Authors: Jim Cassell, Charlie Burns Utility Computing is gaining customer acceptance, amid significant investments by systems vendors to build on their individual “brand” (e.g., Adaptive Enterprise, On Demand, Real Time Infrastructure) and the resulting ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Jim Cassell Sun Microsystems (SUNW) announced on April 25 that CEO Scott McNealy will step down as CEO after 22 years. President and COO Jonathan Schwartz will take over as CEO, effective immediately. McNealy remains chairman, and ...

Authors: Jim Cassell, Bill McNee IT costs are being reduced across the board. This includes the price of hardware, software, and many services. In addition users are continuing to improve efficiency and productivity. This is due primarily to significantl ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee, Mark Koenig, Jim Cassell As the world economy continues to improve, more and more firms have amassed large cash positions on their balance sheets. Saugatuck Technology recently convened a roundtable discussion in mid-F ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee, Mark Koenig, Jim Cassell As the world economy continues to improve, more and more firms have amassed large cash positions on their balance sheets. Saugatuck Technology recently convened a roundtable discussion in mid-F ...

Author: Jim Cassell The total disk storage in the world grew by 59.3% to reach 457 petabytes in 2005. This includes storage inside computers and in external storage devices. This phenomenal growth will continue through 2010, as key drivers of regulatory ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Jim Cassell, Bill McNee, Mark Koenig Saugatuck Technology surveys and executive interviews clearly show that choice has become a key factor in user IT investment decisions. This desire is being driven by increasingly flexible opti ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Jim Cassell On January 25, 2006, IBM announced its acquisition of CIMS Lab, Inc., a privately-held software company with products that enable resource usage data collection for chargeback and other virtual environment management a ...

Author: Jim Cassell During a conference at Bangalore's Indian Institute of Science, a gunman walked in and began throwing hand grenades. He then undertook a shooting spree with his AK-47. One person died and four were injured. Bangalore is the major cent ...

Author: Jim Cassell On November 29, 2005, Hewlett Packard announced HP Flexible Computing Services, an offering to let customers “rent” compute resources and associated implementation and/or operational services from HP as required. This offering is targ ...

Author: Jim Cassell Utility computing and infrastructure – the IT utility – remains one of the hottest topics of interest among IT and business executives worldwide. Saugatuck research not only shows increasing user interest in a utility computing enviro ...

Authors: Bill McNee, Bruce Guptill, Mark Koenig, Jim Cassell Commercially viable open source software alternatives are available to users in virtually any software category, and at potentially much lower costs for support and integration than commonly th ...

Authors: Mark Koenig, Jim Cassell Recent Saugatuck research indicates that the transition to the IT Utility continues.  Saugatuck’s 2nd annual IT Trends Survey shows increasing adoption of Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) models in core IT infrastructure over the ne ...

Author: Jim Cassell On October 10, Microsoft announced an important initiative to help customers begin creating a utility IT environment. Starting in December, software license fees can be based on the number of instances of a software product running on ...

Author: Jim Cassell On September 28th, Cisco announced a series of initiatives to help customers create a utility IT environment. Primarily software-based, VFrame Server represents Cisco’s strategy to enter new markets higher up the technology value chai ...

Authors: Jim Cassell, Bill McNee In response to client requests, we introduce “Saugatuck Planning Positions” (SPP’s). SPPs have a probability of at least 60 percent of occurrence within the planning horizon identified – typically 3 years. Please view th ...

Authors: Mark Koenig, Jim Cassell, Bruce Guptill On September 12, 2005 Oracle announced it will acquire Siebel Systems for $5.85B in cash and stock. The deal would close early in 2006. Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison stated that with the acquisition of Sie ...

Authors: Bill McNee, Bruce Guptill, Jim Cassell, Mark Koenig Hurricane Katrina devastated a wide swath of the US Gulf Coast economy, from individual homes to businesses, including major energy, agricultural, and transportation infrastructure. It will tak ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee, Mark Koenig, Jim Cassell, Alison Perrin Saugatuck research indicates that user and IT executive business priorities are shifting rapidly. Formerly top-of-mind Security and Compliance initiatives and investments have be ...

Authors: Bill McNee, Jim Cassell While talk of software industry consolidation is rampant – it was only earlier this week that we truly understood how consolidated the market already is based on answering the question: “What percent of worldwide software ...