John Abbott covers systems, storage and software infrastructure topics for 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Over a career that spans more than 30 years, he 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 topics such as converged infrastructure, new systems architectures, AI and deep learning accelerators. He helped establish 4SIGHT, the 451 Research framework for the forward-looking, long-term coverage of emerging 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. He established the 451 Research office in San Francisco and lived there for over a decade.
John studied music at the University of Keele and has an MA in modern English literature from the University of London.
HPE GreenLake was again the center of attention at the recent Discover event. The company's string of strategic acquisitions, including Athonet, Axis Security, Determined AI, Pachyderm and OpsRamp, is helping drive its development of edge-to-cloud infrastructure and cloud services enabled by the HPE GreenLake platform.
The mainframe file transfer and data management startup has forged key partnerships with cloud and storage vendors as it establishes its software technology connecting mainframe data to the cloud. Model9 has now focused on three areas: mainframe backup, archive and disaster recovery; cyber resiliency; and connecting mainframe data to the latest AI/ML and analytics technology.
The UK startup is developing silicon IP that it claims can improve memory access between the CPU and memory by up to 1,000 times through architectural modifications between the host processor and the memory. The rise of RISC-V may give it a market entry point.
The vendor is broadening its remit with capabilities to continuously monitor Java applications in production for known vulnerabilities. Together with support/maintenance offerings for Azul Platform Core and Azul Platform Prime, the new service addresses the top two challenges to cloud-native adoption: security and cost.
Intel purchased Codeplay in June 2022 for its cross-architecture software platform expertise for developers. The target has since delivered plug-ins for Intel's oneAPI programming platform, enabling it to support Nvidia and AMD graphics processing units.
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