John Abbott
Founder & Research Vice President | London, UKBiography
John Abbott covers systems, storage and software infrastructure topics for 451 Research, and over a career that spans more than 25 years has pioneered specialist technology coverage in such areas as Unix, supercomputing, system architecture, software development and storage.
As one of the cofounders of The 451 Group in October 1999, John ran analyst operations from the company's San Francisco office. He has been a principal author on many 451 Research Special Reports, including those on storage virtualization and blade servers the first comprehensive surveys of either subject to be published. More recently John has focused on converged infrastructure and new systems architectures.
John began covering the technology sector in 1984, building on his previous experience as a technical author and direct involvement using mainframes, early PCs and Unix workstations. As a freelance journalist, he contributed to publications including Computing, Computer Weekly, The Financial Times and The Times. In 1987, he was appointed editor of ComputerWire's weekly Unix newsletter, Unigram.X, and later became editor of the company's daily Computergram International service, first in London and subsequently in San Francisco.
John has a BA in music and an MA in modern English literature from the University of London.
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Recent Research from John Abbott
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Oracle upgrades SPARC with new M8 chip and systems
The SPARC M8 has arrived pretty much to schedule. Oracle insists it is still committed to both SPARC and Solaris, but recent layoffs suggests a reset has taken place.
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Adjusting its stance, Arm hires Drew Henry as VP of servers and networking
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DriveScale updates enterprise clustering and scale-out for modern workloads
Stateless servers linked to JBOD storage provide a more efficient cluster infrastructure that is better suited for scale-out application workloads such as Hadoop. DriveScale is partnering with hardware vendors and service providers to provide 'software composable infrastructure' from standard hardware elements.
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Desktop Virtualization Ecosystem
This Market Monitor overview report on the Desktop Virtualization Ecosystem (DVE) provides updated vendor estimates through Q2 2017. Virtualization and cloud services have empowered the end user with dynamic and flexible computing alternatives, opening up a new world of possibilities in the 'user centric' evolution of IT. This report examines the two primary subsectors in the Desktop Virtualization Ecosystem: Workspace Virtualization (including Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Session-Based Computing and Application Virtualization); and Virtual Desktop Management (including Storage Optimization, User Virtualization, and Assessment, Monitoring and Testing).
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IGEL continues push to its endpoint management software beyond the thin client
The company now packages its IGEL OS and Universal Management Suite in three ways: as a downloadable converter for existing PCs, as a hardened, bootable thumb drive, and as part of a more traditional sale of thin client systems. How is that difficult transition from hardware to software going?
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