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 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.
Having offloaded one software business, Intel has divested another, selling Wind River to TPG Capital, the private equity firm that acquired McAfee from the chip giant in 2016. In divesting Wind River, Intel is shedding a business that's closely linked to its core growth strategy.
This Market Monitor overview report on the Desktop Virtualization Ecosystem (DVE) provides updated vendor estimates through Q4 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).
Pervasive Intelligence has the potential to rapidly change the technology product and services landscape. Vendors that are able to translate data into value will survive and thrive. Those that are not will be left behind.
With larger targets now in short supply, attention is focusing on mid-tier M&A in the semiconductor sector. Players in this space are a fragmented bunch, but that often creates a case for merging adjacent activities. The Microchip-Microsemi pairing looks like a classic example.
Every company is becoming a service provider, and software is the new hardware in the digital enterprise. Consequently, service providers need to raise their software IQs in order to remain relevant.
4Sight is 451 Research's longer-term look into the future of information technology. This Spotlight is the first of a series that will highlight multiple subthemes explored within our main 4Sight report. We start with Invisible Infrastructure: The Age of Consumption.
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