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Richard L. Villars
Vice President, Datacenter & Cloud

Team:
Cloud Computing
Directions 2012 (U.S) Participating Analysts
IDC Predictions Team
Infrastructure
Storage
Virtualization

IBM Buys SoftLayer: A New, Strategic Foundation for IBM’s Cloud (and 3rd Platform) Growth
Melanie Posey, Frank Gens, Richard L. Villars
Jun 2013 - Doc # lcUS24148613 IDC Link

On June 4, 2013, IBM announced its intent to acquire SoftLayer, a privately held infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and hosting services provider with more than 100,000 servers under management, 21,000 customers, and 13 network-connected da ...

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 ...

EMC's Pivotal Move: Get More Agile or Suffer the Consequences
Richard L. Villars
Mar 2013 - Doc # lcUS24022313 IDC Link

March 13, 2013, was a busy day for EMC and VMware as they held their 2013 Strategic Forum for Institutional Investors. Announcements, presentations, and discussions covered a wide range of topics from new solutions for software-defined data ...

hack/reduce Datacenter Plans Provide Evidence for New Physics of IT in the Universe of Cloud and Big Data
Richard L. Villars
Nov 2012 - Doc # lcUS23782912 IDC Link

Big Data was certainly one of the big stories of the recent U.S. elections. We are already seeing stories about how the smart use of analytics is changing electoral predictions, as well as how things can sometimes go horribly wrong when one ...

Eastern Seaboard Storm Resets Datacenter Resiliency Requirements: Service Providers Stand to Gain But Expectations Will Also Rise
Kelly Quinn, Richard L. Villars
Nov 2012 - Doc # lcUS23782212 IDC Link

One major result of October's ravaging of the Eastern Seaboard by Hurricane Sandy was extensive damage to internal and service provider datacenters across the region. Datacenters in Lower Manhattan alone suffered substantial damage, both in ...

The New Datacenter Order: Get Ready for Hybrid Datacenters and Data Factories
Richard L. Villars
Sep 2012 - Doc # lcUS23672112 IDC Link

The future of the datacenter was at the heart of several stories in the past week. VMware publicly introduced the idea of the software-defined datacenter, which will guide many of their long-term development and partnership strategies for m ...

Open Compute Project Announces Open Rack
Matthew Eastwood, Richard L. Villars, Virginia Agee
May 2012 - Doc # lcUS23479912 IDC Link

IntroductionThe Open Compute Project (OCP) celebrated their one-year anniversary last month not by looking back but by focusing on the future. The goal of the OCP is to apply open source software constructs to datacenter infrastructure desi ...