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 co-founders 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 is also a member of 451 Research’s Center of Excellence for Quantum Technologies.
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.
Based on silicon-level secure enclaves, Palo Alto-based startup Anjuna Security's transparent platform spans storage and network security, and requires no code modifications. Technology partners include Intel, AMD, AWS and Azure.
Although it's mostly thought of as a chip accelerator specialist, Graphcore's next-generation technology relies on systems, memory, fabric interconnect and software. The vendor has now released its second-generation offering, the Colossus MK2 GC200 intelligent processing unit.
The company's Confidential Computing technology, introduced at Google Cloud Next OnAir, leverages the Secure Encrypted Virtualization capabilities in AMD's second-generation EPYC CPUs, allowing cloud providers to optionally encrypt guest VMs, protecting them from administrator tampering.
Carbon Relay provides a machine-learning-based platform that brings automated optimization to Kubernetes applications to improve the performance and reduce the resources associated with the apps, as well as the time staff spends to configure them.
The freshly funded and restructured startup has built a high-throughput scale-out system that it claims will run containerized, edge and AI workloads faster, cheaper and more efficiently. Target workloads include Kubernetes-based applications, edge computing, data/analytics, and AI and machine learning deployments.
The coronavirus outbreak has rapidly shifted global markets, including those related to enterprise and service provider technologies, since we published our 2020 Trends report on Applied Infrastructure & DevOps in December 2019. This report serves as an update to our 2020 predictions in light of market changes due to COVID-19.
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