Author: Brian Dooley The Enterprise Personal Cloud is a key component of the re-engineered IT vision we have referred to as the Boundary Free Enterprise™.  As yet, the Personal Cloud is poorly understood, and has been considered mainly as an enhance ...

Author: Brian Dooley Enabled and driven by the Boundary-free Enterprise™, we are entering the age of the virtual workforce, in which increasing varieties of jobs can be accomplished by telecommuting, from remote offices, or even on the road. This Strateg ...

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 Saugatuck’s ongoing surveys and discussions with users and vendors continue to highlight the increasing popularity of Cloud IT. Further, it is clear that Private Clouds are being implemented by enterprises for reasons ranging from c ...

Author: Charlie Burns Popularity and adoption of Cloud-based solutions continues to expand. And, Saugatuck’s ongoing research in the form of surveys and discussions with users and vendors continues to show that Private Clouds are being implemented by ent ...

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: Charlie Burns Adoption of virtualization for traditional Intel and Windows based IT infrastructures continues to expand as vendors increase their focus in small and medium sized enterprises. However, the benefits of virtualization do not come wit ...

Authors: Bill McNee and Bruce Guptill VMware’s announced acquisition of virtual machine management SaaS provider Shavlik Technologies early this week has been seen by many as a relatively minor news item. Saugatuck see it as an indication of how SMBs hav ...

Author: Charlie Burns For several years, virtualization of desktop systems has been characterized by IT industry media, pundits, and some IT vendors such as Citrix, Microsoft, Parallels, and VMware, as providing multiple benefits ranging from reduced cos ...

Author: Charlie Burns Seeking one or more of the potential benefits, such as increased security or reduced support costs, IT organizations are placing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) on their “To Do” lists. However, these same IT organizations are f ...

Author: Charlie Burns User IT organizations are being challenged on multiple fronts including implementing Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA), and integrating and managing new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) workloads. Simultaneously, user IT management is ...

Authors: Charlie Burns, Bruce Guptill, Mark Koenig On 21 February, 2008, Microsoft made a much publicized announcement of “a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices to increase the openness of its products and drive greater ...

Author: Charlie Burns Founded in 2000, Transitive Corp. provides unique capabilities for migrating applications from one platform to another without modifications and despite hardware and operating system incompatibilities. (See Figure 1 for additional c ...

Authors: Charlie Burns, Bruce Guptill Virtualization of several key aspects of IT – servers, mainframes, storage, networking, and more – is rampant and growing because it delivers significant cost improvements over most existing IT implementations. But v ...

Author: Charlie Burns User IT organizations are simultaneously being driven to reduce costs and to support increasingly dynamic and agile business processes. As a result, IT organizations are increasingly adopting one or more fundamental changes such as ...

Authors: Charlie Burns, Mike West, Bill McNee In our continuing thread of research providing guidance to application ISVs transitioning to SaaS, Saugatuck has repeatedly been asked about the viability of leveraging virtualization technologies, so that th ...

Author: Charlie Burns Over the past month or more, several major vendors (e.g., Oracle, Sun, VMware, XenSource) have announced products or services focused on IT infrastructure virtualization. Not surprisingly, virtualization is rapidly becoming a prime ...

Author: Charlie Burns IT management was viewed as an arcane art somewhere between esoteric science and mysticism. This resulted from the state-of-the-art of data processing technology which demanded a pathologic focus on the components and infrastructure ...