Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mike West, Alex Bakker and Bill McNee After weeks of marketplace speculation, Dell Inc. has formally announced its intention to buy back its outstanding shares and privatize the company for approximately $24.4B. The move will take ...

Author: Alex Bakker Hand-in-hand with the Consumerization of IT is the rise of “Bring-Your-Own-Technology” (BYOT). We are using this term, rather than the popular BYOD, as it is not just about mobile devices, but also personal applications, clouds, servi ...

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: Alex Bakker Looking back, 2012 was a year of maturation and development for Social Business IT that saw most ESN vendors evolving their offerings. At the beginning of 2012 we offered our predictions on what would be the driving forces in the evol ...

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: Bruce Guptill This week, Saugatuck Technology hosted its annual Cloud Business Summit in New York City. The invitation-only event featured panels and close discussions with large enterprise CIOs and CTOs about their real-world experiences in enab ...

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: Mike West The move to the Boundary-free Enterprise™ and its enabling Master Architecture is impacting both the way business is being conducted, and the portfolio of technologies required to enable this change. On both sides of the proposition – o ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck Technology research among enterprise business and IT executives makes clear one of the most substantial and disruptive trends seen since the advent of the Web, email, and distributed computing: The pace of Cloud-driven b ...

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: Charlie Burns On Monday, 30 July, 2012, India’s Northern power grid failed and left over 320 million people without electrical power. Then Tuesday, 31 July, three of India’s power grids (the Northern, the Eastern, and the Northeastern) failed cau ...

Author: Alex Bakker Briefings and conversations with vendors and IT end users have highlighted a growing interest in leveraging Enterprise Social Networks and their APIs to provide additional, integrated data streams to their users. As their APIs and int ...

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 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: Alex Bakker SharePoint’s continued dominance in the enterprise was a key takeaway from last week’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference. On the top of mind for the conference attendees, focused on delivering or extracting value from Social and Collaboration ...

Author: Alex Bakker This year’s Enterprise 2.0 conference illustrated an emerging shift in the social software space from peripheral to core. Though the market is still in its infancy, with more proof of concepts than fully functional deployments, there ...