The 451 Group launched the 451 Grid Adoption Research Service (GARS) – an investigation into user experiences and vendor strategies – in August 2004 to extend the company's nearly three years of proven expertise in analyzing the grid technology market.

This new service analyzes the track record as commercial enterprise users introduce grid technologies to their core IT operations, and it examines the effectiveness of the strategies of vendor companies whose technologies early adopters are deploying.

In doing so, it provides:

• Frontline intelligence on customer/adoption issues and market dynamics, including budgeting, approval, organizational challenges, technical concerns, implementation lifecycle and vendor support
• Deeper and more granular research on technology issues and requirements, from the perspectives of both early-adopter end users and IT vendors
• End-user adoption perspectives on operational requirements in specific industries – comparing implementation experiences with how vendors are positioning current products and developing future roadmaps (i.e., what's working and what's not, where there's an opportunity and where there's not).

451 GARS extends The 451 Group's capabilities by providing an assessment of customer demand, looking at the opportunities and challenges facing early adopters and covering adoption within key industries. It also presents the unique opportunities and challenges in specific vertical market segments.

Deliverables

On an annual basis, 451 GARS provides regular updates to vendors on early-adopter customer dynamics, analyzed from the dual perspectives of specific vertical industries and horizontal issues that all grid early adopters are facing.

Roughly ten in-depth reports (many exceeding 60 pages) are issued annually, from two differing perspectives:

• Half of the reports focus on a specific horizontal issue facing early adopters.
• The other half concentrate on individual vertical markets where grids are being deployed, exploring the themes that are common to users in these industries.

Released reports include:

• Report One: Grid Computing – Where is the Value? (August 2004)
• Report Two: Grid Computing – The Telco Opportunity (October 2004)
• Report Three: Grid Computing – The Financial Services Opportunity (December 2004)
• Report Four: Grid Computing – The Impact of Software Licensing (March 2005)
• Report Five: Grid Computing – Adoption in the Pharmaceutical Sector (June 2005)
• Report Six: Grid Computing – Managing Data on Grids (August 2005)
• Report Seven: Grid Computing – Adoption for Digital Media Creation and Distribution (September 2005)
• Report Eight: Grid Computing – Where Are We With Utility Computing? (November 2005)
• Report Nine: Grid Computing – Adoption in the Manufacturing Sector (January 2006).

Upcoming reports include:

• Grid enablement
• Vertical market – Financial services, part two
• Vertical market – Healthcare
• Successful grid deployments - Vertical market comparison
• Role of public money
• Four 'A' requirements – authentication, authorization, auditing and accounting
• Vertical market – Electronics
• Impact on process, workflow, management and automation

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