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28 May 2008New Report by The 451 Group, 'Low Latency – Time is Money,' Finds That Low-Latency Initiatives Will Dominate Financial Services for the Next Few YearsThe 451 Group believes that within the financial services sector, specifically when it comes to trading, companies that embrace low-latency architecture will stay competitive in their markets, while companies that ignore it will likely be forced out of the picture. The need for low latency will drive change in IT architectures, specifically (but not only) in financial services, and will provide new opportunities for vendors that supply these technologies. 26 Mar 2008The 451 Group: Open Source Software Has Limited Impact on the Enterprise Database Market as Adoption Is Widespread but ShallowThe 451 Group found that open source databases have made their way into enterprise environments, and the use of open source database management systems is now widespread. But while open source databases have been widely deployed for Web-tier applications, there has been minimal adoption in the enterprise application tier. Adoption for enterprise applications is at this time limited to certain specific application workloads.4 Mar 2008The 451 Group: 'Enterprise Guerrilla Application Development' Expected to Alter the Relationship Between Business Units and IT DepartmentsThe 451 Group believes that 'enterprise guerrilla application development' – involving applications developed outside IT departments by technically competent information workers – stands to fundamentally alter the relationship between business units and IT departments. 12 Feb 2008The 451 Group: Latest Version of GPL Software License Causes Disruption in the Enterprise Open Source IndustryThe 451 Group found that the latest version of the GNU General Public License (GPL) – the world's most widely used open source license and the practical embodiment of the 'free' software movement – is creating disruption within the enterprise open source industry. With the introduction of version 3 of the license, the GPL underwent its first revision in 15 years, causing much debate and uncertainty among developers and vendors as to the impact of the new license on existing projects and practices.6 Feb 2008The 451 Group: Slow-Moving Network Access Control Market Faces Increased Adoption and Tremendous Change in 2008 The 451 Group found that the next 12 months will bring tremendous changes to what has been a slow-moving market for network access control (NAC) products. Adoption of NAC technology has been hampered in recent years by an overabundance of competing architectures, products and approaches. Five years after Cisco first introduced the term 'NAC,' the time may finally be right for broad adoption, but that doesn't mean the future is bright for a slew of venture-funded NAC startups. 17 Jan 2008The 451 Group: Enterprise Social Software Sector Remains an Immature Market Despite Hype The 451 Group believes that the use of social software technologies – including blogs, wikis, social bookmarking and tagging, and social networking – is still in its infancy in the enterprise. There is use and interest among IT buyers, but not as much as the hype and excitement in this market warrants. The 451 Group and ChangeWave Research surveyed 2,081 IT and business professionals, and only 24% of respondents currently use social software – an indication of how immature this market still is. 11 Jan 2008The 451 Group Continues Attract New Talent in EuropeThe 451 Group has expanded its research team to help meet the demand for CIO-specific insight into enterprise IT innovation. The independent technology-industry analyst company has appointed Janice McGinn, former editor of CIO Magazine UK, as Research Director of The 451 Group's CIO Practice. 6 Dec 2007The 451 Group: Competition in Virtualization Technology Heats Up and Moves to the Management LayerThe 451 Group believes that competition in virtualization technology is heating up and has moved to the management layer. Thanks to open source projects, the hypervisor – the software layer that enables physical machines to run multiple virtual machines – has become a commodity. As a result, hypervisor vendors have become virtualization management vendors and are now selling virtualization administration. 28 Nov 2007The 451 Group: The Small and Medium-Sized Business Market Opportunity for Open Source Software Vendors Is LimitedThe 451 Group has found that while many vendors consider small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to be a 'hot market' for adopting open source software, the SMB market opportunity for open source software vendors is actually limited. SMB customers are highly cost-conscious and generally lack the IT resources to effectively manage anything beyond the simplest open source software. Easy-to-use open source software can be difficult for software vendors to make money from, but more complex or component-based open source software is unpalatable to the majority of the SMB market, unlike the historical and continuing success of open source software in the enterprise market.6 Nov 2007The 451 Group Adds Technology-Industry Veterans to Help Meet Increased Demand for Insight into Enterprise IT InnovationThe 451 Group continues to grow at a rapid pace as it adds technology-industry veterans to help meet the demand for insight into enterprise IT innovation. The independent technology-industry analyst company has added five new analysts to its team in recent months, as well as a new Vice President of Major Client Accounts. These new team members represent strategic additions to a company with significant operations in both the United States and the United Kingdom, serving hundreds of client organizations across North America, EMEA and Asia.30 Oct 2007The 451 Group: IT Energy Efficiency Will Soon Be at the Top of the Corporate IT AgendaThe 451 Group found that IT energy efficiency – for financial, environmental and availability reasons – is heading toward the top of the corporate IT agenda and will remain there for many years. IT organizations will almost always favor reliability and cost over conformance to 'green metrics' or ill-defined green objectives. However, many organizations will adopt, or be forced to adopt, specific policies that mandate eco-efficient purchasing and management. 16 Oct 2007The 451 Group: Transaction Security Industry Is in a State of Transition as it Experiences Increased Consolidation and a Marketplace ShiftThe 451 Group found that the transaction security industry is entering a state of transition as business issues push enterprises toward broader adoption of transaction security technologies. With more than 100 vendors offering products related to transaction security, vendors must make their technologies meaningful to the whole enterprise, not just to specific applications, or they face the threat of acquisition. 14 Sep 2007The 451 Group: Booming Cross-Atlantic IT and Telecommunications Sector M&A is a Boon for Financial AdvisorsThe 451 Group has found that four bulge-bracket investment banks – Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch – led in advising the fast-growing cross-Atlantic technology M&A market in the past year (as measured in total dollars). Out of the more than 75 investment banks that advised technology M&A transactions over the past year, larger firms Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and UBS, as well as mid-market banks Houlihan Lokey and Jefferies, also made strong showings in advising transactions between European countries and North America. 30 Jul 2007The 451 Group: The 'Big Four' Systems Management Vendors Are Ripe for a Shake-up From Open Source PlayersThe 451 Group has found that the 'Big Four' systems management vendors (BMC, HP, IBM and CA) are ripe for a shake-up from open source systems management players. In the past 18 months, open source options in the systems management space have grown to include a new set of vendors, backing open source systems management projects with commercial-grade support offerings. This combination of open source with enterprise services will have an impact on the proprietary systems management vendors.2 Jul 2007The 451 Group: Data De-duplication Is One of the Hottest Emerging Segments Within the Enterprise Storage and Data-Protection IndustryA new report from The 451 Group has identified data de-duplication as a critical emerging technology that is helping to reshape the entire data-protection market. Furthermore, as well as being the most talked about 'hot' technology in the storage industry right now, data de-duplication is proving to be a real market in that organizations large and small are embracing it with open arms and wallets. 14 Jun 2007The 451 Group: Desktop and Application Virtualization Technology Will Be Next to Permeate the Enterprise IT MarketThe 451 Group believes that virtualization is transforming the datacenter, and the next wave of virtualization technology will benefit desktops and applications. These improvements will lead to greater efficiency and power savings as this virtualization layer of software abstraction is added to the enterprise software infrastructure.24 May 2007The 451 Group Unveils Day-Two Keynotes for Software Business Transformation Summit, June 5-6, 2007The 451 Group has announced keynote speakers for day two of its Software Business Transformation Summit 2007. Rachel Chalmers, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Software with The 451 Group, will deliver an address titled 'Virtualization: From Datacenter to Desktop,' which outlines one of the themes for this year's Summit. The industry-leadership keynote on day two will be delivered by Rod Smith, Vice President of Internet Emerging Technology with IBM, who will focus on innovation in the software business model and what that means for ISVs and enterprise applications.24 May 2007The 451 Group: The Mobile Office Market Will Converge and Cease to Be a Major Driver of Enterprise Deployment – Leaving Few SurvivorsThe 451 Group believes that over the next 12-24 months the mobile office market will converge and, aside from Research In Motion (RIM) and a small number of overall survivors, will cease to be a significant direct driver of mobile deployment activity in the enterprise. 451 analysts believe the opportunity has gone (or is going), at least for the technology 'pure plays.' 4 May 2007The 451 Group Unveils Day-One Keynotes for Its June Software Business Transformation Summit 2007The 451 Group has announced its keynote addresses for day one of its June Software Business Transformation Summit 2007. David Yockelson, Vice President, Research Operations with The 451 Group, will deliver an address titled 'Parallel Evolution: Software to Services, and Channels to Ecosystems,' which outlines the theme for this year's Summit. Mark Lewis, Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer with EMC Corporation, will then deliver the industry-leadership keynote, titled 'Information 2.0 and Software's Innovation Opportunity.'25 Apr 2007The 451 Group Announces Its Software Business TransformationThe 451 Group will be producing its Software Business Transformation Summit (SBTS) June 4-6, 2007, at the JW Marriott in San Francisco, together with its Tier1 Research division. Now in its second year, SBTS explores the fundamental transformation occurring within the software business model. This year's theme, 'Parallel Evolution – Software to Services, and Channels to Ecosystems,' captures two of the most substantial influences that are realigning the software value chain.13 Mar 2007The 451 Group: New Contenders Join ‘Bulge Bracket’ Investment Banks to Grab a Share of the US Technology M&A Advisory Market at the Expense of Midmarket Full-service BanksA new report analyzing the US technology M&A business from The 451 Group reveals that traditional ‘bulge bracket’ investment banks and a small group of so-called ‘new bulge’ banks (which The 451 Group describes as the ascendant advisers owned by money center banks, namely Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan and UBS) significantly increased their market share within the US technology M&A advisory sector over the course of 2006.14 Feb 2007The 451 Group: The Number of Proprietary Software Vendors 'Going Open' Is Increasing SignificantlyThe 451 Group has found that the overall trend of proprietary software vendors 'going open' is increasing significantly, either as a major business-model shift away from software license fees as the basis for customer usage or in the more limited release of some code using an open source license. The majority of software vendors that have made a move to open source have only done so in the past year or two. The results of these early cases will influence the future direction of proprietary software vendors' selling practices and end users' buying preferences.31 Jan 2007New Report by The 451 Group Takes a 'State-of-the-Market' Look at Enterprise Grid ComputingA new report by The 451 Group provides a 'state of the market' look at enterprise grid computing, and the evolution of grid computing and deployment dynamics across different vertical industries, including financial services, telecom, pharmaceutical, digital media and manufacturing. The 451 Group has now interviewed more than 200 commercial early adopters of grids, and this new report analyzes what these early adopters are doing and where they are going with the technology.23 Jan 2007The 451 Group: Enterprise Security Information Management Industry Is in a State Of Flux as it Experiences Consolidation and Moves UpstreamThe 451 Group found that the Enterprise Security Information Management (ESIM) industry is in a state of flux. It is in the process of consolidating, while also moving upstream on its way to becoming a key part of information technology service management (ITSM).14 Dec 2006The 451 Group: Server Virtualization Is Transforming Datacenter Management, Creating a Key New Enterprise IT BattlegroundThe 451 Group believes that server virtualization is transforming datacenter management by breaking the one-to-one relationship between applications and (usually Windows) servers. This technology sits above the 'bare metal' and beneath the operating system, and 451 analysts believe that whoever dominates server virtualization will control this critical interface. The technology is becoming a major M&A driver as traditional hardware, operating system and management vendors scramble to accommodate it.16 Nov 2006New Report From The 451 Group Serves as a Practical Guide for Understanding and Calculating the Financial Benefits of Open SourceThe 451 Group introduced a new report today that serves as a practical guide for understanding and calculating the financial benefits of open source. A significant number of enterprise organizations do not have formal processes in place for financial analysis, even though most consider cost savings to be the primary motivator for open source adoption. This report introduces IT managers and architects to the basics of financial analysis – concepts, processes and elements – and provides a 'calculator' to help identify and capture the costs and potential benefits for adopting open source software.5 Oct 2006The 451 Group Launches Its Enterprise IT Innovation Summit With 2006 Focus on 'Enabling Enterprise Agility'The 451 Group is launching its Enterprise IT Innovation Summit – the company's new annual client conference – in late October. This invitation-only Summit will feature 451 analysts' cross-sector perspectives on the current state of innovation in enterprise IT. The Summit – produced primarily for the 700+ organizations that are clients of The 451 Group worldwide – will take place on October 31 and November 1, 2006, at the Marriott Long Wharf in Boston.28 Sep 2006The 451 Group Predicts a Sustained Shift in the Way That Geographically Distributed Companies Design Their Application InfrastructureThe 451 Group is predicting a sustained shift in the way that geographically distributed enterprises design their application infrastructure over the next few years. In particular, a variety of demographic, commercial and workplace trends will drive consolidation of server resources, with the resources moving away from dispersed branch offices and into centralized datacenters. 451 analysts believe this move will impact many areas of system design and purchasing, but the effect will be especially felt by those managing and building wide area networks (WANs) designed to connect dispersed users with the applications they need to access. This will lead to the increased adoption of a class of devices that 451 analysts call network-based application accelerators.21 Sep 2006The 451 Group Adds Four More Technology-Industry Veterans to its Analyst RanksThe 451 Group welcomes four more technology-industry veterans to its ranks. With these latest additions, The 451 Group continues to grow at a rapid pace, responding to increasing demand for its services. Henry Baltazar, former technical analyst for eWeek Labs, joins The 451 Group as a storage analyst. Brenon Daly, previously a reporter for The Deal, joins as a financial analyst covering emerging software companies with a focus on IT merger and acquisition (M&A) activity. Andy Dornan was a former reporter for a number of technology trade publications, and he now joins The 451 Group as an analyst covering network infrastructure. And Kathleen Reidy, independent consultant and writer and former Giga Information Group (now part of Forrester Research) analyst, joins as an analyst covering enterprise software.13 Sep 2006The 451 Group: Companies in the Energy Sector Are Turning to Grid Computing to Run Their Risk Management ApplicationsThe 451 Group has found that companies that extract, make a market in and retail natural resources are increasingly disposed to running risk management applications using grid computing to balance their supply and demand ratios. Understanding risk and asset positions and being able to respond more quickly to price fluctuations, especially in today's volatile oil market, are executive-level requirements that demand robust computing resources.31 Aug 2006The 451 Group: Nine Technology M&A Advisory Firms Claim Top Rankings Within the IT and Telecommunications SectorsThe 451 Group has found that nine firms – out of the more than 180 investment banks that advised technology M&A transactions over the past 18 months – claimed top rankings within major IT and telecom sectors. This and other findings are discussed in a new technology-industry 'league tables' report released by The 451 Group. The report provides a practical tool to help executives, board members, VCs and attorneys identify appropriate sector-experienced bankers for their buy- or sell-side engagements.22 Aug 2006The 451 Group Cuts Through the ‘Single Throat to Choke’ Hype from Open Source Stack Providers in New ReportThe 451 Group has found that despite open source stack providers’ offer of a single point of software support (‘a single throat to choke’), enterprise users will be increasingly looking to either their application providers or operating system vendors for the assurance of support. This finding is discussed in the first report from a new research service introduced today by The 451 Group.22 Aug 2006The 451 Group Introduces the 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research ServiceThe 451 Group is introducing a first-of-its-kind service that investigates both user experiences and vendor strategies as enterprise customers begin to deploy open source software. This new analytical service – the 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Service – was designed to help enterprise end users, software vendors and investors track and understand the opportunities and threats presented by open source.29 Jun 2006The 451 Group: Technology M&A Hits Four-Year High in First Half of 2006Technology acquirers (including telecommunications and Internet-sector companies) spent nearly a quarter-trillion dollars on acquisitions in the first half of 2006, setting what is a four-year spending high. While the period was marked by a surge in large telecommunications transactions, it also saw a steep drop-off in enterprise IT spending as major acquirers such as Oracle shunned big-ticket acquisitions in favor of a flurry of smaller transactions.7 Jun 2006The 451 Group: Growing Interest in Grid Application Deployment Among Enterprises Indicates Increasing Demand for Grid-Enabled Software Application InfrastructureThe 451 Group found that only a few applications have been written specifically for grids, and only a small number of today's commercial applications that appear suitable for grids have actually been deployed on or migrated to grids. But as enterprise momentum for grid computing and associated infrastructure models increases, new design points, development models and tools for creating and enabling commercial applications for grids will be required. This is especially apparent when considering grids as an intersection of virtualization, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and utility or on-demand delivery models.3 May 2006The 451 Group: Emerging Software Technologies Drive a Shift to Next-Generation Data Protection in the Storage SectorThe 451 Group believes that the traditional IT enterprise data protection model is undergoing significant structural changes as three emerging software technologies drive a shift to next-generation data protection (NGDP) in the storage sector. The technologies are data reduction, virtual tape libraries (VTLs) and continuous data protection (CDP). 451 analysts believe the structural changes present opportunities for a crop of young startups, which are moving quickly into the market with these technologies, and for incumbent vendors as they look to maintain their position in the marketplace and defend against large and small competitors.20 Apr 2006The 451 Group and Tier 1 Research Coproduce 2006 Software Business Transformation SummitThe 451 Group and its Tier 1 Research division have teamed up to produce the first annual Software Business Transformation Summit. This year’s conference will explore the opportunities and challenges facing both independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprise application developers as these organizations begin to migrate to software as a service (SaaS), subscription models and open source, among various new licensing and delivery models. Keynote speakers include the CEO of SpikeSource and the CMO of Salesforce.com.18 Apr 2006The 451 Group: Investment Banks Are Using Grid Computing Deployments as the Connective ‘Fabric’ for Shared Enterprise IT Infrastructure, Service-Oriented Architecture and Utility ComputingThe 451 Group has found that investment banks, the leading early adopters of grid computing, are quickly moving beyond compute grids in their enterprise grid computing deployments; moreover, these compute grids are increasingly being positioned as the underlying basis – i.e., the connective ‘fabric’ – for next-generation distributed computing environments.28 Mar 2006The 451 Group: Technology Mergers and Acquisitions Growth in Q1 2006 Reaches 67 Percent Year-over-yearThe 451 Group today announced the highlights of Q1 2006 technology industry M&A activity in the US and internationally. The data comes from the 451 M&A KnowledgeBase, a transactions database service that tracks acquisitions for more than 300 sectors in the IT, telecommunications and Internet industries.28 Feb 2006The 451 Group Unveils 2006 Executive Summits ProgramThe 451 Group is unveiling its 2006 program of summits for technology industry executives. The 451 Group has expanded the scope of its 451 Events group for 2006 and will be addressing several major points of change in the technology industry, with particular emphasis being placed on innovation in enterprise IT and its implications for the industry and for early adopters.22 Feb 2006The 451 Group Announces Panelists for Industry Summit on Next-Generation Data ProtectionThe 451 Group has secured a strong panelist lineup of senior executives for its next-generation data protection (NGDP) industry summit being held on March 8 in Palo Alto, California. The panelists’ companies are representative of IT vendors that are key stakeholders in bringing NGDP tools to the marketplace. This exclusive, invitation-only program will examine the role that NGDP technologies may play in helping enterprise IT organizations manage and protect growing and increasingly unwieldy data stores.14 Feb 2006The 451 Group Taps Technology Industry Veterans to Lead Growth and Expansion of Key Innovation-Focused Service LinesThe 451 Group welcomes two new professionals to its ranks. They represent strategic additions to the 451 team and will lead key initiatives to grow and expand the suite of 451 services. Lee Bruno, an experienced computing industry journalist of more than 16 years, including many years as an editor and columnist with Red Herring, joins The 451 Group as Editorial Director of 451 Special Reports. Raven Zachary, an expert in enterprise adoption of open source technology and most recently president of consulting group o*rev, has joined the team as Senior Analyst and Practice Head, Open Source.26 Jan 2006The 451 Group Launches New ‘451 M&A KnowledgeBase’ Service as Technology Industry M&A Level Hits New High of $339 BillionThe 451 Group announced the public availability of its 451 M&A KnowledgeBase service. As the first mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transaction database service specifically focused on the IT, communications and Internet sectors, the Web-based 451 M&A KnowledgeBase service combines the most granular and best categorized set of M&A data in the technology industry, with analytical insight from the well-recognized 451 analyst team. By blending M&A data and forward-looking analysis, this new service provides technology industry executives, bankers and investors with a single source of insider perspectives on deals, their rationales and their financial fundamentals.25 Jan 2006The 451 Group: Manufacturing Firms Are Increasingly Using Grid Computing for the “Grunt Work” of Complex Modeling and Design ActivitiesThe 451 Group has found that many companies in the industrial manufacturing sector are increasingly using grid computing technology for the “grunt work” – i.e., complex modeling and design tasks. But a majority of manufacturing firms are still waiting for a compelling business case to move applications downstream from traditional high-performance computing (HPC) into the enterprise.23 Jan 2006The 451 Group: 87% of Senior Technology-Industry Investment Bankers Surveyed Expect to See an Increase in 2006 M&A ActivityThe 451 Group, in a survey of senior-level investment bankers who regularly conduct transactions in the technology industry, found that 87% of respondents expect technology merger and acquisition (M&A) activity to increase in 2006 – following on the heels of what was already robust growth in 2005. Nearly half of these senior bankers surveyed report that their overall investment-banking pipelines in the technology industry have increased 25% or more, compared to the same period last year. And they believe that the Internet, mobile and IT services sectors – sectors that showed tremendous growth in 2005 – will show the fastest-growing M&A activity this year.17 Jan 2006The 451 Group: New Enterprise Mobile Value Chain Is Emerging to Support the Connected Mobile EmployeeThe 451 Group believes that a number of simultaneous enterprise IT industry trends point to a major shift away from the desktop-bound worker toward a fully wireless and always-connected mobile knowledge worker. The adoption of mobile-enabled laptops within the enterprise is growing at a substantial rate, wireless networks are becoming faster and more ubiquitous, and the suite of software needed to securely connect the mobile worker with the office is rapidly solidifying. This shift toward a 'mobile laptop as desktop' (MLAD) model represents the next phase of mobility within the enterprise, and 451 analysts believe that the challenges inherent in this new model will result in marketplace opportunities for four specific vendor groups.15 Dec 2005The 451 Group Deepens its Analyst Ranks as Demand for its Insight into the Business of Enterprise IT Innovation IncreasesThe 451 Group continues to grow at a rapid pace – responding to increasing demand for its services. The independent technology industry analyst company, which is focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation, has added five new analysts to its team in recent months. These new team members represent strategic additions to a company with significant operations in both the United States and the United Kingdom, serving hundreds of client organizations across North America, EMEA and Asia.8 Dec 2005The 451 Group: Ignoring Open Source May Expose Enterprise Software Vendors to Significant Risk and Result in Missed OpportunitiesThe 451 Group believes that enterprise software vendors can no longer afford to ignore open source. It is a powerful force of change with both upside and downside potential. In the worst-case scenario, open source can do severe damage – to licensing schemes and to legal definitions of intellectual property – if used improperly. The potential benefits, however, are also massive – making it important to clearly understand the critical path to finding upside in the commercial adoption of open source.6 Dec 2005The 451 Group: Early Experiences with Utility Models Indicate Strong Demand for Enterprise 'Agility' Through Grid ArchitecturesThe 451 Group has found that early adopters' use of utility computing points to an ongoing and growing change in the technology market. Grid computing is being used as a means to achieve a number of ends, utility computing being one of them. Most IT vendors and users see grids and the attributes that give grid computing its meaning – virtualization, resource reallocation, automation and self-management – as providing a technology underpinning for new kinds of IT procurement, delivery and usage models – the most evident of which are service-oriented architectures and utility models.28 Sep 2005The 451 Group: Grid Computing Technology Is a Critical Resource for the Digital Media Industry to Succeed in Delivering More Sophisticated Animation and Special EffectsThe 451 Group has found that grid computing technology has become a critical resource for the digital media industry – necessary to deliver more sophisticated animation and special effects – but technology vendors are facing numerous obstacles and challenges in delivering solutions to movie production and electronic gaming organizations.28 Sep 2005The 451 Group Announces Its Panelists for Open Source SummitThe 451 Group has secured a solid panelist lineup of senior executives for its open source software industry summit being held in Palo Alto, California next month. The panelists’ companies are representative of different approaches to the open source software model within the enterprise IT arena. This exclusive, invitation-only program will examine the pros and cons of various licensing models and will look at the decisions that enterprises and vendors need to make when considering whether to incorporate an open source approach into their businesses. It will also examine how investors should view the use of open source in potential investment targets and how open source affects the value of and risk associated with investments made in this area.22 Sep 2005The 451 Group Announces Its Panelists for Mobile Enterprise SummitThe 451 Group has secured a solid panelist lineup of senior executives for its mobile enterprise industry summit being held in Palo Alto, California next month. The panelists’ companies are representative of key enterprise software vendors focused on enabling enterprise mobility and delivering rich Internet applications to mobile knowledge workers. This exclusive, invitation-only program will investigate the emerging value chain for enterprise mobility in the context of a discussion of the dynamics surrounding what 451 analysts believe is the beginning of the end for the enterprise desktop PC as we know it today.18 Aug 2005The 451 Group: Limitations in Data Management Capabilities Cause Many Large Enterprises to Delay Grid DeploymentsThe 451 Group has found that many large enterprises have delayed broadening their grid deployments because of limitations in data management capabilities. Managing data on grids is a core capability and a key driver for enterprise grid adoption, but users have been frustrated by the lack of progress from vendors in meeting this need and have had to rely on their own resources to successfully manage data on grids.3 Aug 2005The 451 Group Acquires Tier 1 ResearchThe 451 Group has acquired privately held, Minneapolis-based Tier 1 Research – an independent technology industry research firm. Tier 1 Research analyzes the financial and industry implications of developments impacting public and private companies within the IT, communications and Internet commerce sectors. Through this acquisition, Tier 1 Research has become a wholly owned, independent division of The 451 Group – a privately held, New York-based technology industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation.20 Jul 2005The 451 Group: Text Analysis Is Becoming the Key Battleground for Software that Manages, Searches and Finds Intelligence in Unstructured DataThe 451 Group believes that integrating unstructured data analysis (UDA) technology directly into end-user software is key to the development of a new class of powerful text-aware applications. The future shape of a large portion of the software market – databases, UDA, search and applications – will depend on which companies manage to integrate the technology into their own applications and successfully deploy it first.8 Jun 2005The 451 Group: Drug Discovery Drives Grid Adoption in the Pharmaceutical Sector, but Enterprise Use Is LimitedThe 451 Group has found that while a small number of leading pharmaceutical companies have established significant grid deployments for drug discovery, a majority of users in this sector remain unconvinced about the broader value of grid computing. A need for high-performance computing makes the pharmaceutical sector a natural adopter of grids, but The 451 Group has found that compared with other industries, such as financial services, the pharmaceutical sector is somewhat behind in terms of broader deployments.18 May 2005The 451 Group Expands Its Team, Adding Analysts in the Networking and Storage SectorsThe 451 Group has expanded its team with the addition of two new analysts, further enhancing the company’s ability to deliver industry-leading insight into the business of enterprise IT innovation. Steve Steinke, a recognized expert in the network management arena, has joined the team as a senior analyst in the company’s Networks & Media sector. Sonia Lelii, who is well-known as a storage technology market watcher, has joined as an analyst in the Storage & Systems sector.17 Mar 2005The 451 Group: Current Enterprise Software Licensing Models Are a Major Obstacle to Increased Grid Application DeploymentThe 451 Group believes current enterprise software licensing models are throttling grid computing deployments and that these models, which have been built around legacy concepts of enterprise application use, are presenting an increasing problem for enterprise IT managers as they pursue implementations of grid applications. Enterprise IT departments are finding that they can’t afford to buy software licenses for every processor or device in a grid for each application they intend to run on that grid – a necessity, under current licensing schemes. Grids, by their nature, consume resources dynamically, and this is a concept that is not well addressed in the majority of software user licenses. This reality is skewing the potential return on investment (ROI) from grid computing programs – posing a formidable obstacle to grid application deployment.4 Feb 2005The 451 Group: Growth of speech technologies in enterprise IT is being hindered by vendors’ cumbersome approaches to delivering custom “solutions” and a lack of demonstrable return on investmentA report released today by technology industry analyst company The 451 Group focuses on the challenges and opportunities facing vendors in the speech technology market. The 451 Group – which notes that the speech technology market has yet to really take off (despite many years of the industry’s promises) and remains “structurally messy” (in terms of market taxonomy) – believes that vendors’ fundamental approaches to how speech technologies are packaged and sold are limiting more widespread adoption of these technologies in enterprise IT.16 Dec 2004Analysis of the Symantec-Veritas Merger by The 451 Group: “A bold and surprising move by Symantec” could make it a disruptive influence in enterprise software – but could also weigh it downTechnology industry analyst company The 451 Group believes Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) could become a disruptive influence in enterprise software as a result of its proposed acquisition of Veritas Software (Nasdaq: VRTS), but 451 analysts caution that a failure to properly integrate the product lines could make the deal a liability.16 Dec 2004The 451 Group: After four years and more than $4.2 billion in M&A, the storage virtualization technology market is picking up steam, entering its second waveA report released today by technology industry analyst company The 451 Group delivers key insights on the evolution of the market for storage virtualization technologies. The 451 Group, which produced a 451 Special Report on the first wave of storage virtualization in 2001, now believes the second wave of virtualization is carrying the storage industry. Analysts at The 451 Group note that momentum is finally building after more than four years of product development and over $4.2 billion in reported deal values for M&A activity in this space since December 2000.5 Aug 2004Technology Industry Analyst Company The 451 Group Predicts $3-4 Billion in Software M&A over the next 18 months as Network and Application Management Worlds CollideNew 451 Special Report looks at how traditional network and systems management vendors will acquire and integrate application monitoring companies into their frameworks; likely acquirers include BMC, CA, Concord, HP, IBM and InfoVista.6 May 2004Analysis Firm The 451 Group Finds Storage Vendors are Leading the Development of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)New 451 Special Report highlights ILM's role as the missing link between enterprise storage and the wider IT infrastructure; announced ILM M&A activity exceeds US$4.5 billion in the period from Q2 2003 to Q1 2004 — an increase of over 600% — and continues to accelerate.22 Jan 2004Analysis Firm The 451 Group Scrutinizes 2004-2005 Performance and Market Opportunity for Enterprise Mobile Software Vendors451 Special Report tackles issue of what happened to the enterprise mobile revolution; highlights the next 18 months as critical partnering and acquisition period for vendors; shows enterprise mobile-related M&A set to grow beyond US$83 million reported for 2003.1 Oct 2003Analysis Firm The 451 Group Finds the Grid Computing Market Heading Toward an Inflection Point451 Special Report highlights the next 18 months as critical period of market development; financial services, life sciences and manufacturing are 75% of early customer adoption; Grid-related M&A exceeded US$1 billion over the past year.17 Jul 2003Analysis Firm The 451 Group Finds Business Intelligence Software Vendors Failing to Address Growing Demand for Marketing Analytics451 Special Report spotlights emerging market for CRM analytics software; application suite vendors better positioned than the BI community to address demand; Sarbanes-Oxley and other government regulations to necessitate analytics for enterprises.15 May 2003Analysis Firm The 451 Group Finds a Gaping Hole in Many Leading IT Vendors’ Enterprise Storage Security Strategies451 Special Report spotlights emerging market for enterprise storage security technologies; Brocade, CA and HDS stand out as vendors that 'get it;' startups Ingrian Networks and NeoScale are well positioned as M&A targets.16 Apr 2003Analysis Firm The 451 Group Believes Mobile Data Finally Will Take Off in 2004Special Report says IT vendors, not telecom, will succeed in the mobile data opportunity; analysis identifies emerging private-company investment and acquisition targets.
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