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 RevX provides a comprehensive system for Cloud Computing and Software as a Service providers seeking a monetization solution that can be tailored to unique business and operating requirements. Its messaging-centric Service-Oriented Arch ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Google has taken the wraps of its Chrome OS. Google’s OS strategy is fundamentally different from previous OSes, including the Ubuntu Linux OS on which Chrome is partially based, and specifically targets netbooks with speed, simplic ...

Author: Bruce Guptill SOA been reported “dead” in recent media, analyst and blog reports. Confirming this, Saugatuck’s recent reader poll saw SOA drop to second-tier status last month after years in the top spot. It is Saugatuck’s view that SOA has alre ...

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 ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mike West Less than a week after SAP announced its plan to acquire Business Objects (see SAP + Business Objects: Formalizing the Obvious and Moving Ahead, RA-394, 10Oct07), Oracle announced an unsolicited bid for web server and mi ...

Author: Charlie Burns Saugatuck research clearly points to continued and expanded adoption of a series of disruptive influences in IT and business: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Open Source software, and a Utility Com ...

Author: Charlie Burns As previously explained (see IT Management Evolution: All Roads Lead to Rome, STR-372, 31July07), Saugatuck research clearly points to continued and expanded adoption of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Service Oriented Architecture (S ...

Author: Charlie Burns Saugatuck research clearly points to continued and expanded adoption of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Open Source software, and Utility Computing infrastructure. Individually, each of these techn ...

Author: Allison Perrin Saugatuck research with user and vendor executives indicates that the adoption and use of open source software is an increasingly important driver of SOA adoption and usage.  A variety of factors makes open source a complementary, ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mark Koenig A year after Saugatuck wrote about SOA’s relatively slow growth despite its exceptional potential for user and vendor business flexibility and growth (see SOA: IT Means to a Business End, RA-247, 06Jun06), SOA adoption ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Charlie Burns On May 3, 2007, VMware hosted an analyst update in Boston. The company presented information on its corporate direction, business strategy, technology strategy, and associated products, channel and alliance efforts. ...

Author: Bill McNee Last week, more than 2,000 senior vendor executives, venture capitalists, industry analysts and CIOs packed the Santa Clara Convention center for two days of keynotes (by the senior-most leadership of industry giants such as SAP, Micro ...

Authors: Charlie Burns Saugatuck recently asked IT executives about their plans for adoption of virtualization and for adoption of a Utility Computing infrastructure. Responses yielded a noteworthy characterization: Server virtualization appears to be q ...

Author: Mike West Saugatuck recently attended analyst briefings by Progress Software. While Progress’ business and product portfolio are currently built around a strong SOA foundation, it is now clear the company is moving strategically into Software-as- ...

Authors: Charlie Burns, Mike West, Bruce Guptill Recent Saugatuck interviews have shown that users are continuing to adopt server virtualization in pursuit of reduced IT infrastructure costs and server consolidation. Additional probing has uncovered some ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mike West Services-oriented architecture (SOA) is a far greater challenge than most companies realized when they began to adopt and deploy SOA. Rework, failed projects, and immature technologies have characterized many early user ...

Authors: Charlie Burns, Mike West As we near the close of 2006, the “Big 4” disruptive technologies of SOA, SaaS, Open Source, and Utility Computing continue to be front-and-center in the strategies, planning, and thinking of IT organizations. Not surpri ...

Authors: Mike West, Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee The end-user driven acquisition of multiple SaaS standalone applications is quite definitely opposed to the burgeoning IT initiative toward Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) – which is based on message-base ...

Author: Mike West SOA security requires understanding of SOA vulnerabilities, a single identity management infrastructure, and managed processes. Such processes must be designed to ensure: Appropriate use of services Adherence to current Web services ...

Authors: Mike West, Charlie Burns A series of recent software acquisitions indicate that the “boundaries” of applications software are further blurring – moving away from traditionally-defined business applications and more toward middleware and business ...

Authors: Tom O'Flaherty, Bill McNee, Bruce Guptill, Mike West As Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) market adoption continues to grow (slowly but surely), a variety of SOA roadmaps and maturity models have emerged to help guide users and vendors. Unfort ...

Authors: Bill McNee, Mark Koenig Having acquired Peregrine software in the fourth quarter of 2005, HP announced on July 25, 2006 its’ plans to purchase Mercury Interactive (MERQ) for $4.5 billion in cash, a 33 percent premium over the application managem ...

Authors: Mark Koenig, Allison Perrin More than eighteen months ago, during our initial research into SOA, Saugatuck observed significant early SOA adoption momentum combined with a high level of vendor commitment and a business-led approach to implementa ...

Authors: Charlie Burns, Bruce Guptill Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been a major focus of many of the major IT vendors and service providers for the past 2 years. However, despite this concerted focus and the related sizeable investments by IT ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Microsoft and SAP announced on May 8th that they planned to ship the first releases of the former Mendocino, now called Duet, in June 2006 – more than six months after the current/previous/original ship date.  The end goal of the co ...

Author: Mark Koenig Saugatuck’s 2nd Annual IT Trends Survey, conducted in October and November 2005, indicates that user executive IT Management Priorities and Initiatives continue to focus on short term, definable programs with clear ROI in 2006. Saugat ...