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.
The four-year old software startup promises automated dynamic tuning across clusters of servers, storage and networking, with AI-powered, out-of-the-box settings for Kubernetes, MySQL, Java NGNIX and others. It has its first software out in the field, with revenue starting to come in.
It's almost a year since the company was added to the US Entity List, yet Huawei reported Q1 revenue up and that it has continued diversifying its supply chain. However, with the US now blocking global chip supplies to Huawei, and requiring licenses for sales to Huawei of chips made abroad with US technology, the road ahead looks more challenging.
Seven-year-old Liqid has moved beyond a reliance on using PCIe as a fabric and now supports multiple fabrics, including Ethernet. The product portfolio has been rebranded and expanded, making software the focus of its future strategy.
Will technology industry conferencing and travel practices be permanently reshaped, or will they ultimately revert to the volume and velocity of the tried (and tired) activities of the BC (Before Coronavirus) age? 451 Research's Coronavirus flash survey suggests there will be some permanent change.
Enterprises are at different points in their transformational journeys, and companies with large legacy installed bases, such as Micro Focus, need to have one foot in the old world and one in the new in order to support them while transitioning their own businesses.
In 451 Research's first deep-dive report into quantum computing, we find that the potential is huge, but so are the challenges to adoption. We think most companies should invest time rather than money at this stage, primarily to open minds to the possibilities. After all, a quantum leap might be just around the corner.
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