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 ...

Authors: Charlie Burns, Bruce Guptill Recently some indications have surfaced (see Note 1) that Cisco may enter the server market with offerings that include networking management and virtualization. (Please see Saugatuck Research Alert RA-552, “Cisco’s ...

Author: Charlie Burns User IT organizations are striving to reduce infrastructure costs while improving the IT’s responsiveness to their business users. Implementing one or more forms of infrastructure virtualization is one of today’s most popular approa ...

Authors: Charlie Burns, Bruce Guptill The possible entry by Cisco into server markets with offerings that include networking management and virtualization has prompted Saugatuck to assess the roles and challenges of vendors and users in a changing IT inf ...

Authors: Charlie Burns, Bruce Guptill On November 12, 2008, Sam Palmisano, IBM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, spoke at the 2008 Business Leadership Forum in Istanbul, Turkey. His remarks focused on a concept termed the “Smarter Planet.” Palmisano ...

Authors: Charlie Burns, Bruce Guptill, Mike West On October 27, 2008 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft announced Windows Azure and the Azure Service Platform. Microsoft introduced Azure as the foundation for delivering t ...

Authors: Charlie Burns, Mark Koenig On October 20, 2008, Bluewolf, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) consulting company, announced an expanded Integration-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering. Bluewolf claims its new offering, dubbed “Integrator,” is the only solut ...

Author: Charlie Burns On September 10-11, 2008, Citrix hosted an analyst event in Phoenix. Company executives presented information on corporate direction, business strategy, technology strategy, and associated products, channel and alliance efforts. The ...

Authors: Charlie Burns, Mike West, Bruce Guptill Saugatuck’s ongoing research into the evolution of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and the emergence of Cloud Computing offerings has yielded a number of insights into the challenges confronting the early ado ...