Analyst Profile
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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
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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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Worldwide Private Cloud IT Infrastructure 2013–2017 Forecast
Mary Johnston Turner, Richard L. Villars, Jed Scaramella, Rohit Mehra, Laura DuBois, Dan Iacono, Al Gillen, Gary Chen, John Grady, Tim Grieser, Matthew Eastwood
Apr 2013 - Doc # 240624
Market Analysis
This IDC study presents our first five-year forecast for the worldwide private cloud IT infrastructure market. IDC estimates this market totaled $12.3 billion in 2012 and will increase to more than $22.2 billion in 2017. This is the firs ...
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