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Al Gillen
Program Vice President, System Software

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Infrastructure
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Worldwide Software Research

VMware Jumps into IaaS Provider Business with vCloud Hybrid Service
Melanie Posey, Al Gillen, Richard L. Villars
May 2013 - Doc # lcUS24128513      IDC Link
At an investor forum held earlier this year, VMware announced a strategic initiative to extend its software-defined datacenter/virtualization value proposition from the inside out with public/multitenant and private/dedicated cloud services ...
Microsoft's FY 3Q13 Earnings: A Balanced Portfolio Strategy Prevails
Rajani Singh, Al Gillen
May 2013 - Doc # lcUS24102213      IDC Link
Outperforming analysts and Wall Street's expectations in most of the financial metrics, Microsoft reported on April 18, 2013, 18% year-over-year revenue growth for the quarter ended March 31, 2013, settling at $20.5 billion, with gross prof ...
Microsoft Q2 Financials: A Record Quarter for the Wrong Reasons
Al Gillen, David Daoud, Rajani Singh, Susan G. Middleton
Jan 2013 - Doc # lcUS23924613      IDC Link
Microsoft’s financial reporting for its second quarter of fiscal 2013, which ended December 31, 2012, showed a dramatic recovery from the previous quarter’s disappointing $16 billion tally, with a record-high $21.5 billion in revenue for th ...
Sinofsky Out: Surprise or Not?
Al Gillen, Tom Mainelli
Nov 2012 - Doc # lcUS23786712      IDC Link
The sudden departure of Steven Sinofsky adds significant fuel to the firestorm discussion of whether Windows 8 will be successful or — intentional or not — casts a cloud over the Windows 8 product only two weeks after the formal launch of t ...
Microsoft's 1Q FY13 Earnings Summary: The Windows 8 Factor
Rajani Singh, Al Gillen, David Daoud
Oct 2012 - Doc # lcUS23749712      IDC Link
Consistent with IDC's projected and preliminary PC market performance for the third quarter of 2012, Microsoft reported on October 18, 2012, an 8% year-over-year revenue decline for the quarter ended September 30, 2012, settling at $16.008 ...
Windows Server 2012: Available in Black and White
Al Gillen
Jul 2012 - Doc # lcUS23585712      IDC Link
Responding to shifting market requirements, on July 5, 2012, Microsoft revamped licensing and use rights for its forthcoming Windows Server 2012 product.This move includes a number of related adjustments, the most visible of which is the di ...
Microsoft Announces Surface-Branded Windows 8 and Windows RT Tablets
Tom Mainelli, Al Gillen, Danielle Levitas
Jun 2012 - Doc # lcUS23550112      IDC Link
Microsoft announced plans Monday to launch two self-branded tablets — one called Surface for Windows RT and one called Surface for Windows 8 Pro — later this year. The announcement, made at an invitation-only press event reminiscent of past ...
AWS Cites Seven Transformations of Cloud
Al Gillen
Apr 2012 - Doc # lcUS23452512      IDC Link
On April 19, 2012, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit kicked off in New York. As one of the industry’s leading cloud providers since 2006, Amazon has invented new services to expand its set of cloud offerings with little direct competitio ...
Microsoft Revs Up Windows 8 Excitement with Consumer Release
Brett Waldman, Al Gillen
Mar 2012 - Doc # lcUS23353312      IDC Link
After months of relative silence, Microsoft has started to rev up the discussion around the forthcoming Windows 8 rollout, most recently with a broad release of beta code in conjunction with a consumer preview event held in Barcelona on Feb ...
Windows 8 on ARM: Important New Disclosures
Al Gillen, Tom Mainelli, Al Hilwa
Feb 2012 - Doc # lcUS23318012      IDC Link
Microsoft quietly made several Windows 8 on ARM (WOA) announcements that could help redraw the PC and media tablet markets over the course of the next two years. In a blog post that went live February 9, Windows client chief Steven Sinofsky ...
Microsoft Q2 Financial Results: Still a Relevant Company
Al Gillen
Jan 2012 - Doc # lcUS23275312      IDC Link
I have fielded a number of press calls in recent months asking me a simple question: Is Microsoft still a relevant company? The question invariably originates from one of two directions: because Microsoft is so late to the tablet market and ...
System Center 2012 Licensing Optimized for Private Cloud
Mary Johnston Turner, Al Gillen
Jan 2012 - Doc # lcUS23272012      IDC Link
On January 17, 2012, Microsoft announced it had delivered the Release Candidate version of System Center 2012, which the firm described as being optimized to build and manage application-focused private clouds. Microsoft also introduced a n ...
Oracle Solaris 11, Aimed at Cloud Deployments, Enhances Network Virtualization
Jean S. Bozman, Al Gillen
Dec 2011 - Doc # lcUS23195211      IDC Link
Oracle's announcement of Oracle Solaris 11 deepened the operating system's support for server, storage and network virtualization, even as it carried forward support for earlier generations of Solaris applications for SPARC and x86 server p ...