Al Gillen

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Al Gillen

Group Vice President, Software Development and Open Source

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Red Hat Targets Expansion of Edge Computing and Managed Services, Expanding OpenShift Opportunity

May 2021 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS46420421

By: Larry CarvalhoResearch Director, Platform as a Service, Lara GredenResearch Director, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Al GillenGroup Vice President, Software Development and Open Source

Computing based on real-time data and applied data science at the location of business activities is a fast-growing opportunity. The notion of extending the cloud out to the edge has the potential to deliver a new set of benefits, improving...
CentOS Alternative AlmaLinux Enters Beta Release

Feb 2021 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS47469621

By: Al GillenGroup Vice President, Software Development and Open Source

Red Hat's acceleration of the move positioning CentOS Linux as an upstream community distribution that is a precursor for subsequent Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases, not surprisingly, has ruffled some feathers in the CentOS community. Whi...
Open Source Software Conflicts: Elasticsearch and AWS Go at It Again

Feb 2021 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS47443821

By: Al GillenGroup Vice President, Software Development and Open Source

The dispute between Elasticsearch B.V. and Amazon Web Services, which dates back to 2019, saw another action taken by Elasticsearch on January 19, 2021, when the company announced it would transition its open source code licensing covering ...

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Microsoft's Nuance Gambit: Is It the Beginning of a Major Shopping Spree to Accelerate AI for Businesses Across Industries?

May 2021 | Market Perspective | Doc # US47634821

By: Ritu JyotiProgram Vice President, Worldwide Artificial Intelligence and Automation Research Practice Global AI Research Lead, Mutaz ShegewiResearch Director, Provider IT Transformation Strategies, Hayley SutherlandSenior Research Analyst, Conversational AI & Intelligent Knowledge Discovery, David SchubmehlResearch Director, Conversational AI and Intelligent Knowledge Discovery, Al GillenGroup Vice President, Software Development and Open Source

This IDC Market Perspective presents details and insights around Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance Communications Inc., announced on April 12, 2021. This document provides a group analysis of Nuance's AI offerings, the impact of the acquisi...
IDC PeerScape: Practices for Enabling Digital Innovation

Apr 2021 | IDC PeerScape | Doc # US47604121

By: Nancy GohringResearch Director, Future of Digital Innovation, Al GillenGroup Vice President, Software Development and Open Source

This IDC PeerScape discusses senior executives' best practices for driving innovation into their software development initiatives. By adopting these approaches, the companies achieved a number of important benefits including building new re...
IDC Survey: Open Source Use Plans

Apr 2021 | IDC Survey | Doc # US47152121

By: Al GillenGroup Vice President, Software Development and Open Source

This IDC Survey looks at the use of open source software in the United States and China and compares and contrasts between the two countries. The survey includes 305 completes, with 205 from the United States and 100 from China, and capture...

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Analyst Location

United States

Coverage

Cloud computing, Application development and deployment

Regions

Worldwide, North America

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Client Computing, IDC Predictions, Infrastructure, IT Executive Programs Analyst Team, Open Source, Virtualization