MKT-442 IT Appliances: Too Good to Ignore?

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IT Appliances: Too Good to Ignore?

Document:                      MKT-442
Date of Publication:          March 12, 2008
Number of Pages:            6
Lead Author(s):                M. Koenig, C. Burns, B. Guptill
Price:                              $195 USD

Perspective Summary:

Vendors of IT appliances claim their offerings can provide substantial relief to several of the challenges confronting typical user IT organizations. Their claims sound much like those of many SaaS providers, in that appliances can:

	Simplify IT infrastructure complexity,
	Control or reduce IT management costs,
	Improve service levels, and/or
	Reduce or eliminate integration challenges.

At the same time, hardware vendors are eyeing the same IT infrastructure challenges and evaluating ways that packaged application or middleware functionality could provide competitive differentiation.

This Strategic Perspective examines the forces that are driving the increase in popularity of both real and virtual appliances on the part of both users and vendors. In a follow-up Perspective, we will look at how appliance computing is evolving, and describe the different types of appliances that we envision taking root in the market.

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