Grids 2004: from rocket science to business service
The 451 Group believes there is substantial data pointing to acceleration in the grid computing market, with commercialization heading toward an inflection point. 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.
These findings are outlined in a 451 Special Report - Grids 2004: from rocket science to business service - which presents key opportunities and challenges associated with the evolution of grid computing over the next 18 months.
The 451 Group is pleased to present this 215-page report, which was written by John Abbott, chief analyst; Rachel Chalmers, analyst for grid management software and Web services interaction; and William Fellows, principal analyst for grid computing architectures and technologies.
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What does the report cover?
Grids 2004 is the first comprehensive look at the grid space from an industry-competitive perspective - examining how vendor companies and investors will realize return on grid technology investments and providing insight into the path to customer traction for grids. It includes significant analysis of M&A within this segment and profiles the competitive positioning of more than 30 grid vendors - ranging from established IT leaders to recent startups. It also includes case studies on three early-adopter grid customers - JP Morgan Chase, Butterfly.net and Charles Schwab.
The 451 Group's Grids 2004 report divides grid vendors into three primary categories, based on the firm's assessment of both current technology/product/service positioning and current momentum:
- Tier one grid vendors are leading IT vendors with strong established positions in grid computing or strong momentum and potential to capture market share; vendors in this category include HP, IBM, Microsoft and Sun.
- Tier two grid vendors are leading IT vendors with strong emerging strategies and/or technology portfolios in grid computing, but will not dominate overall grid revenues over the near term; vendors in this category include Computer Associates, Intel, Oracle, Platform Computing, SGI and Veritas.
- Pure-play grid vendors are emerging vendors with strong portfolios in specific areas, but must evolve - through rapid growth, investment or acquisition - to have a longer-term position in the marketplace. These companies are further categorized by functionality - grid enablement, file systems, provisioning, application decomposition, CPU scavengers and those offering enhancements to Globus; vendors in this category include Altair, Avaki, Axceleon, DataSynapse, Ejasent, Enigmatec, Entropia, GridFrastructure, GridIron, GridSystems, GridXpert, Powerllel, Tsunami Research, The Mind Electric and United Devices.
Additional vendors are also addressed.
Table of contents
Section 1 Executive summary, definition and methodology
Section 2 Key issues in grid computing
Section 3 Vendor opportunities and challenges
Section 4 The role of grid technologies for the CIO
Section 5 M&A
Section 6 Future development of grids
Section 7 Competitive assessments of tier one grid vendors
Section 8 Competitive assessments of tier two grid vendors
Section 9 Competitive assessments of pure-play grid vendors
Appendices Background on grids
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The Group is headquartered in New York, with staff in key regional locations, including San Francisco and Silicon Valley, the Boston/Route 128 area and London. For additional information on the Group or to apply for a client trial online, go to the firm's website: the451.com
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