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ICE Research Team  

Research director:
Rachel Chalmers

Principal analyst:
William Fellows

Research Director, Systems:
John Abbott

Research Director, Financial Markets & Head of EU Research:
John Barr

Senior Analysts:
Dennis Callaghan
Jay Lyman

Analyst:
Karin Kelley



About ICE

Infrastructure Computing for the Enterprise (ICE) draws together our analytical focus on topics like virtualization, datacenter automation, grid and high-performance computing, application lifecycle management, performance management, service-level management and service-oriented architecture.

ICE takes a 360-degree view of disruptive technologies; we analyze:

  • The activities of vendors bringing products to market, especially startups
  • The needs and experiences of enterprise end users
  • Factors and considerations influencing funding and M&A.

Core Components

  • 451 ICE Reports: a judicious mix of very granular long-form reports and more succinct position papers
  • 451 ICE Analyst Access: interaction with 451 infrastructure analysts, led by Rachel Chalmers
  • 451 Cloud Cover: a blog offering early-warning radar of disruptive change in enterprise infrastructure computing.
  • 451 ICE Summit: regular events exploring top issues in infrastructure.


Recent ICE reports:

The Age of Exascale
Sep 2011 - Buy - Exec. Summary

The Coming PaaS World War
Jul 2011 - Buy - Exec. Summary

The Application Bazaar
Jun 2011 - Buy - Exec. Summary

The Big Four Hypervisors and Their Ecosystems
Apr 2011 - Buy - Exec. Summary

The Big Four and the Cloud
Dec 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Desktops as a Service
Nov 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

The Rise of Devops
Sep 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Innovations in HPC Applications
Sep 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

The Searchable Organization
Aug 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Virtualized Desktops Grow Up: Mapping the Intersection of Management and Security
Jul 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Fast, Cheap and In Control: The Next Generation of Graphics Remoting Protocols
Jun 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

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

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

Innovations in HPC
Mar 2010 - Buy - Exec. Summary

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

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

Colocation and the Art of Rapid-Execution Trading
Oct 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Application Virtualization: The Next Generation
Oct 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

User Virtualization
Jul 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Break Point – Virtualization and Availability
May 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Desktop Virtualization: Server, Client and Cloud
May 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Latency Capture, Storage and Analysis in Financial Markets
Apr 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

From SOA to SaaS
Mar 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

The Sky's the Limit
Mar 2009 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Virtually Secure
Dec 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Credit Crunch
Dec 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Virtually Automatic
Nov 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Financial Messaging
Oct 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

The Missed Promise of SOA
Oct 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Virtual Lab Automation
Sep 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Virtualization: Reinventing desktop computing
Jul 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Partly Cloudy - Blue-Sky Thinking About Cloud Computing
Jun 2008 - Exec. Summary

Low Latency – Time is Money
May 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Power to the People
Feb 2008 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Virtualization: Managing the virtual revolution
Dec 2007 - Buy - Exec. Summary

ECS: Financial Services Industry - This gig is bigger than grids - from HPC to service
Nov 2007 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Fifteen: Grid computing – Adoption in the healthcare market
Jun 2007 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Virtualization II: Desktops and applications are next
Jun 2007 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Fourteen: Grid Computing – The State of the Market
Jan 2007 - Buy - Exec. Summary

‘V’ for Virtualization: Transforming the datacenter, driving M&A
Dec 2006 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Thirteen: Grid Computing – Adoption in the High Tech Sector
Nov 2006 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Twelve: Grid Computing – Adoption in the Energy Sector
Sep 2006 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Eleven: Grid Computing – Enabling Applications for Grid Deployment
Jun 2006 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Ten: Grid Computing – Adoption in the Financial Sector
Apr 2006 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Nine: Grid Computing – Adoption in the Manufacturing Sector
Jan 2006 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Eight: Grid Computing – Where Are We with Utility Computing?
Dec 2005 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Seven: Grid Computing – Adoption for Digital Media Creation and Distribution
Oct 2005 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Six: Grid Computing – Managing Data on Grids
Aug 2005 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Five: Grid Computing – Adoption in the Pharmaceutical Sector
Jun 2005 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Four: Grid Computing – The Impact of Software Licensing
Mar 2005 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Three: Grid Computing – The Financial Services Opportunity
Dec 2004 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report Two: Grid Computing – The Telco Opportunity
Oct 2004 - Buy - Exec. Summary

Report One: Grid Computing – Where is the Value?
Aug 2004 - Buy - Exec. Summary

More >>

Upcoming ICE reports

Desktops as a Service
Dec 2011

Related ICE Research

A Blue Coat made to measure for Thoma Bravo

Public since 1999, Blue Coat is responding to the down market by taking itself private with the help of PE firm Thoma Bravo. It's a move with some good opportunities in store.

TDM / Deal Analysis, 9 Dec 2011

Wendy Nather, Eric Hanselman, Brenon Daly

Fujitsu ties its cloud into Azure as a hybrid offering

The company is taking advantage of its leadoff position with Azure and bringing hybrid IaaS/PaaS cloud services to market with a range of deployment and service-delivery models.

MIS / Market Development, 9 Dec 2011

William Fellows

Azul completes move to pure software model with Zing 5.0 Java runtime for Linux

Best known for its multicore Java appliances, VC-funded Azul will now focus its efforts on Zing 5.0, a hardware-assisted Java runtime platform that will help support enterprise J2EE applications on private and hybrid clouds.

MIS / Impact Report, 9 Dec 2011

John Abbott

Can AMD's Fusion beat Intel's MIC in high-performance computing?

AMD's 12-core Interlagos processor has started to make an impact on HPC platforms, while the vendor's Fusion APU (integrated multicore processors and GPU) is just getting started.

MIS / Market Development, 8 Dec 2011

John Barr

NVIDIA heads for exascale

At the recent SC11 supercomputing conference, NVIDIA's CEO talked about the challenges the industry faces in designing exascale systems, and a number of announcements were made that demonstrate that NVIDIA is serious about supercomputing.

MIS / Market Development, 7 Dec 2011

John Barr

Adapteva believes high-performance computing is ready for an Epiphany

The startup's first approach was to focus on low-power-consuming processors and energy efficiency, but it is a technology approach that is a great fit for the needs of today's high-performance computers.

MIS / Market Development, 6 Dec 2011

John Barr

A flurry of deals around application compatibility testing brings migration to the fore

October saw Quest take out ChangeBASE only days before Citrix announced its acquisition of App-DNA. Windows application compatibility testing and migration forms the rationale for both deals. Who's next?

TDM / Sector IQ, 6 Dec 2011

Rachel Chalmers

Progress adds rules engine to RPM offerings with Corticon buy

With the purchase of the business rules engine software vendor, Progress adds a business rules engine to its Responsive Process Management suite.

TDM / Deal Analysis, 5 Dec 2011

Dennis Callaghan, Ben Kolada

CloudLinux grows customers, partners for cloud control-panel play

The company has leveraged service provider demand for Linux not being met by the enterprise players, but where does it stand now that large Linux vendors are competing for these customers and the cloud?

MIS / Market Development, 5 Dec 2011

Jay Lyman

Are these the days of Intel's 'Knights?'

Intel has reorganized to better support high-performance computing; it demonstrated its 64-core Knights Corner many-core processor at the recent SC11 supercomputing conference.

MIS / Market Development, 2 Dec 2011

John Barr

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