Tier 1 Research has announced the availability of their first report on Utility Computing for the price of $2,750 until the end of June, when the price will rise to $3,000.
The 65-page report answers the ten most critical questions required to assess the technology opportunity and provides in-depth profiles on several dozen key public and privately held vendors.
"Vendors, IT buyers and investors need to understand that while utility computing IS the next big technology wave, it is not a product on to itself, but rather a vision for IT," says Andrew Schroepfer, president and founder of Tier 1 Research and author of the report.
Outside of IT consulting services, Tier 1 Research forecasts utility computing service and solution sales to be nominal in 2003, but this report will help each audience prepare for 2004 when utility services WILL exist and solutions reach general availability from virtually every vendor in the computing industry.
A sampling of the larger, publicly traded vendors frequently mentioned in these reports include: Accenture, Akamai, Computer Associates, EDS, Equinix, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Opsware, RedHat, Sun Microsystems, and Veritas.
Since the complexities and underutilization in the data center are very real, this report will help: 1) enterprise buyers better assess vendor strategies and ask more appropriate questions; 2) vendors evaluate the technology opportunity and the current landscape of solutions; and 3) investors understand which large cap companies stand to prosper and sputter along this evolution toward virtualizing resources and automating tasks through Web-based management consoles.
"This report is a must have for evaluating the opportunity and can be useful for individuals looking for a base understanding as well as the advanced given the level of vendor specific detail included," continued Schroepfer.
Privately held vendors also profiled in the report include: Aduva, Aurema, Bladelogic, CenterRun, Centrata, CoroSoft, Egenera, Ejasent, Inkra Networks, Moonlight Systems, Nauticus Networks, PlateSpin, PolyServe, Racemi, Relicore and Sychron.
Tier 1 Research (now 451 Research) provides financial and strategic analysis of public and private Internet infrastructure software and service vendors.