Author: Charlie Burns Recently Saugatuck observed that with its increasing popularity, Cloud IT is likely to become the third nearly-universal infrastructure architecture. The preceding two, the centralized / mainframe architecture and the decentralized ...

Author: Charlie Burns Since the early 1950s when commercial businesses began using programmable computers, there have been only two nearly-universally adopted infrastructure architectures. The centralized / mainframe architecture dominated until the earl ...

Author: Brian Dooley Enterprise resilience continues to grow in importance, as demonstrated by recent events surrounding Hurricane Sandy. Resilience links concepts of risk management, disaster recovery, GRC, and agility to create a pathway through the th ...

Author: Charlie Burns Saugatuck’s ongoing discussions with both user and vendor clients clearly continue to indicate that enterprises are increasingly implementing the fundamental building blocks of the Boundary-free Enterprise™. Not surprisingly, the tr ...

Author: Bruce Guptill On Monday, July 2 2012, Dell Computer announced its planned purchase of Quest Software for $2.4 billion. Quest had been reported in talks with several potential buyers since at least the first quarter of this year. In its announce ...

Authors: Mike West, Bruce Guptill There is no shortage today of models for positioning and considering IT providers. Some are very well-known and widely used. Most map a provider’s vision against its perceived ability to execute upon that vision. This ...

Author: Mike West Today’s business environment has evolved to rely heavily on data, information and knowledge to accomplish its strategic goals. More easily available data has created a highly leveraged situation in which business success depends on data ...

Author: Mike West Saugatuck has studied the Windows Azure platform in depth over the past 24 months and, based on this research, Saugatuck has found that the Windows Azure platform provides migrating ISVs with a highly-productive, robust and potentially ...

Author: Mike West In 2010, Microsoft launched the Windows Azure platform. Since then, Saugatuck has been actively tracking Windows Azure through regular Microsoft briefings, interviews with ISVs and with SIs that have migrated their solutions or workload ...

Author: Brian Dooley Recent natural disasters around the world have placed business recovery in high relief. At the same time, unified IT risk management and evolving ideas of Agility have come together to create a new concept of organizational resilienc ...

Author: Mike West Saugatuck has developed a framework to assist clients in envisioning and developing useful, relevant models for cost comparison/ROI assessment of Cloud-based solutions versus more traditional on-premises software deploy-ments. As with a ...

Author: Larry Perlstein Collaborative IT defines the universe of tools and infrastructure from email, file sharing, and web conferencing to products such as Salesforce.com’s Chatter and IBM’s LotusLive. Social Business IT is a segment of the Collaborativ ...

Author: Bill Kirwin Complexity is a key driver of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).  When applied to Cloud IT, complexity goes beyond hardware and software to include the organizational complexities of business process, culture and supply chain. It’s i ...

Author: Charlie Burns One of the best predictors of future IT costs and management requirements is a thorough understanding of the most important technology trends helping to shape a particular sector. Saugatuck has developed a vision of the major evolut ...

Authors: Alex Bakker, Bill Kirwin Enterprise Social Networks, Collaboration tools, and Big Data form the backbone of a new trend that Saugatuck has named the Quantified Enterprise™, or QE. This represents a look at a future where data-driven organization ...

Author: Bruce Guptill At least 80 percent of IT and business leaders indicate that their organizations have realized at least some business improvements through the use of Social Business IT. However, real-world quantification is not as forthcoming as is ...

Authors: Bill Kirwin, Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee Traditional IT Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a well recognized methodology for understanding and managing IT costs in on-premise environments. However, Cloud IT has arrived as a legitimate, attractive an ...

Author: Steve Kovsky Riding the coattails of Cloud-enabled applications that allow end-users and groups to access corporate networks and interact with colleagues, regardless of their physical location, mobilization is accelerating throughout the enterpri ...

Author: Charlie Burns and Alex Bakker This week Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced two service outages in facilities on different continents. Not surprisingly, there has been considerable media and analyst focus and hyperbole on the causes, durations, ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill and Steve Kovsky An often-overlooked weak link in IT security for large enterprises is the interconnection with smaller partners (SMBs) that often lack IT security resources and knowledge. Saugatuck believes that enterprise use of ...