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.
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?
The company, which in May raised $10m in series A funding, is readying the general availability of its Liqid CI Platform, intended to deliver composable infrastructure for datacenters.
The rollup continues at Ivanti, the PE-backed company that itself is a bit of a rollup. In its latest purchase, Ivanti reaches for user workspace management and IT automation firm RES Software. The acquisition comes a little more than a year after one of the predecessor companies at Ivanti acquired RES's direct rival, AppSense. We understand terms of those deals are almost carbon copies of one another.
The seven-year-old startup has been working in the background for some time on automating complex application system deployments, but some recent announcements are likely to boost its profile.
The Scalable Data Accelerator card, for use within standard x86 servers, acts as a hardware and software offload engine for existing relational databases, boosting performance and capacity to tackle big-data problems on high-velocity data with real-time constraints.
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