, and provides profiles for the most important MTDC service providers, focusing on metropolitan areas in Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Bratislava and Kiev.

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This report focuses on the server-hosted desktop virtualization segment of the broader desktop virtualization ecosystem. In the server-hosted desktop virtualization model, workspaces – including an OS, applications and user preferences – live in the machine room or datacenter, and are served to end users over the LAN or WAN. Examples include Citrix XenDesktop and VMware View. Server-hosted desktop virtualization accounts for approximately 50% of market share in the overall desktop virtualization ecosystem, and thus is of utmost importance in the analysis of the take-up and growth of the desktop virtualization space.

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The Cloud as a Service Data File contains the most recently updated data set for the Market Monitor cloud computing program, which covers the rapidly evolving cloud as a service marketplace. The data provides current market size and five-year growth rates for the infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software infrastructure as a service (SIaaS) segments, leaderboard rankings for the top vendors, and a list of all vendors by category and the revenue ‘cluster’ in which they fall.

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Our annual look at the market for electronic discovery is an opportunity to step back from the day-to-day focus on overall trends in the market. Here, we examine not only how this growing industry is adjusting to new technologies, but also to new legal decisions and regulations.

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This report focuses on server virtualization as the first layer within the cloud-enabling technologies management stack. This layer includes the hypervisor, containers and the administration tools that form the basis of any virtualized infrastructure. Administration vendors provide the foundation for centralized management of all hypervisors, containers and their VM guests. Included in this report are the market revenue aggregates; growth forecasts; vendor shares; and segmentation by geography, customer and verticals of the server virtualization sector.

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The application security market is growing in several directions, and although it still receives much less spending than other types of IT security, it is hitting the mainstream in a big way, due in part to the awareness raised by widespread attacks from Anonymous, LulzSec, AntiSec and other chaotic actors. In this report, we look at application security from the perspective of an enterprise that is developing its own software or acquiring it from a third party: which products would work best at different stages?

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This report focuses on automation as one of the essential tools within the cloud-enabling technologies management stack and includes vendors that have offerings for both virtual and cloud environments. Included in this report are the market revenue aggregates, growth forecasts, and vendor shares and segmentation by geography, customer and vertical of the automation sector.

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The mobile tablet is set to drive a new wave of mobile computing throughout the enterprise. But are we entering a post-PC era? This report details how the tablet will impact the enterprise, from a user, software, and hardware standpoint. We detail current and future adoption of tablets by mobile OS, by company size, and by company vertical.

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The Eastern-European Multi-Tenant Datacenter Market Assessment 2011 – Part 1 Russia is the first in a series of Tier1 Research reports covering key trends and metrics associated with the multi-tenant datacenter (MTDC) market in Eastern Europe. The initial report includes current supply, demand and utilization metrics and provides profiles for the most important MTDC service providers, with an initial focus on the Moscow and St. Petersburg metropolitan areas.

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This report examines the compute-as-a-service (CaaS) market from a revenue perspective. CaaS is the provisioning of computing resources on demand, with the ability to ‘rent’ infrastructure services rather than ‘own’ the infrastructure. This report provides estimates for the aggregate size of the CaaS market, categorizes vendors by revenue range, forecasts growth trends for the space, and highlights the opportunities and threats facing vendors within the market.

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This report is the latest in a series from the 451 CAOS practice examining the impact of open source on business strategies. It takes a look at open source successes, as well as vendors that have walked away from open source licensing and development projects, investigating the reasons why they failed to gain the expected benefits from open source – or open source failed to meet their requirements.

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Vendors of all shapes and sizes are vying for PaaS spending. Portability, responsiveness, and speed/ease of development and deployment will determine the winners. This report aims to illuminate the competitive dynamics of PaaS today, and examine where the battles of tomorrow will be fought.

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Vendors of all shapes and sizes are vying for PaaS spending. Portability, responsiveness, and speed/ease of development and deployment will determine the winners. This report aims to illuminate the competitive dynamics of PaaS today, and examine where the battles of tomorrow will be fought.

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This is the introductory overview report on the rapidly evolving desktop virtualization marketplace. This report provides updated estimates for the desktop virtualization ecosystem, which includes server-, client-, cloud- and OS-hosted desktop virtualization, in addition to desktop-attached user virtualization, application virtualization, and virtualized desktop management. This report also includes a breakdown of desktop virtualization revenue by geographic region, customer size and vertical markets. Desktop virtualization has evolved materially over the past few quarters, achieving an estimated 100% year-on-year growth rate in 2010. The sector has gained traction with rapidly growing interest among the vendor and investor communities. Also, enterprises today are trying to achieve a ‘cloud like’ IT environment, and desktops serve as the key link between enterprise infrastructure and end-user functionality.

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This report examines the ‘IT management as a service’ (ITMaaS) market from a revenue perspective. ITMaaS vendors provide the essential management tools that enable users to access and view an IT environment, monitor and evaluate performance, and ultimately improve the functionality of IT environments through a cloud delivery model. This report provides estimates for the aggregate size of the ITMaaS market, categorizes vendors by revenue range, forecasts growth trends for the space, and highlights the opportunities and threats facing vendors within the market.

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This report examines the app marketplaces currently being provided, for the most part, by SaaS and hybrid CRM and ERP vendors. It also looks at some emerging offerings, and the different tacks vendors are taking with their online app showcases. It includes profiles of app marketplace layers – both current and emerging – and looks ahead to map out potential directions for app marketplaces

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This report examines cloud computing in the telecom arena, including current offerings, M&A activity, market sizing and the role of strategic partnerships. It includes in-depth assessments of 10 major players in the telecom cloud market.

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This report leverages The 451 Group’s deep knowledge of and relationships within the virtualization and cloud computing marketplace, resulting in a proprietary forecast of revenue from on-ramp providers and cloud brokers based on a bottom-up analysis of 23 vendors’ current revenue and growth expectations through 2013. Included in this report are the market revenue aggregates, growth forecasts, vendor shares and segmentation by geography, customer and verticals of the on-ramps and cloud brokers sector.

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This report focuses on monitoring as one of the essential tools within the cloud-enabling technologies management stack. Included in this report are the market revenue aggregates and growth forecasts, as well as vendor shares and segmentation by geography, customers and verticals within the monitoring sector. Virtualization monitoring tools apply the principles of performance monitoring to applications running inside VMs. Some add sophisticated mathematical methods such as root-cause analysis. Some focus on the server tier alone, while others straddle the server and storage domains.

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This report provides a detailed look at the storage-as-a-service (StaaS) market from a revenue perspective. StaaS involves the provisioning of storage capacity, accessible over the Internet from a third party as a hosted service, available ‘on demand’ and metered according to usage. The StaaS segment includes both stand-alone cloud storage and platform-attached cloud storage (storage services included within a larger cloud infrastructure initiative). This report provides estimates for the aggregate size of the StaaS market, categorizes vendors by revenue range, predicts the growth trends for the space, and highlights the opportunities and threats facing vendors.

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The high traction of desktop virtualization has resulted in the emergence of a new sector within the desktop virtualization ecosystem. Virtualized desktops need to be provisioned, monitored and managed in order to provide users with an uninterrupted desktop usage experience. This report introduces virtualized desktop management (VDM) as a new sector consisting of pure-play vendors that focus solely on this specific requirement, and examines market revenue aggregates and growth forecasts. VDM is expected to have the highest CAGR within the desktop virtualization stack, and this report evaluates the VDM market size, as well as market accelerators and inhibitors affecting this nascent sector.

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This report examines the emerging market for Datacenter Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software and systems that help managers gain a clear view of the status of their datacenters. It covers the current state of the datacenter industry, as well as the drivers and inhibitors for DCIM adoption.

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This report examines the state of the enterprise SaaS marketplace (encompassing CRM, ERP, and content & collaboration). It aims to provide the reader with a broad perspective on the SaaS opportunity. The report includes current market sizing, examines drivers and inhibitors of growth, identifies trends impacting the competitive landscape, and highlights current and future competitors.

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The federal cyber-security space is becoming a hotbed of incubation, acquisition and opportunity, but how to sell into this complicated market has remained a mystery to many vendors. This report examines and explains the myriad opportunities and related monies made available to vendors by the cyber-security concerns of the government, military and intelligence communities.

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This report examines the market for cloud-enablement tools, covering critical requirements and licensing issues, and offering competitive profiles of more than 20 vendors in the space.

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This report provides an in-depth comparison of the major hypervisor offerings, and examines the rise of multi-hypervisor enterprise infrastructure. It includes a discussion of partner ecosystems and platform support, as well as implications for ISVs, enterprises and investors.

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This report examines the state of the mobile advertising space, covering the drivers and economics at work, the significant players across various segments, and the future direction of the market.

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This report provides perspective on the changing market landscape, reviews the drivers for the creation and adoption of alternatives to traditional relational databases, and examines the use cases for the various commercially viable products and services.

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This report provides perspective on the changing market landscape, reviews the drivers for the creation and adoption of alternatives to traditional relational databases, and examines the use cases for the various commercially viable products and services.

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This report looks at the market revenue aggregates, vendor shares and segmentation by geography, customer and verticals of the I/O virtualization sector. I/O virtualization has the highest CAGR within the cloud enabling technologies stack and this report evaluates the market size of this sector along with pointing out some key points, accelerators and inhibitors affecting this nascent sector.

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This is the third in a series of reports on the rapidly evolving server virtualization and cloud computing technology marketplace. This report provides updated estimates for the server virtualization and on-premises cloud-enabling technology segments, and includes a breakdown of top-line revenue by geographic region, customer size and vertical market. The report also introduces a new market-sizing taxonomy that spans the aforementioned categories and will serve as the basis of our future market-sizing efforts.

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The core objective of the Tech M&A Banking Review is to help buyers and sellers identify financial advisers that have experience in relevant markets, which should make for a more efficient transaction. The report draws on data from The 451 Group's M&A KnowledgeBase, a database that focuses exclusively on the IT and communications sectors. The KnowledgeBase tracks more than 25,000 transactions, which are searchable by more than 600 technology segments, enabling industry professionals to identify advisers that have worked on comparable transactions in those sectors. Additionally, the KnowledgeBase provides analysis of important enterprise IT transactions and offers proprietary estimates of undisclosed deal value and/or revenue for key deals.

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The Tech M&A Outlook 2011 report combines proprietary M&A transaction data with analyst insight in order to provide bankers, investors and executives with a view of the likely year ahead in technology M&A. The 100-page report provides trend data on past M&A activity and names signature deals for 2010. For 2011 and beyond, the report further offers insight on key drivers of M&A activity and names specific likely acquirers and targets for emerging segments of software, storage, systems, networks, security, mobility and hosted IT services. It also lists 20 likely IPO candidates in the above sectors along with a number of publicly traded companies that are likely to attract acquirer attention. A separate section, 'The Vanishing Enterprise Technology Company,' charts the takeouts of more than 80 public enterprise technology companies since 2001. The Tech M&A Outlook 2011 report synthesizes the views of some 45 analysts from The 451 Group and Tier1 Research and incorporates data from The 451 Group�s proprietary transactions database, the M&A KnowledgeBase.

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This report leverages The 451 Group’s deep knowledge of and relationships within the cloud computing marketplace, resulting in a proprietary forecast of revenue from PaaS based on a bottom-up analysis of 61 vendors’ current revenue and growth expectations through 2013.

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This report focuses on software tools that organizations can use to track and manage their energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other aspects of sustainability performance. Companies across the globe are continuing to increase their attention to sustainability issues, driven by a combination of existing or pending government regulations, customer attention, supply-chain pressures and competitive drivers. Within the broad scope of sustainability, energy and GHG management are receiving particular attention. One reason is the environmental community’s attention to GHGs and carbon; another is that businesses understand that carbon reductions often go hand-in-hand with cost-saving energy reductions and other competitive advantages.

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In this report, we analyze how cloud computing demands for granularity of policy definitions, service automation and transparent security are driving a demarcation between ‘legacy’ and ‘cloud’ identity management.

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The 451 Group's Cloud Codex places structure and context around our Cloud Computing research coverage. The Cloud Codex includes our Cloud Computing taxonomy, defines our market segmentations and provides additional context in regards to our research coverage.

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This report examines how the Big Four are responding to the opportunity and threat posed by the cloud. It focuses on the products and professional services these vendors can bring to bear to manage public or private cloud environments, how these offerings are positioned in the market, and what success these vendors have had to date in selling these products, as well as M&A activity - past and future - that will affect these vendors’ cloud management strategies and portfolios.

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This report analyzes the current desktop virtualization opportunity – including 27 vendors competing in this space – and highlights some of the key issues, drivers and inhibitors for the market, backed up by survey results that validate our predictions for this segment.

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This report examines the market for desktop power management products, including the technology currently available, adoption trends and user behavior, and the future direction of the market, as well as profiles of 19 prominent vendors.

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This research report, Content Delivery Networks Worldwide Market Overview: Winter 2011, is part of an ongoing series of quarterly reports on the evolving market for content delivery services. This report provides market-share data on the top public and private players, as well as figures for the overall CDN market, with a look back at the revenues for Q3 2010 and an outlook for industry revenue through 2013.

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Although revenue from cloud computing services in Asia remains insignificant at present – with high-volume, low-margin products still contributing the bulk of revenues – the market has experienced exorbitant growth between 2009 and 2010. This report examines the cloud computing market in Asia-Pacific, including analysis of individual country markets and profiles of major vendors in the region.

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This report examines the desktops-as-a-service space, including the market background and drivers. It also includes customer survey data, user case studies and profiles of both public and private vendors.

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This report leverages The 451 Group’s deep knowledge of and relationships within the cloud computing marketplace, resulting in a proprietary forecast of pre-production revenue based on a bottom-up analysis of 13 vendors’ current revenue and growth expectations through 2013. In addition, we provide high-level analysis of the on-ramps/cloud brokers and integration-as-a-service sectors. The defining factor for the offerings included in this report is the delivery model. Therefore, the vendor revenue estimates here reflect cloud offerings that are delivered ‘as a service,’ or as a hosted, metered service from a third party; thus, we exclude on-premises management software.

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This research report, Content Delivery Networks Worldwide Market Overview: Fall 2010, is part of an ongoing series of quarterly reports on the evolving market for content delivery services. This report provides market-share data on the top public and private players, as well as figures for the overall CDN market, with a look back at the revenues for Q2 2010 and an outlook for industry revenue through 2013.

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This report examines the economic drivers behind cloud-based MDM, and highlights where the industry stands in this period of transition. It includes analysis of the economics of mobile cloud computing and detailed vendor profiles.

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This report examines the economic drivers behind cloud-based MDM, and highlights where the industry stands in this period of transition. It includes analysis of the economics of mobile cloud computing and detailed vendor profiles.

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This report offers a market overview of e-discovery hosted inside and outside the firewall. It focuses on the benefits and risks of cloud e-discovery, adoption trends and inhibitors, market drivers, current vendor and service-provider offerings and the future direction of the market, particularly for enterprise customers.

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This report offers a market overview of e-discovery hosted inside and outside the firewall. It focuses on the benefits and risks of cloud e-discovery, adoption trends and inhibitors, market drivers, current vendor and service-provider offerings and the future direction of the market, particularly for enterprise customers.

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This report assesses the trends that are driving business strategies toward a renewed focus on cross-vendor collaboration. It examines the evolution of open-source-related business strategies, and presents the findings from our research and an end-user survey.

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This report provides market share and sizing information on capacity planning. Capacity planning provides insight into the virtual tier and predictive trending. This enables customers to establish new server workload and capacity management strategies based on previous events, and walks new users through the process of discovering and analyzing their assets to identify the likeliest candidates for implementation of cloud-enabling technologies.

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This report examines the overall cloud archiving market, including growth drivers, the competitive landscape and the outlook for consolidation. It offers detailed vendor profiles and end-user case studies.

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This report examines the overall cloud archiving market, including growth drivers, the competitive landscape and the outlook for consolidation. It offers detailed vendor profiles and end-user case studies.

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This is the second overview report in The 451 Group’s Market Monitor: Cloud Computing service. It examines the revenue generated by cloud service providers and technology vendors via cloud platforms – platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) – as well as services used to build and manage a cloud environment, or what we call ‘software infrastructure as a service’ (SIaaS). In addition, we provide top-line estimates for the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market, in response to many client requests to size the cloud market including these vendors.

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For the purpose of understanding virtualization security at its nascent level, this report examines the security market that consists of vendors that have integrated their core products with the virtual environment, or have developed new products to specifically cater to the virtual environment.

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This report provides a detailed examination of the market landscape, as well as profiles of prominent vendors.

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The report examines the devops trend, its impact, and how it embodies the successful implementation of cloud computing for both providers and customers. It includes a discussion of both drivers and hurdles for devops, and presents detailed case studies of current devops activity.

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The report examines the devops trend, its impact, and how it embodies the successful implementation of cloud computing for both providers and customers. It includes a discussion of both drivers and hurdles for devops, and presents detailed case studies of current devops activity.

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There is an immense amount of literature surrounding the smart grid, but its terms of reference tend to be broad. This report focuses on the associated opportunity for traditional enterprise IT vendors, and assesses the nature and scale of the market, now and in the future. It examines the various smart-grid domains, and provides detailed profiles of vendors targeting this space.

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This report is a follow-up to our 451 ICE report Innovations in High-Performance Computing, which summarized the state of the art for HPC systems, storage, networks, middleware and system software. This report describes a representative set of applications that use HPC tools, techniques and technologies to deliver results in a timely fashion, and showcases a cross-section of these capabilities.

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The North American Multi-Tenant Datacenter Supply: Emerging Major Markets 2010 report gives readers an overview of eight emerging major datacenter markets. In this report, ‘multi-tenant datacenters’ are considered multi-customer colocation and wholesale facilities. Single-user enterprise datacenters and single-tenant datacenters are specifically excluded from this analysis. This report is Tier1 Research’s first look at emerging major markets in North America. Tier1 Research historically has published a biannual look at the supply/demand situation in the top six markets in North America. This new report provides current supply, demand and utilization metrics, as well as market-specific analysis similar to Tier1 Research’s previous supply report series. This report goes further and sizes each market by existing supply levels and identifies the top three datacenter providers in each market.

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This report examines 14 vendors in the backup and HA marketplace and provides our assessment of key market value propositions and trends, growth accelerators and inhibitors, aggregate market size and growth rates, and the market share of leading vendors.

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Compute as a service (CaaS) is the provisioning of computing resources (access to raw compute or server capacity) on demand. This cloud computing layer involves the delivery of virtual or physical resources as a service, priced via a consumption-based model. CaaS was the original cloud offering, emerging in 2006 via the launch of Amazon’s EC2. While EC2 continues to enjoy a significant market-share lead, more than 50 vendors have entered the space to challenge the leader for a piece of the pie. With commoditization taking hold, the sector faces unique challenges but remains a core part of the broader cloud universe. This report examines the revenue being generated by CaaS providers, predicts the growth trends for the space, and highlights the opportunities and threats facing vendors.

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This report is a preliminary survey of this new terrain. It explores the data that is flowing out of IT infrastructure, and examines the new infrastructure platforms that are emerging to manage distributed data. Included are profiles of search vendors, as well as Map Reduce/ Hadoop vendors. The report also presents end-user survey data and case studies.

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The report includes profiles of cloud vendors and critical open source technologies, and also provides insight on the relationships, integrations and partnerships among open source vendors and larger cloud providers that offer indications of future direction and M&A.

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The report includes profiles of cloud vendors and critical open source technologies, and also provides insight on the relationships, integrations and partnerships among open source vendors and larger cloud providers that offer indications of future direction and M&A.

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This report examines the IaaS competitive landscape and its likely evolution, with special emphasis on the prominent, well-funded service providers that largely dominate the market for commodity IaaS offerings. The report puts forth a reasoned argument as to how we believe the IaaS landscape will evolve. It includes profiles of a select number of IaaS providers, which represent a cross-section of legacy IT outsourcing, hosting and telecom service providers. It also includes market-sizing analysis for the overall IaaS space, as well as the compute-as-a-service (CaaS) and storage-as-a-service (StaaS) subsegments

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This report provides market-sizing information for the data-warehousing sector from 2009 to 2013. It includes revenue estimates and growth projections, and examines the business and technology trends driving the market.

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This report provides market-share data on the top public and private players, as well as figures for the overall CDN market, with a look back at the start of 2010 and an outlook for industry revenue through 2012. The August 2010 report focuses on some key issues facing the CDN market.

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This report examines 47 vendors in the Storage as a Service (StaaS) marketplace and provides our assessment of key market value propositions and trends, growth accelerators and inhibitors, aggregate market size and growth rates, and the market share of leading vendors.

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This report examines the intersection of management and security for virtualized desktops, including end-user perspectives, current and future use cases, and an in-depth user deployment study, as well a discussion of partnership and M&A.

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This report examines the intersection of management and security for virtualized desktops, including end-user perspectives, current and future use cases, and an in-depth user deployment study, as well a discussion of partnership and M&A.

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Administration represents the first level of server virtualization management. Administration vendors provide the foundation for centralized management of all hypervisors and their VM guests. Administration products provide wizards and templates to simplify the provisioning of new VMs. They may also include some task automation and even monitor utilization of the physical server’s CPU, memory and I/O performance. The results from our recently completed survey of IT end users highlight the importance of administrative functions to a virtualized environment. While these tools represent the most mature segment within the virtualization stack, their importance to initial and ongoing virtualization management has not waned. Administrative tools help companies realize the cost savings of virtualization by bringing the virtual environment together so it can be administered from a single location.

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Automation is a critical component of a cloud environment. The ability to automate almost all aspects of infrastructure operation is absolutely necessary to meet many cloud requirements, especially around scaling, elasticity and rapid provisioning. The automation standards for a cloud are an order of magnitude more onerous than even the most advanced enterprise IT infrastructure. Included in our analysis are 36 vendors that we have identified with a stand-alone cloud automation product offering.

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The term application deployment describes a set of tools for simplifying and managing application stacks to lower the complexity and cost of deploying applications throughout an organization. The companies included in our analysis are six vendors we have identified with a stand-alone application deployment capability. Deploying applications has always been a labor-intensive and complicated chore. Add the complexities of virtualization and cloud computing infrastructures underpinning large multi-tier agile Web applications, and deployment emerges as a significant performance bottleneck and creates a material challenge for IT staff.

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Cloud computing is becoming a ‘first-class citizen’ for executing workloads. More than half of users surveyed report that they are piloting projects to experiment with and test clouds. Nearly 40% of users are employing clouds for noncritical applications, and a little under one-third are using clouds for critical applications. This report presents and examines the findings of our extensive cloud end-user survey.

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Desktop virtualization isn’t a replacement for terminal services; it’s a new way to manage all desktops. To retain the server-based computing options, though, with their promise of centralization and control, vendors must provide new, faster and more powerful methods for remote rendering of computer graphics. The new generation of intelligent, adaptive protocols is a critical success factor for desktop virtualization frameworks. In this report, we profile the primary protocols in use or in development, with a focus on virtual desktop environments.

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As companies move into the cloud, IT managers will be faced with new challenges to manage their cloud environments. A critical component of this management process is visibility into the IT environment, and the manner in which information is captured, interpreted and presented to managers. The vendors in this report offer control panels in the form of Web-based interfaces that are designed to assist managers in viewing and controlling operational tasks alongside monitoring and analyzing the performance of their servers, hardware and datacenters.

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This report examines the commercial implications of open source in content management. Its focus is on the vendors that have tied their business models to the availability of open source code and the customers that are willing to engage financially with these vendors. This generally means paying for support contracts, commercial versions of open source products, or other vendor-provided products or services. This report investigates these models and analyzes how this affects the content management sector overall.

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This report examines the commercial implications of open source in content management. Its focus is on the vendors that have tied their business models to the availability of open source code and the customers that are willing to engage financially with these vendors. This generally means paying for support contracts, commercial versions of open source products, or other vendor-provided products or services. This report investigates these models and analyzes how this affects the content management sector overall.

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We examine 28 vendors in the cloud monitoring marketplace and provide our assessment of key market value propositions and trends, growth accelerators and inhibitors, aggregate market size and growth rates, and the market share of leading vendors.

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This report examines nine vendors in the application fabric marketplace and provides our assessment of key market value propositions and trends, growth accelerators and inhibitors, aggregate market size and growth rates, and the market share of leading vendors, as well as recommendations for vendors. In addition, we provide an overview of the broader automation landscape, which, along with application fabric, includes automation (the VM lifecycle management, IT process automation and provisioning automation segments), application deployment and test lab automation.

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This report provides an overview of the current e-discovery market, outlining the product, service and overall vendor landscape; highlighting features and technology trends differentiating successful e-discovery providers; predicting future trends and M&A in the sector; and offering profiles of 32 prominent vendors in the space. We also examine the broader impact of change in e-discovery today – its effect on the rest of the legal sector and the information management software market, and its effect on international business.

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This research report is the second in a series of reports on the rapidly evolving virtualization marketplace. The data in this report was assembled using The 451 Group’s proprietary virtualization database, which currently tracks 110 market participants. The estimates contained in our database are continually updated when new information/insight is received from our team of industry and financial analysts. In addition, findings from a recent survey of virtualization users and potential users aided in the estimate update process.

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According to our March 2010 survey, the majority of companies manage the smartphones used by their employees, but there is still a significant population that does not. The report discusses the options these companies have for managing smartphones, which are in some cases running wild within organizations.

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This research report, Content Delivery Networks Worldwide Market Overview: Spring 2010, is part of an ongoing series of quarterly reports on the evolving market for content delivery services.

This report provides market-share data on the top public and private players, as well as figures for the overall CDN market, with a final look back at 2009 with Q4 figures and an outlook for industry revenue through 2012.

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This report contains analysis of venture funding in open-source-related vendors in 2009 based on The 451 Group’s database of more than 450 funding deals, beginning with the investment in Cygnus Systems from Greylock Partners and August Capital in 1997. We also include the results of a snapshot survey of private investors, designed to complement our previous survey of the sentiment of private investors toward open source, and the likely impact of economic conditions on investment in open-source-related vendors.

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At its highest level, test lab automation reproduces a physical test lab (or other dynamic IT environment) using VMs instead of hardware. The advantage is that when these dynamic environments need to be created, torn down or changed, this can be done in software, thereby materially lowering the cost and complexity of building and managing a physical test lab environment. This report offers a proprietary forecast of industry revenue based on a bottom-up analysis of participating vendors’ current revenue and growth expectations.

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This report leverages The 451 Group’s deep knowledge of and relationships within the cloud computing marketplace, resulting in a proprietary forecast of cloud on-ramp revenue based on a bottom-up analysis of 13 vendors’ current revenue and growth expectations. In addition, we provide high-level analysis of the cloud consoles, monitoring and analytics sectors, which, along with on-ramps, make up the management pillar of our cloud taxonomy.

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This report examines the state of the PaaS market today, where it is going, what the most popular uses of PaaS will be, and what other software disciplines will be most impacted by PaaS.

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This report examines the state of the PaaS market today, where it is going, what the most popular uses of PaaS will be, and what other software disciplines will be most impacted by PaaS.

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This report examines the cloudy nature of current business apps, covering vendors in terms of what we judge to be their current cloud commitment – our ‘cloudy now,’ ‘cloudy wannabes’ and ‘cloudy later’ designations. It also provides analysis of M&A activity and offers market-sizing projections.

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This report examines the cloudy nature of current business apps, covering vendors in terms of what we judge to be their current cloud commitment – our ‘cloudy now,’ ‘cloudy wannabes’ and ‘cloudy later’ designations. It also provides analysis of M&A activity and offers market-sizing projections.

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This report examines how open source software vendors spend and invest in sales and marketing, what seems to be working, and the key factors involved. It also considers the ways in which non-open-source firms are borrowing techniques from open source – through free versions, SaaS and cloud computing distribution models, and bona fide communities of developers and users – forcing the open source players to further differentiate their offerings and drive successful sales and marketing.

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This report takes the measure of the modern cybercrime epidemic, makes some predictions about the direction that sophisticated cybercrime and state-sponsored espionage will take in the next few years, and evaluates existing vendor responses to the shifting threat landscape. It also examines some of the technologies and tools that we believe will be increasingly important parts of the enterprise cybercrime- fighting toolkit. Additionally, it considers the existing vendor landscape and what kinds of partnerships and M&A opportunities the cybercrime epidemic might create in the years ahead.

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This report examines the state of the market for network-based application performance management, including a discussion of the key concepts and elements of network management, as well as analysis of specific products and vendors.

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This report examines the major innovations in HPC, including developments in the areas of processors, accelerators, systems, memory, storage, networking, applications, development tools and middleware.

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Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings occupy an interesting but hazy middle ground between infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and SaaS, and are designed to offer a large-scale development platform for application developers. Based on our cloud taxonomy, PaaS and IaaS represent the infrastructure of cloud computing. IaaS vendors provide outsourced infrastructure (servers, OS, storage, datacenter space, etc.) via a virtualized environment. The PaaS vendors in this analysis provide a computing environment where multiple applications share a single development platform and common services, including authentication, authorization and billing. The market is highly touted, but current revenue levels are modest, with a handful of players dominating the landscape today. However, as the market evolves and vendors vie for market share using price and service levels as weapons, the PaaS marketplace, and the vendor leader board, will certainly shift.

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The term 'automation' is used to cover a very wide range of tools, and therefore warrants a multi-segment analysis. In this report, you will find analysis of and revenue estimates for the VM lifecycle management, IT process automation and provisioning automation segments - these make up the 'automation' sector of our virtualization taxonomy. In addition, the report includes a high-level analysis of related sectors in the virtualization stack: application deployment, application fabric and test lab automation.

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The core objective of the Tech M&A Banking Review is to help buyers and sellers identify financial advisers that have experience in relevant markets, which should make for a more efficient transaction. The report draws on data from The 451 Group’s M&A KnowledgeBase, a database that focuses exclusively on the IT and communications sectors. The KnowledgeBase tracks more than 22,000 transactions, which are searchable by more than 600 technology segments, enabling industry professionals to identify advisers that have worked on comparable transactions in those sectors. Additionally, the KnowledgeBase provides analysis of important enterprise IT transactions and offers proprietary estimates of undisclosed deal value and/or revenue for key deals.

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Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) was the first true cloud offering. The concept of outsourced infrastructure (servers, OS, storage, datacenter space, etc.) delivered via a virtualized environment was well received during the recent recession as established companies and startups alike looked for ways to cut their capex and opex expenses. Amazon Web Services’ EC2 launched a movement that has blossomed into a teeming marketplace with over 40 vendors vying for control. While Amazon maintains a lead in terms of market share, the competition (both large vendors and startups) are gunning for their share of the nascent but very promising enterprise marketplace. This report provides an overview of the IaaS marketplace, including key trends, growth drivers and inhibitors, current market size and expected growth for the next five years, as well as vendor market share. As an added feature, we have included the aggregate sizing of the IaaS-attached storage market and the total cloud revenue for the vendors included in this report.

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This report provides an overview of the user virtualization marketplace, including key trends, growth divers and inhibitors, current market size and expected growth for the next five years, as well as vendor market share. As an added feature, we have included analysis of the aggregate desktop and application virtualization market, thereby rounding out what we consider the broader desktop virtualization marketplace.

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The growth opportunity for public and private clouds over the next two or three years is significant. In the consumer space, almost the entire opportunity will be for public clouds providing applications and hosted desktops that deliver household savings. In the SMB sector, the opportunity will be mostly public – perhaps 75%, with some internal private cloud adoption. But in the enterprise sector, the opportunity is mostly internal – with perhaps 75% of the market going to private clouds. The range of approaches used to target both SMBs and enterprises will include basic application services and compute resource provision, as well as cost and ecosystem (partner/supplier) management, virtual machine management and legacy migration. At the enterprise end, capacity expansion and ‘cloudbursting,’ disaster recovery,resilience, and rapid development and test resources will also be drivers. Cloud adoption is being legitimized, and adoption in 2010 will move beyond the cloud trailblazers to broader enterprise use across all models – public, private and hybrid. These are the pragmatists who have taken a ‘wait and see’ approach. While expectations have been understandably low in terms of clarity and consistency, these users haven’t dismissed the cloud itself. They have been doing diligence on products, the market and what’s been achieved by early adopters. They can see the (dollar) signs of change and are ready to act. But ultimately there will be a smaller number of big public clouds and a larger number of private clouds.

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The Tech M&A Outlook 2010 report combines proprietary M&A transaction data with analyst insight in order to provide bankers, investors and executives with a view of the likely year ahead in technology M&A. The 90-page report provides trend data on past M&A activity and names signature deals for 2009. For 2010 and beyond, the report further offers insight on key drivers of M&A activity and names specific likely acquirers and targets for emerging segments of software, storage, systems, networks, security, mobility and hosted IT services. It also names 30 likely IPO candidates in the above sectors along with a number of publicly traded companies that are likely to attract acquirer attention. The Tech M&A Outlook 2010 report synthesizes the views of some 40 analysts from The 451 Group and Tier1 Research and incorporates data from The 451 Group’s proprietary transactions database, the M&A KnowledgeBase.

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The Internet Datacenter Global Markets Overview 2010 report provides the overall size, scope and growth of the Internet datacenter market globally. The report segments the global market into regions including North America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA); Asia-Pacific and Latin America. It spotlights various prominent global Internet datacenter providers and provides a market outlook for each.

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Application virtualization is the latest in a series of attempts to centralize and simplify management of large fleets of Windows desktops and the applications they support. It is an abstraction layer between a Windows OS and application that decouples the two to make them separately manageable. In aggregate, application virtualization technologies do for Windows desktop applications what desktop virtualization does for the Windows operating system itself – they decouple payloads from underlying resources. This report leverages The 451 Group’s deep knowledge of and relationships within the application virtualization software marketplace, resulting in a proprietary forecast of industry revenue based on a bottoms-up analysis of 16 vendors’ current revenue and growth expectations. The 451 Group’s virtualization database generates a projection of the aggregate virtualization software marketplace through 2013.

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The proliferation of cloud automation offerings has created considerable market confusion. A closer look at the significant sample of vendors already covered by The 451 Group starts to reveal some striking patterns. Automation technology can be classified into a dozen or so types – by technology, approach or the kind of problem being addressed. This report offers a preliminary taxonomy of these types, and the associated vendors. It examines the automation ecosystem, from configuration tools to physical and virtualization automation frameworks. It also covers sector M&A activity and adjacent markets.

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This research report, ‘Content Delivery Networks, Worldwide Market Overview: Winter 2010,’ is part of a series of quarterly reports on the evolving market for content delivery services. The report provides market-share data on the top public and private players, as well as figures for the overall CDN market, with updated Q3 2009 figures and an outlook for industry revenue through 2012.

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Cloud storage is a new way of delivering storage capacity to individuals and businesses. Although definitions are somewhat amorphous at present, cloud storage services generally have two defining characteristics: capacity is offered and billed for on an on-demand basis; and storage is provided by, and often located at, a third-party service provider. This report leverages The 451 Group's deep knowledge of and relationships within the cloud storage marketplace, resulting in a proprietary forecast of industry revenue based on a bottom-up analysis of 16 vendors current revenue and growth expectations. The 451 Group's cloud computing database generates a projection of the cloud storage market through 2013.

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This is the introductory report for The 451 Group’s Market Monitor: Cloud Computing service, a series of market-sizing reports on the rapidly evolving cloud computing marketplace. The following analysis examines the revenue generated by cloud service providers and by technology vendors via cloud platforms – including platform-as-aservice (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings, as well as the enabling technologies needed to build and manage a public cloud environment. This report provides the current aggregate market size and growth expectations through 2013 for the aforementioned cloud sectors, and serves as the foundation for our quantitative cloud computing coverage.

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This report provides an overview of the potential opportunity and role that solid-state storage technologies will have in the enterprise storage market, with an emphasis on the current generation of enterprise flash-drive products. Although the blinding performance of NAND-flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) has captured the attention of enterprise customers and vendors, reliability and cost continue to confine solid-state storage adoption to niche markets. In the report, we also highlight the pluses and minuses of current deployment options and discuss how innovation among both startups and large vendors could potentially alter the market landscape in the near future.

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The proliferation of cloud automation offerings has created considerable market confusion. A closer look at the significant sample of vendors already covered by The 451 Group starts to reveal some striking patterns. Automation technology can be classified into a dozen or so types – by technology, approach or the kind of problem being addressed. This report offers a preliminary taxonomy of these types, and the associated vendors. It examines the automation ecosystem, from configuration tools to physical and virtualization automation frameworks. It also covers sector M&A activity and adjacent markets.

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This report includes a survey of more than 1,700 open source software users and customers, assessing their current attitudes on the key benefits of open source software, including cost and flexibility. It also includes a comparison with a similar survey conducted by The 451 Group in 2006. The report also serves as a practical guide for understanding the financial benefits of open source, and includes an updated version of The 451 Group’s previously published guide for calculating the financial benefits of open source in enterprise IT projects. It provides IT managers, architects, vendors, investors and others with a basic financial analysis approach and calculator to identify and capture the costs and potential benefits of open source software.

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This report examines the desktop virtualization market – including serverhosted, client-hosted, OS-hosted and cloud-hosted offerings – and features aggregate market growth expectations, as well as breakdowns of total revenue and vendor/product by market subsector. The report also covers overall growth drivers and inhibitors and includes detailed snapshots of 26 vendors.

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This report examines the opportunity for performance and availability management vendors offered by cloud computing. This includes management of both public and private cloud environments. We cover the different approaches that performance and availability management vendors are taking and which players are gaining the most traction so far, along with where the demands are greatest among the end-user community. In particular, we focus on the role that new startups and other privately held software vendors can play.

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This report examines the opportunity for performance and availability management vendors offered by cloud computing. This includes management of both public and private cloud environments. We cover the different approaches that performance and availability management vendors are taking and which players are gaining the most traction so far, along with where the demands are greatest among the end-user community. In particular, we focus on the role that new startups and other privately held software vendors can play.

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This report looks specifically at the virtualization monitoring segment of the marketplace, providing data on market size, growth and share, and offering insight into key trends, growth accelerators and growth inhibitors.

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The report covers financial exchanges, datacenter providers and connectivity vendors, as well as a cross-section of value-added technology and financial services companies - all in the context of colocation. It identifies the major datacenter facilities at the heart of financial markets, consolidates and explains the limited amount of latency information available, and provides maps that aid in understanding where a critical mass of financial activity is building in different geographies.

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In this report, we take a close look at the application virtualization market, examining its origins and evolution, as well as the current state of play. Both incumbent and next-generation vendors are highlighted, and customer case studies are provided. The report also covers market sizing, M&A activity and relevant adjacent markets.

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This is the second in a series of cloud infrastructure reports for 2009, that contrasts the leaders of the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) sectors. Profiles include Amazon�s Web Services, Google AppEngine, Windows Azure, Force.com and Rackspace. The report describes the direction these cloud service providers are taking as they expand beyond rudimentary infrastructure as a service plays and infringe on the traditional dedicated and managed services market. The consumer of these cloud services has changed from a year ago � public clouds are no longer being addressed solely to ISVs and developers. Instead, modern clouds are tailored to the needs of the enterprise market, the federal sector and other highly regulated and compliance-seeking industries. This report showcases some of the concerns of these users, and how some of the cloud leaders have evolved their offerings to attract serious enterprise users to their platforms. This includes insight into the new APIs, features and innovations coming into the market that are alleviating fears of the cloud and proving of greater value than traditional services.

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This report explores the role that identity will play as a central security construct in cloud infrastructure and cloud-based services, and how the transition presents both challenges to current architectures and opportunities to reshape the market.

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This report explores the role that identity will play as a central security construct in cloud infrastructure and cloud-based services, and how the transition presents both challenges to current architectures and opportunities to reshape the market.

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In this report, we define the present state of the enterprise search and text analysis markets and vendor landscapes, provide estimates for the current market size, and forecast the likely growth through 2013. We cite drivers and challenges in adoption, and identify potential areas of opportunity.

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This report reflects a bottom-up analysis of 117 vendors’ current revenue and growth expectations though 2013. The estimates in this report leverage the deep industry knowledge and relationships of The 451 Group and its wholly owned subsidiary, Tier1 Research. The data is based on information gleaned from financial filings and other public sources, along with countless discussions with industry participants and management teams, followed by extensive internal debate and data validation

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In this report, we examine ways in which users are developing such PVC strategies, what tools and processes are being used, what’s working and what’s not, and how effective vendors are in meeting users’ needs. The report provides a perspective on cloud computing adoption trends at end-user organizations across multiple industries.

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This report provides an overview of the data-warehousing vendor landscape, as tracked by The 451 Group, and examines the business and technology trends driving this market. It identifies 10 key technology trends in data warehousing and assesses how they can be used to choose the technologies and vendors that are best suited to a would-be customer and its specific application.

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This report provides an overview of the data-warehousing vendor landscape, as tracked by The 451 Group, and examines the business and technology trends driving this market. It identifies 10 key technology trends in data warehousing and assesses how they can be used to choose the technologies and vendors that are best suited to a would-be customer and its specific application.

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This report examines the cloud storage market in depth, including the evolution of the technology, drivers and deployment models, and profiles of 26 vendors and service providers.

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This report examines the cloud storage market in depth, including the evolution of the technology, drivers and deployment models, and profiles of 26 vendors and service providers.

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This research report, 'Content Delivery Networks Worldwide Market Overview: Fall 2009,' is part of an ongoing series of quarterly reports on the evolving market for content delivery services. Like all reports in the series, this report provides market-share data on the top public and private players, as well as figures for the overall CDN market with updated Q2 2009 figures. This edition of the report looks at how the CDN landscape has already been reshaped by M&A in the first half of 2009. Included is a historical overview of M&A activity in the CDN market and related technologies, listed both by company and in reverse chronological order (from most recent to oldest deal). T1R offers its insights on how M&A can be used as a strategic tool to transform the CDN market into an industry that is better suited to survive the current economic storm.

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This report focuses specifically on unstructured and semi-structured information and governance as it relates primarily to litigation readiness. It examines the market dynamics and drivers, as well as adoption trends, and includes profiles of 15 vendors active in this space.

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This report outlines the market drivers for datacenter reporting and management tools, categorizes the main types of products, and identifies over 30 suppliers offering more than 50 tools that are substantially or entirely concerned with monitoring, analyzing, managing and reducing datacenter energy use. We include in this group a number of innovative companies that have developed power management technology for servers.

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This report examines how next-generation user data management can benefit employees by liberating their workspaces. It includes profiles of both vendors and customers, and discusses market sizing and M&A activity. It also takes a look at adjacent technologies such as desktop and application virtualization, terminal services and thin clients.

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‘Cloud computing’ is one of the hottest terms in IT today. Yet if one asks what it means, a dozen answers will emerge, many of them steeped in ‘marketecture,’ as vendors redefine hardware, software and service offerings in light of the newest fad. But that is not satisfactory – cloud computing is not just whatever a product manager says it is on a given day. There must be some level playing field, some criteria from a neutral third party defined in some way other than simply that which makes certain vendors happy.

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The Cloud Infrastructure Services report is a follow-on from last year’s Next-Generation Hosting reports, and the first such report for 2009. This report focuses on the managed hosting sector, describing changes taking place among the most prominent hosters that have made the paradigm shift to cloud services. T1R has noticed a greater degree of maturity and nuanced differences in the more sophisticated cloud infrastructure services that managed hosters are offering in the market. For the first time, T1R will provide the most accurate market-sizing numbers for the cloud infrastructure market, eliminating the meaningless numbers that have been thrown around in the market, and extrapolating just the pure-play cloud services numbers. The market will be further disaggregated into those providers that are fostering public and commodity cloud offerings, separate from those creating more complex private cloud environments.

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This 451 CAOS report examines the claim - perpetuated by both proprietary vendors competing against open source and some within the larger open source community seeking limitations - that open source licenses are proliferating out of control. Instead, our research suggests that the abundance and variety of open source licenses has helped open source software and the vendors that choose it by providing flexibility, effective development and distribution, and the ability to mix open source with proprietary code and licensing. Furthermore, it appears there are, in fact, fewer than a dozen open source licenses accounting for nearly all enterprise use of open source. This report identifies those licenses and explores why they have emerged among dozens of others as the most popular choices. By analyzing the open source license choices among enterprises and talking with vendors and users regarding their decisions, we also uncover the characteristics that drive preferences for specific licenses.

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Since our last report in 2007 on the enterprise security information management (ESIM) industry, a decisive shift has occurred in the marketplace. Where real-time correlation was the primary value proposition for many vendors and their customers, the difficulty in achieving the panacea promised by correlation was in feeding data that provided relevant business context into the system - we know what they say about ‘garbage in.’ A string of changes to the regulatory and security environment for enterprises resulted in higher spending, shorter sales cycles and more hype. As customers began to seek more value for their converged security-compliance dollar, log management eclipsed correlation as the primary feature or value driver for ESIM deployments. This has changed the competitive landscape, caused leading players to introduce new product features, and contributed to bankruptcies, asset sales, mergers and acquisitions.

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This research report, ‘Content Delivery Networks Worldwide Market Overview: Summer 2009,’ is part of an ongoing series of quarterly reports on the evolving market for content delivery services. This edition of the report takes a look at the overall health of the market for CDN services and offers T1R’s perspective on what lies ahead for vendors.

After a strong 2008, the worldwide market for CDN services is going to face a lot of headwind in a weak economy. As a result, the CDN services market is expected to grow a modest 9.5% over 2008 results. While T1R expects to see continued strong growth in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region over the next 18 months, a lack of catalysts for growth in North America will dampen overall market growth into 2010.

The cooling of the market for content delivery has rekindled efforts to diversify and add new services continue to pick up steam. For some vendors, this will mean acquisition activity in technologies related to digital media distribution as well as other CDNs, while others are adding services such as whole site acceleration and looking at heading into application-level acceleration. Others are repositioning themselves to offer infrastructure services for cloud computing.

The summer 2009 report provides market-share data on the top public and private players, as well as figures for the overall CDN market with updated Q1 2009 figures. Profiles of top vendors are included, with summaries of major developments as they pertain to worldwide sales and strategy.

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This report examines a fundamental change in how computer systems can be made more resilient and less prone to failure, more simply than in the past and at lower cost. The ‘break point’ has been the advent of server virtualization, which adds a new element to the mix of hardware redundancy, clustering, replication and shared storage utilities that have traditionally been used to implement high availability, business continuity, fault tolerance and disaster recovery.

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‘Desktop Virtualization: Server, Client and Cloud’ discusses, in detail, the three emerging strategies for running end-user workspaces inside virtual machines. By decoupling software workloads from hardware resources, these strategies promise significant cost savings and improvements in management, compliance and mobility of enterprise workstations; but realizing those promises is not always straightforward. This report examines two dozen vendor offerings around server-hosted, client-hosted and cloud-hosted virtualization, comparing their technologies and feature sets. It looks at deployment strategies in the form of 10 case studies. It reviews the size of the market based on 451 internal estimates and projections, includes overviews of six adjacent markets, and explores possibilities for M&A. This report should help enterprise end users narrow down their options; vendors assess the competitive landscape; and potential partners and investors identify emerging opportunities around this exciting new market.

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Client Disconnected: Internet Content/Entertainment Providers and Interconnection discusses, in detail, a number of significant issues confronting Internet Content/ Entertainment Providers (ICEPs) in regard to their Internet interconnection strategies. Those ICEP firms include Internet content and search portals; sports and entertainmentfocused websites; massively multiplayer online gaming providers; the so-called “casual gaming” sites; social networking and personal interaction websites; and streaming media and IPTV providers. Client Disconnected takes a head-on look at the current strategies for Internet interconnection and datacenter selection being utilized by these ICEPs and provides direct and actionable advice on how to improve the precarious positions and poorly thought out architectures in wide deployment throughout the industry. Most importantly, Client Disconnected introduces the Internet Connectivity Quality Score ranking to enable ICEPs to evaluate themselves with peers on an objective basis.

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The Carrier-Neutral Colocation report is designed to be a guide to the carrier-neutral colocation marketplace for 2009. The report discusses facilities and providers whose primary service offering is carrier-neutral colocation as opposed to managed services. Many of the observations from this report are applicable to managed services providers that sell colocation, as well as carrier colocation providers who are competing directly with the carrier-neutral providers.

The report includes a market overview and discussion of industry terminology, basic datacenter anatomy, power trends, efficiency metrics, interconnection trends through 2012, colocation customer perceptions and priorities and colocation discount structures and pricing strategies.

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This third report in our low-latency series examines the tools used to understand where latency arises. It highlights vendors that provide tools to analyze latency; financial services vendors, for which latency can be a differentiator; and traders, for which low latency can deliver more profit than low prices. To win the low-latency arms race, a firm must first understand its latency and how it accrues. Only then can decisions be made about which application should be optimized and whether messaging infrastructure needs to be accelerated. There is no point in reducing the latency of one component from 100 to 10 microseconds (10^-6 seconds), if another component takes 10 milliseconds (10^-3 seconds). This report examines such latency issues. It includes a number of case studies, and it maps out the vendors that provide tools that capture, store and analyze latency.

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This research report, Content Delivery Networks European Market Overview: Spring 2009, is part of an ongoing series of quarterly reports on the evolving market for content delivery services. This edition of the report focuses on providers of CDN services and their efforts to expand in Europe.

The spring 2009 report provides market-share data on the top public and private players in Europe, as well as figures for the overall CDN market with updated Q4 figures.

The role of new entrants like Deutsche Telekom, Global Crossing and Tata Communications will be examined. Additionally, profiles of top vendors are included, with summaries of major developments as they pertain to European sales and strategy.

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The Enterprise Datacenter Selection Report gives readers an overview of the selection criteria used by enterprise customers in choosing a datacenter facility. This report focuses on the selection process used by enterprises to select outsourced datacenter services from Internet infrastructure datacenter providers, including wholesale datacenter and colocation providers and does not include traditional IT outsourcers such as IBM or HP. This report focuses on selective outsourcing of datacenter services and not full-blown traditional IT outsourcing that includes datacenter services.

This report looks at the datacenter build vs. buy decision for enterprises, redundant datacenter architecture strategies and datacenter selection criteria. The report also includes detailed Request for Information (RFI) requirements that can be turned into an RFI document for use by enterprises to evaluate and rate responses from potential datacenter providers.

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Venture Funding for Open Source 1997-2008 Vendors building businesses around open source software are attractive targets for private investors. This report assesses the history of private investment in open source vendors between 1997 and 2008, as well as investor motivations, exit strategies and the likely impact of economic conditions on future investment opportunities.

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This report reviews the recent history of the anti-malware agent and identifies some of the factors that led to the current state of affairs. It traces the contours of some of the new thinking about endpoint agents and their role within enterprise security, and some new approaches to protection that we see gaining prominence in the months and years ahead.

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How SaaS Is Driving New Opportunities in Application and Data Integration Forget SOA. Increasing adoption of software as a service will drive new demand for integration software that bridges the data gap between on-demand and on-premises applications. This report examines the appeal of SaaS vs. the appeal of SOA, projects the growth of this software segment, and looks at the key vendors that provide SaaS integration and that will benefit from the expected increase in SaaS adoption.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing the Rules The end-user appetite for cloud computing extends well beyond the Amazon delta, offering new ways for IT services to be procured and delivered for organizations of all sizes. This reports examines adoption for internal and external cloud services, the experiences of early adopters and what’s on the horizon.

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The Tech M&A Banking Review 2008 ranks leading M&A deal advisers in the technology industry for 2008. The objective of the report is to help buyers and sellers identify financial advisers that have had experience with companies like theirs. The report provides rankings of deal advisers for more than 30 market sectors. In addition, it names advisers to key transactions in rapidly emerging sectors such as virtualization, software-as-a-service, healthcare information technology and others. The report draws on data from The 451 Group’s M&A KnowledgeBase, a database specialized for the technology and communications markets. The KnowledgeBase tracks more than 19,000 transactions in more than 600 information technology and telecommunications sectors. In addition to providing proprietary deal analysis and valuation data, this database enables industry professionals to identify advisers that have advised buyers or sellers in any of those sectors.

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The M&A Outlook 2009 Report combines The 451 Group’s proprietary M&A data with analyst insight in order to provide bankers, investors and executives with a view of the likely year ahead in technology M&A. The report synthesizes the views of more than 30 analysts from The 451 Group and Tier1 Research who have spent the past year covering hundreds of transactions by key acquirers.

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Virtualization changes IT infrastructure, and in doing so, changes the existing security posture of the organization. This report examines the uses of virtualization for security, how to make virtual infrastructure more secure, and the products now on the market at the intersection of virtualization and security.

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This report is published as the winter 2009 report in an ongoing series of quarterly reports on the evolving market for content delivery services. The winter 2009 report provides market-share data on the top public and private players in the market. In addition, we are including estimates of revenue generated from reseller partners, an item we addressed in the fall 2008 report as being a significant factor in the growth of the CDN market going forward.

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This report explores the background of the credit crunch and the drivers in the industry that will affect IT deployments going forward. For vendors we highlight the issues affecting the financial sector that technology can positively impact, and for financial services firms we identify technologies that can help their organizations be more successful in the current financial climate.

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This report is an attempt to bring some clarity to the hot and fast-moving — and fragmented yet consolidating — e-discovery market, and in doing so enable a variety of stakeholders — end users, financiers, IT vendors and service providers — to better understand the current technology market landscape and where it’s heading. The backbone of the report is a comprehensive discussion of the vendors we consider to be the key market players in e-discovery, as well as our interpretation of how they map to the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), a widely used framework that breaks the e-discovery process into a number of related steps. We also provide an overview of what we consider the main market drivers,from both the US and international perspectives, discuss the potential disruptive technologies, and take a look at how suppliers may consolidate further.

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Apple’s iPhone has changed what we expect from smartphones and mobile computing. Has Apple decided to sit out widespread enterprise adoption in order to defend its user experience? What opportunities does this create for Apple – and its competitors – in a rejuvenated smartphone industry?

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Dramatic shifts in how applications are consumed and delivered, combined with the fraying of the network perimeter, have created the need for an access policy framework. It is an ‘adapt or die’ moment for identity management, but uncertainty still pervades how the transition will unfold.

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Virtualization solves many problems, but brings others in its wake. Already early adopters are struggling with virtual machine sprawl. This report looks at the most promising technology around to address it - production virtualization automation.

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This report details the similarities and differences of the 2000 to 2003 peak to valley valuation decline with the 2007 peak to current lows by analyzing the business actions, fundamental financial performance, and related valuation multiples since 2000. Full analysis is performed for five firms who were public for the entire period since 2000 and then another seven with less history or less historic relevance. In addition to raw details, the report reaches and provides support for its conclusions, but also presents scenarios and items to monitor that would prove or derail the report’s conclusions.

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What are the hurdles, benefits, opportunities and risks to using open source in mobile software? How will it stack up against proprietary, sometimes entrenched, competition? What about adoption in the more mainstream consumer device market and the mobile enterprise — will open source present challenges or opportunities for vendors that choose it?

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This report examines how environmental and energy security law and policy, both in the US and internationally, will affect, or is already affecting, the IT industry and corporate IT. It discusses the type and scope of existing and coming legislation, and how this might benefit, or threaten, IT suppliers.

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This report follows financial messages as they emerge from trading venues as market data, are delivered to banks and absorbed into their internal messaging systems and then return to trading venues as trade requests. It explores latency issues, highlights de facto and emerging standard messaging protocols and identifies trends in the technology being deployed to support messaging.

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This report is intended to shine some light on service-oriented architecture (SOA), an overhyped and confusing technology concept, and to learn more about how end-user organizations are embracing SOA, as well as how they’re defining and implementing it. We also look ahead to emerging technologies like virtualization and cloud computing that could enable SOA to work better and ultimately increase SOA adoption.

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This report assesses the development, licensing and revenue-generation strategies used by vendors that market products and services based on open source code. The report is also designed to assess the impact that open source license choice, development model, vendor licensing strategy, revenue triggers and sales models have on each other in determining the overall business model used by businesses selling products and services based on open source software.

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Virtualization automation technology brings significant time, cost and personnel savings to test and development environments. This report explains virtual lab automation technology and assesses existing vendors and their potential for M&A activity.

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With malicious code mushrooming and auditors looming, enterprises are ready to call in the experts. This report examines the future direction of both managed security and security SaaS offerings.

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The Tier1 Research report, 'Content Delivery Networks: Can Partnerships Accelerate Growth?' provides market-share data on the top public and private players in the market. Past reports have given an overview of the industry and profiles of a number of the CDN vendors. This is the first report in our series to focus exclusively on a single issue for the industry, with research augmented by profiles of a number of partners to the CDN industry.

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This report serves as an introduction to, and overview of, the online backup opportunity. We provide a detailed overview of the emerging online backup supplier landscape, target markets, end-user adoption trends and future evolution, making this a critical source of information for anyone aiming to understand the dynamics of the market from an investor, vendor, service-provider or end-user perspective.

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This latest T1R report explores the near-term economics (measured in ROI terms) of on-demand human capital management (HCM) applications (which we limit to recruiting and performance management solutions).

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This report examines IT power consumption with a focus on managing power, managing datacenters and investing in and understanding the eco-efficient IT agenda.

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This report considers the role and impact that community Linux distributions such as CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu have on commercial vendors. It also considers the general trend toward more options when it comes to using and supporting enterprise Linux. What do these freely distributed, community-developed Linux distros and additional commercial options mean for the enterprise Linux market?

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The Tech M&A Banking Review: Cross-Atlantic Advisory ranks bankers who've advised on transactions between North America and European Union (EU) companies and provides a full list of advisers who gained cross-border experience in specific sectors.

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The Summer 2008 CDN Market Overview is part of an ongoing series of Tier1 Research quarterly reports on the evolving market for content delivery services. The Summer 2008 report includes a summary of the major events and trends shaping the market in Q108, and provides market-share data on the top public and private players in the market as well as updated forecasts for 2008 revenues. An update on the Akamai and Limelight Networks lawsuit is included, along with our take on its impact on the CDN industry.

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This report aims to guide vendors, investors and end users around some of the pitfalls desktop virtualization presents. It defines desktop virtualization, segments the markets, examines when the approach is and isn’t appropriate, delves into some of the technology and organizational challenges, and profiles both the startup and incumbent players – as ever, with an eye on the M&A environment.

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This report examines cloud computing, beginning with this clear-cut definition of the technology. It then looks at the cloud computing trend – by analyzing the technology, as well as the economic models and delivery mechanisms involved – with the goal of separating the reality from the hype.

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The report focuses on the business processes, business practices and culture of the anti-data-leakage (ADL) space. It proffers a specific framework to help executives discover exactly how it is that their organization goes about doing what it does to make money, serve its constituents or educate its student body, and how to assess the risk and impact of leakage or theft of data at any part of that process chain.

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This report examines the existing low-latency market, scrutinizing technology advances within the context of the requirements of low-latency architectures for financial trading. It looks at low latency from both business and technology perspectives, and provides insight not only for those involved in building and using high-performance trading systems in the financial markets, but also the vendors of the various components of those systems.

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This report examines the adoption of open source database software to date and explores what barriers the open source vendors have to overcome to mount a meaningful long-term challenge to the big three. The report also assesses the response of the incumbent vendors to the open source challenge, and includes a survey assessing the attitudes toward open source and proprietary databases among executives responsible for the procurement of database management systems.

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This report contains an overview of how end users can bring about this change with guerilla application development, the technology and governance issues raised by this mode of application development, and an examination of data from a relevant survey of technology end users.

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The Tech M&A Banking Review 2007 ranks the top US M&A deal advisers in the tech sector for 2007. The core objective of the report is to help buyers and sellers identify financial advisers that have had experience with companies like theirs. The report draws on data from The 451 Group’s M&A KnowledgeBase, a database specialized to the technology and communications sectors. The KnowledgeBase tracks more than 16,000 transactions for more than 400 technology sectors. In addition to providing proprietary deal analysis and valuation data, this database enables industry professionals to identify advisers that have advised buyers or sellers in any of those sectors.

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In this report, The 451 Group analyzes the business and development opportunities and pitfalls that the GPLv3 presents, as well as which classes of companies are embracing it and which are, wisely, avoiding it.

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In this report, The 451 Group takes measure of the NAC industry by looking at its history, at how it has evolved in the past five years, and at some of the forces that will transform the market for access control products in the months to come.

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This report analyzes survey data to uncover what's really going on in the much-hyped world of social software, or 'enterprise 2.0.' It uncovers important trends about what types of enterprises are really investing in blogs, wikis and social networking technologies today, and for what kinds of initiatives. It also finds strong vendor preferences among enterprise users, even though the market is still immature. Findings are analyzed with a specific focus on vendors, investors and IT buying organizations.

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The M&A Outlook 2008 Report combines The 451 Group’s proprietary M&A data with analyst insight in order to provide bankers, investors and executives with a view of the likely year ahead in technology M&A. The report synthesizes the views of more than 30 analysts from The 451 Group and Tier1 Research who have spent the past year covering hundreds of transactions by key acquirers.

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The 451 Reviews and Previews Report provide in-depth views on what The 451 Group believes to be the main drivers in enterprise IT and communications. These views have been grouped topically in order to provide a comprehensive view of major trends and their impact across sectors from one year to the next.

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This report provides analysis of changes in market share among CDN service providers and offers detailed discussion and analysis of important trends and developments that were driving the CDN services sector, as well as insight into where this market is going. This issue will also address the issue of how CDNs price services, and the correlation between service differentiation and pricing power.

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In this report, The 451 Group analyzes 10 sometimes competing ways to manage virtual machines. The 451 Group surveys the public companies active in the virtualization space and identifies gaps in their portfolios, and then investigates 50 startups, suggesting which ones might fill the acquirers' portfolio gaps. 451 analysts also take the opportunity to make predictions about the direction of the industry over the next 12-18 months.

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This report includes an updated assessment of deployment maturity, drivers, challenges and technology trends at 19 major investment banks and insurers in terms of the 451 ECS evolution roadmap. The report examines how grids are being used to support – or are being combined with – utility models, virtualization, open source and SOA to create next-generation enterprise computing strategies. It builds on The 451 Group’s previous work with early adopters in financial services, providing an aggregated view, examined from, but not limited to, a grid-centric perspective. It provides marketplace intelligence and analysis to assist end users, vendors and investors as they navigate this complex topic.

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This report explores the challenges and conditions that must be met in order for open source software and its vendors to succeed in the SMB market. In addition to providing guidance for SMBs contemplating open source, it also examines the future trends and opportunities taking shape for open source in this very different market.

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This is the first report in the T1R Content Delivery Network Services Quarterly Series – a series designed to provide timely analysis and perspective on key technology trends and marketplace developments in the CDN services marketplace. This report recaps the key events of the quarter and assesses their impact. It provides analysis of changes in market share and offers detailed discussion and analysis of important trends and developments that were driving the CDN services sector, as well as insight into where this market is going.

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This report is about energy efficiency – of IT equipment, IT operations and, ultimately, of all organizations that use IT extensively. It is the firm belief of The 451 Group that energy efficiency – for financial, environmental and availability reasons – is heading toward the top of the IT agenda and will remain there for many years.

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This report explores new directions for transaction security technologies. It defines the business issues pushing enterprises toward broader adoption of transaction security technologies, the subsectors within the emerging transaction security market, the problems each class of technology hopes to solve and how the technology addresses the problem. It provides anoverview of enterprise IAM as it currently stands, and how it will look in the next 18 months.

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This report examines the impact of open source on the systems management software segment. More specifically, it examines the future of open source systems management and the impact on traditional software vendors and end users. The focus of this report is the emergence of a number of open source systems management vendors and the disruptive impact they may have on proprietary systems management vendors. The report reviews the existing open source systems management players and clearly articulates the similarities and differences among offerings. It also explores the noncommercial angle and leading open source systems management projects that are being rapidly adopted in the enterprise.

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This report focuses on de-duplication in its various forms and sets out to bring some much-needed clarity to the market landscape. It provides an explanation of the widely different technology approaches, analyzing the relative merits of each and their applicability to different market segments. It identifies which of the startups have truly innovative technological approaches and takes an in-depth look at the market opportunities across a wide range of end users. It also provides the results of a comprehensive enterprise IT end-user survey about the perception, application and results of de-duplication implementation. Finally, it takes a close look at how this market will evolve from the technology and vendor perspectives, including analysis of previous and future M&A activity, pending IPOs and potential new market entrants.

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This report analyzes the status of grid activity at healthcare companies and assesses when and how they could move beyond initial high-performance computing applications. It highlights the leading examples of grid usage across this sector, and looks at the scope of activities in areas such as virtualization and service-oriented architecture (SOA) that are under way.

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This report aims to examine the state of the art in desktop and application virtualization technology. It provides a taxonomy of approaches to desktop and application virtualization – split into six subcategories and embodied as a periodic table of application virtualization methods. It conducts a gap analysis of the market with a view to future M&A activity, looking at holes in the portfolios of likely acquirers and where privately held companies might fill those holes.

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The 451 Group believes that over the next 12-24 months, the mobile office market will converge and, aside from RIM and a small number of overall survivors, will cease to be a significant center of mobile activity. The golden goose has fled (or is fleeing) the scene here, at least for the pure plays. This report takes a close look at the vendors in the mobile office market and at what enterprise users themselves are thinking in terms of how this market will continue to develop, as well as what factors are driving deployment.

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This report examines the trend of proprietary software vendors 'going open.' It pays particular attention to those software vendors in transition that have made, or are in the process of making, a major business-model shift toward open source, and away from their proprietary, licensed software roots. The report attempts to capture the process of going open by looking at these software vendors, examining their own experiences and best practices.

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This report provides a 'state of the market' look at enterprise grid computing, and the evolution of grid computing and deployment dynamics across different vertical industries (including finance, manufacturing, retail and pharmaceuticals). The 451 Group has interviewed more than 200 commercial users of grids, and this report analyzes what these users are doing and where they are going with the technology.

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Enterprises are looking into a fire hose of data as they attempt to monitor and react to security threats. Every application and piece of network gear contributes to the flood of security event data. An entire industry has sprung up to support security analysts lost in this overwhelming data flow. This report takes an in-depth look at the source of the problem, which begins with the proliferation of log data from the likes of firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs), intrusion-prevention systems (IPS), intrusion-detection systems (IDS) and anti-malware. It then looks at the technologies and products offered to relieve the strain.

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Server virtualization is transforming datacenter management by breaking the one-on-one relationship between applications and servers. It sits above the bare metal and beneath the operating system and 451 analysts believe that whoever dominates server virtualization will control this critical interface. The technology is becoming a major M&A driver as traditional hardware, operating systems and management vendors scramble to accommodate it. This 451 Special Report has three goals: To describe the state of the art in server virtualization technology and to forecast its future; to analyze gaps in the portfolios of large vendors that 451 analysts believe are likely to make acquisitions around server virtualization; and to provide a taxonomy of smaller bootstrapped and venture-backed private companies that might make attractive targets.

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This report discusses how grid technology is actually being used by companies in the high tech sector for a range of tasks and applications, including R&D, product development, collaboration, data sharing, operations, enterprise applications and creation of reference sites. It examines how vendors' claims that grid computing is 'enterprise ready' are reflected in their own use of grids. To what extent are they practicing what they preach – which approaches have worked, and which haven't?

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This 451 CAOS report is a practical guide for understanding and calculating the financial benefits of open source in enterprise IT projects. This report was written for the IT manager or architect, who, often with no background in accounting, is tasked with building a financial analysis for a proposed open source initiative. It includes an introduction to the basics of financial analysis as they relate to the open source adoption process, and a tool to help identify and capture the costs (and potential benefits) for adopting an open source project.

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The 451 Group is predicting a sustained shift in the way that geographically distributed enterprises design their application infrastructure over the next few years. In particular, a variety of demographic, commercial and workplace trends will drive consolidation of server resources, with the resources moving away from dispersed branch offices and into centralized datacenters. 451 analysts believe this move will impact many areas of system design and purchasing, but the effect will be especially felt by those managing and building wide area networks (WANs) designed to connect dispersed users with the applications they need to access. This will lead to the increased adoption of a class of devices that 451 analysts call network-based application accelerators. This 451 Special Report sets out to clear up some of the confusion currently muddying the market and to chart future trends, with their associated commercial opportunities and threats.

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This report profiles a range of organizations representing global economic interests, from the 'oil majors' to national energy and IT utility providers. It analyzes the status of grid activity at leading oil and gas companies, and assesses when and how they could move beyond high-performance computing applications. It also examines grid activity among electricity and gas utilities, and their future plans. In addition, this report compares the deployment experience in the pharmaceutical industry with that of the oil and gas companies, since the two sectors seem to have many commonalities.

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This report explores the open source stack provider market and examines its relative value. It also explores the relationships that exist between stack providers, open source software vendors, systems integrators and end users, answering the question, "Is there truly a demand for a 'single throat to choke' in the market?"

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This report examines the nature and extent of grid-enablement among enterprise software applications, including those supplied on a commercial basis by ISVs and those developed internally by early adopters and their partners. The report explores how new kinds of middleware are being used to enable existing applications to run on a grid infrastructure. It also examines how effective the vendors are in meeting both technical and operational requirements, and what the unmet needs of early adopters are.

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The 451 Group believes that the traditional IT enterprise data protection model is undergoing significant structural changes as three emerging software technologies - data reduction, virtual tape libraries (VTLs) and continuous data protection (CDP) - drive a shift to next-generation data protection (NGDP) in the storage sector. The structural changes present opportunities for a crop of young startups, which are moving quickly into the market with these technologies, and for incumbent vendors as they look to maintain their position in the marketplace and defend against large and small competitors. This 451 Special Report sets out to demystify the various NGDP tools being readied for the market, and it analyzes the market opportunity. It provides in-depth competitive assessments of more than 30 vendors in this market, along with lucid descriptions of how the technology works and its inherent shortcomings.

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This report offers an opportunity to revisit the investment banks analyzed in the earlier report, and to broaden the scope of the research to include retail banks, insurers and stock exchanges. More than 20 users are profiled in depth, along with overviews and tables showing grid deployments at other large financial institutions. The report also analyzes 10 grid vendors and financial ISVs serving this market. Users are compared, and key recommendations and conclusions are provided for both users and vendors.

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This report provides an overview of manufacturers' use of grids, as well as their main obstacles to wider deployments. It profiles 14 early adopters across the automotive, aerospace and general manufacturing segments and analyzes their deployments, experiences and future plans. It also analyzes the approaches and strategies of 10 of the main grid vendors and ISVs targeting the manufacturing sector.

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The 451 Group believes that a number of simultaneous enterprise IT industry trends point to a major shift away from the desktop-bound worker toward a fully wireless and always-connected mobile knowledge worker. Mobile-enabled laptops are becoming cheaper, wireless networks are becoming faster and more ubiquitous, and the suite of software needed to securely connect the mobile worker with the office, on the go, is rapidly solidifying. This 451 Special Report maps out how vendors in the new mobile enterprise value chain are likely to find success within this emerging (and rapidly growing) market opportunity – in many cases, serving as a disruptive force in the way emerging mobile-enabled enterprises will operate over the next 18-36 months.

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The 451 Group believes that enterprise software vendors can no longer afford to ignore open source. It is a powerful force of change with both upside and downside potential. In the worst-case scenario, open source can do severe damage – to licensing schemes and to legal definitions of intellectual property – if used improperly. The potential benefits, however, are also massive – making it important to clearly understand the critical path to finding upside in the commercial adoption of open source.

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This report examines the offerings and strategies of key IT vendors – including their pricing, metering and management mechanisms. It also looks at the various approaches they are taking to help enterprises overcome the challenges and barriers they face in successfully implementing managed utility services within their organizations. In addition, the report assesses, from the early adopters' point of view, what their needs are and whether they are indeed getting a 'utility' service. It highlights the experiences of organizations that are deploying managed services using grids, their willingness to use outsourced services, and the obstacles and challenges they face with utility computing offerings, as well as their expected future usage.

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This report analyzes the adoption and deployment of grid computing in the digital media industry for creation and distribution. It highlights the approaches of nine enterprise organizations in the media sector in deploying grid computing technology, their willingness to use outsourced rendering services, key obstacles and challenges they face, and the expected future usage of grids in this sector. The report also looks at nine technology vendors, outlining the various approaches they are taking to help companies in this sector overcome the challenges and barriers they face in successfully implementing grid computing technology within their enterprise organizations.

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This report examines the challenges and the possible solutions in managing data on grids – from the perspectives of both the end user and the technology vendor. It analyzes the approaches of seven enterprise organizations – companies that have often needed to rely on their own in-house capabilities to successfully manage data on grids. It also looks at 28 technology vendors and provides a table outlining the various approaches they have taken to providing data management capabilities to their customers.

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The 451 Group believes that enabling text-aware application intelligence is a key forthcoming battleground for software vendors in a variety of market segments. These vendors include those that explicitly focus on unstructured data analysis as well as search, database, business intelligence and business application suite vendors. This 451 Special Report points to how the dominant application vendors, particularly those that supply business intelligence and customer-facing applications, are facing a critical period of opportunity and competition.

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This report analyzes the adoption of grid technology in the pharmaceutical sector. It examines the current and future strategies of 11 pharmaceutical and biotech firms, including four of the global top 10. The report also analyzes the approach and strategies of 10 vendors, from the industry giants to the drug discovery software firms.

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This report analyzes the impact of software licensing in terms of slowing down grid deployments, and it examines the strategies of ISVs in response to this challenge. There is a major disconnect between the experiences of users and the claims of vendors, and the report analyzes the likely developments in software licensing. It includes nine user case studies, plus detailed comparisons of user experiences and views on the licensing issue. The report also analyzes the strategies and positioning of more than 20 vendors, from grid computing companies to license management, EDA, BI and ETL firms, as well as other major software vendors.

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The 451 Group believes the speech technology market is at a key turning point, where fundamental changes – both in terms of the value proposition and the horizontal technology stack – must occur in the marketplace if future growth is to be supported. This 451 Special Report, by presenting and analyzing three potential scenarios for marketplace direction, provides insight into the competitive opportunities and challenges for vendor companies within speech technologies, as well as the subsequent positioning, investment opportunities and marketplace M&A that will ensue.

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This report analyzes current grid deployments in the financial services sector, the future requirements of grid users in the space and the anticipated levels of adoption. The report focuses mainly on the investment banking sector, which is leading the charge to grid computing in financial services. Banks, especially investment banks, are notoriously reluctant to discuss IT projects. Nevertheless, the report includes 11 case studies and an overview of additional grid computing activities among retail banks and insurers. The report also analyzes the strategies and positioning of six major suppliers and five ISVs, as well as providing an overview of ISV activity in the financial services sector.

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The 451 Group, which produced a 451 Special Report on the first wave of storage virtualization in 2001, now believes the second wave of virtualization is carrying the storage industry. Unlike the first wave, which was focused on simple block-level virtualization, there is more substance and sustainability than hype this time around. This 451 Special Report identifies the most compelling segments of technology development and competition in the second wave of storage virtualization, and provides competitive assessments of key vendors within these segments.

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This report analyzes the current status and future opportunities – both internal and external – for grid computing in the telecommunications sector. Although telcos are typically reluctant to disclose their plans, this report includes in-depth profiles of seven of them. Five are based in Europe, where telcos are leading the adoption of grid computing through projects that range from billing systems to becoming grid resource brokers. Five computer systems vendors are also profiled in order to assess their activities and strategies in meeting the needs of this potentially highly lucrative market sector.

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This report analyzes a key challenge to the acceleration of grid technology adoption: how to prove long-term value and measure the economic benefits. The 451 Group has interviewed eight tier one grid users in depth about their approach. Each provides details of the hard and soft benefits of the deployments and overall financial considerations, together with the scope and challenges of the implementation. The 451 Group also interviewed seven leading vendors to identify what strategies and instruments are being deployed by vendors seeking to persuade users of the benefits of grid technology. We compare these different approaches and analyze whether they are meeting the needs of users – determining what's working and what's not.

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The 451 Group believes that the next 18 months will see a rapid convergence of application and network management technologies – leading to $3-4bn in M&A activity over that period as the network and systems management framework vendors move into monitoring applications. This 451 Special Report, identifies the most compelling segments of convergence activity and provides competitive assessments of a cross section of key vendors within these segments.

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The 451 Group believes that 2004 will be a key development year for enterprise IT products and services built around information lifecycle management (ILM) technologies. This 451 Special Report focuses on the competitive opportunities and challenges for vendor companies within ILM, as well as the subsequent positioning, investment opportunities and marketplace M&A that will ensue.

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This 451 Special Report tackles the issue of what happened to the enterprise mobile revolution. It highlights the next 18 months as a critical partnering and acquisition period for vendors and shows how enterprise mobile-related M&A is set to grow beyond the $83m reported for 2003.

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The next 18 months will be a critical period of market development for grid computing technologies. Over this period, the commercial viability of the technology will mature and early-adopter customers will give way to broader adaptation of grids for enterprise applications both at single-site and multisite installations. The nature of competition will also mature as vendors integrate grid computing technologies into existing offerings and strategies ranging from utility computing to Web services.

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The 451 Group believes there is a fundamental marketplace synapse in the arena of CRM analytics — with supply and demand factors fundamentally out of sync. Some of the greatest culprits are the business intelligence (BI) vendors, which have been happy to provide analytics that are well behind the best of breed; meanwhile, the best-of-breed suppliers are typically too small and require too much integration to really succeed.

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Enterprise storage used to exist in a relatively fixed, centralized and controlled environment where physical security, access controls and known administrative entities satisfied requirements for management due diligence. The rise of networked storage has left the security industry behind.

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The move from voice-centric mobile devices with some data capabilities to data-centric devices with voice integration is under way. This market transition represents a major opportunity for the large software players to utilize their knowledge of the data application market and extend their power and influence into a new generation of mobile data services.

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Managing unstructured data is a problem that has been around for as long as people have been using computers to write letters and send email. But many companies may not be aware that they even have a problem, or may think it is an insurmountable one. Unstructured data is four times larger in volume than structured data, yet little effort is spent in managing and analyzing it. The 451 Group is pleased to announce the publication of the first extensive report on the UDM market. The report provides a comprehensive view of the market and its future direction, including strategic assessments of competitors - the major players, new market entrants, a group of players to watch and future market development.

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Even in the face of declining IT budgets, storage expenditure is increasing. The cost of storage management is far outstripping the storage hardware element. The ultimate aim is to treat storage as a utility - and storage resource management (SRM) is the first step toward this. The 451 Group defines and segments this market, providing analysis of the main companies and leading startups, and offers SWOT analysis and a look at future developments for each segment. The report provides actionable conclusions for companies, from whichever part of the value chain, to be winners in this market.

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No one has really begun to evaluate the competitive landscape or potential in the fragmented market for managing distributed applications. Over the past few months, a new breed of software and application management startups has emerged to target this market. Meanwhile, more established players are shifting their strategies and extending existing software technologies.

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No one in the IT industry doubts the importance of Web services, but no one is too sure what they really are, or how they will impact existing services. The 451 Group has produced a taxonomy of the market, something we believe has yet to be provided by an independent analyst firm. We also analyze in depth what companies are actually offering, and are planning to offer, as Web services.

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US cable operators plan to adopt the interactive television platform standard, DVB MHP. This dramatic news for the cable and interactive television markets could provide a great jump start to the industry. And while it is a significant endorsement of Java, it is also a major headache for Microsoft and others who have supported alternate technologies for the iTV market.

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The server industry stands on the threshold of a major architectural shift. Blade server companies, strongly funded by Wall Street, are taking advantage of the inadequacies of current server designs with a new approach that poses a real threat to the industry giants. The more farsighted of the major IT vendors are making blade servers a centerpiece of their strategy for 2002.

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Storage virtualization is one of the hottest areas in IT today. While investors have spurned most of the technology market, they have continued to invest heavily in this segment. Why? The need for storage is rising exponentially, and storage virtualization allows users to cut costs and increase flexibility. Put simply, storage virtualization separates the representation of storage to the server operating system from actual physical storage.

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