Recent Research from John Abbott

• Desktop Virtualization Ecosystem

  By Greg Zwakman John Abbott Kathleen Frodyma August 7 2017 | Market Monitor & Forecast

  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).

  Systems & Software Infrastructure Development, DevOps & IT Ops

• IGEL continues push to its endpoint management software beyond the thin client

  By John Abbott July 12 2017 | Market Insight

  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?

  Systems & Software Infrastructure Development, DevOps & IT Ops Managed Services & Hosting

• Citrix changes CEO as board looks for faster transition to the cloud

  By John Abbott July 11 2017 | Market Insight

  Managed Services & Hosting Systems & Software Infrastructure Development, DevOps & IT Ops

• Liqid offers PCIe switch and software package for datacenter composable infrastructure

  By John Abbott July 5 2017 | Market Insight

  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.

  Development, DevOps & IT Ops Systems & Software Infrastructure Managed Services & Hosting

• Ivanti keeps the rollup rolling, adds RES Software

  By John Abbott Brenon Daly July 5 2017 | Market Insight

  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.

  Systems & Software Infrastructure Managed Services & Hosting Development, DevOps & IT Ops

• Vnomic models complex business-application semantics for convergence and the cloud

  By John Abbott June 20 2017 | Market Insight

  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.

  Development, DevOps & IT Ops Systems & Software Infrastructure

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