Author: Charlie Burns IBM continues to invest heavily in technologies underlying and enabling the Boundary-free Enterprise™, with the most significant of these being Cloud, Mobility, Social, Analytics, and Integration. IBM’s focus on these technologies a ...

Author: Charlie Burns Adoption of Cloud IT offerings began, and mostly remains, based on the attraction of reduced infrastructure costs. However, ongoing conversations with users have shown that simply selecting a Cloud infrastructure offering does not e ...

Author: Charlie Burns Cloud-based IT infrastructure has become a legitimate, viable alternative to traditional on-premises IT infrastructure. While most IT executives perceive Cloud-based offerings as a means to reduce costs, experience is showing that C ...

Author: Charlie Burns On 15 February, Amazon announced broad availability and new partners for Redshift, a Cloud-based data warehouse offering. On 4 March, IBM announced that all of its cloud services will be based on an open source cloud architecture. A ...

Author: Charlie Burns Not surprisingly, ongoing discussions with Cloud users and providers indicate that the popularity of Cloud-based solutions continues to expand. However, the same discussions reveal the increasing incidence of enterprise IT organizat ...

Author: Mike West The Boundary-free Enterprise™ (BfE) enables delivery and use of information within business processes on demand, anyplace, anytime – but not without concomitant challenges to data management. Saugatuck see seven important trends within ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Charlie Burns One result of the continual consumerization of IT, including Mobility, BYOD, and Cloud, is that the Annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas often is an indicator of significant change or improvement in IT ...

Author: Mike West The twenty-three trends that we recently reported on for our weekly Research Alert readers will be among the most impactful currents in the stream of changes flowing into and through technology markets during 2013. This Strategic Perspe ...

Author: Mike West What are the opportunities for innovation and the management challenges presented by Collaboration, Social Nets and Mobility? We will explore this question at the 2012 Cloud Business Summit at the Westin Times Square in New York on Nove ...

Author: Mike West Today’s businesses are doing their work through a new Cloud-based array of time- and location-independent computing capabilities – Collaboration, Mobile, Social and Analytics – plus Integration services which together make the Boundary- ...

Author: Charlie Burns While the use of Cloud IT can, and does, reduce the per-user footprint of electrical production and consumption, recent media coverage calls into the question the overall efficiencies and “green-ness” of Cloud as it relates to power ...

Author: Charlie Burns Saugatuck’s ongoing primary research (e.g., surveys and discussions with users and providers) continues to show that Public Clouds are increasingly being adopted by enterprises for a range of application workloads. Further, the perc ...

Author: Charlie Burns Adoption of Cloud-based solutions continues to expand. And, Saugatuck’s ongoing primary research (e.g., surveys and discussions with users and vendors) continues to show that Public Clouds are being adopted by enterprises for a rang ...

Author: Mike West Saugatuck recently conducted an interview research program that took an in-depth look at how the Cloud is evolving. In Part 1 of this 2-part Strategic Perspective, we asked if these industry leaders could see change in what their custom ...

Author: Mike West ISVs are experiencing several, sometimes simultaneous waves of Cloud transition across portfolios that affect their development strategies and requirements. Interviews with industry thought leaders identify the most important technologi ...

Author: Charlie Burns On 23 July, 2012, VMware announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nicira, Inc., a pioneer in software-defined networking (SDN) and a leader in network virtualization for open source initiatives. Saugatuck views this ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Microsoft took some of the wraps off its newest version of Office this week, showing off its Cloud-related aspects and making it available for testing. While this is an important and necessary step for Microsoft, what was revealed i ...

Authors: Brian Dooley, Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee The concept of business analytics and BI has never been more popular than we see it today. Analyst and media coverage emphasize gains in operational stability and reductions in costs; providers emphas ...

Author: Mike West Earlier this year, Saugatuck Technology conducted a global survey of senior business and IT executives focused on preferences for deploying new business software / solutions 2012-2015 (see Note 1). Some of the findings were rather surpr ...

Author: Mike West Earlier this year, Saugatuck Technology conducted a global survey of senior business and IT executives focused on preferences for deploying new business software / solutions 2012-2015 (see Note 1). Some of the findings were rather surpr ...