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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

As Vice President, Datacenter & Cloud, Richard Villars is a senior member of IDC's IT Infrastructure research team, which assesses the development and adoption of solutions for datacenter transformation and exploitation of rapidly evolving technologies in the areas of Big Data and Cloud. He develops IDC's viewpoints on the evolution of converged IT infrastructure as well as the adoption of public and private cloud solutions. He advises clients on the impact of open systems, software and network efforts on organizations' infrastructure, deployment, procurement, and management practices.

Mr. Villars is a frequent speaker at industry and Wall Street conferences. Most recently, he spoke to IT managers in the US, South American, and Asia on compute and storage solutions for the "cloud," managing storage capacity growth associated with Big Data analytics, and the impact of converged IT solutions on datacenters and IT staffs. 

Mr. Villars has spent over 25 years at IDC assessing the emergence of network, storage, and server solutions as well as advising companies on the impact of the Internet and information growth on existing IT and general business practices. He has a bachelor of science in Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.) from Georgetown University with a concentration in science, technology, and international affairs.


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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 ...

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IBM Acquires SoftLayer — The European Impact
Mette Ahorlu, Melanie Posey, Frank Gens, Richard L. Villars
Jun 2013 - Doc # QL55V      Event Flash
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 ...
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IDC Maturity Model: Cloud — A Guide to Success in Asia/Pacific
Kimberly Knickle, Usman Sindhu, Robert P. Mahowald, Richard L. Villars, Mary Johnston Turner, David McNally, Scott Lundstrom, Stephen D. Hendrick, Melinda-Carol Ballou, Joseph C. Pucciarelli, Frank Gens, Chris Morris
May 2013 - Doc # AP6684423V      Industry Development and Models
The IDC study discusses IDC's Cloud Maturity Model, which is designed for organizations that are interested in understanding how they can take the necessary actions to move forward successfully with cloud computing.: Based on result ...
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Appearances

The Top Five Habits of Highly Successful DCIM Vendors
Framingham, MA United States
June 13, 2013

IDC Predictions 2013: The New Datacenter Dynamic
United States
December 18, 2012