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Focus Area: The IT Utility - Next Generation Data Center
Saugatuck
surveys and interviews with user and vendor executives indicate that
the future of the data center is as a hybrid, complex, virtualized
utility that delivers IT as a set of services when and where needed
in all types and sizes of firms. Current utility computing models
are a step along the journey to an effective virtual IT environment.
While many
technological hurdles stand in the way of both vendor delivery and
user adoption, it will be user and vendor business
models and practices
that inhibit the growth - and cost effectiveness - of this virtual
data center utility.
Representative Consulting
Engagements
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Adoption Scenarios and Insights:
SOA, Utility Computing, Software-as-Service |
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User Business Model Issues |
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Technology Evolution
- Virtualization, Grid, Utility Data Center |
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Vendor Business Model Issues and
Scenarios |
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On
Demand and Pay-as-you-go pricing and licensing models and frameworks |
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Vertical Market Assessments |
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Positioning and Messaging |
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Sales
Training |
Relevant links to Published
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