Al Gillen

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Al Gillen

Group Vice President, Software Development and Open Source

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Microsoft Wraps Up FY21 with a Strong Finish

Aug 2021 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS48133121

By: Al GillenGroup Vice President, Software Development and Open Source, Ritu JyotiGroup Vice President, Worldwide Artificial Intelligence and Automation Research Practice Global AI Research Lead

Microsoft's FY 4Q21 and full fiscal year 2021 results came in expectedly strong, with the company posting FY 4Q21 results that showed 21.3% growth over the quarter one year ago. Meanwhile, the full fiscal year finished up at $168 billion, a...
Red Hat Targets Expansion of Edge Computing and Managed Services, Expanding OpenShift Opportunity

May 2021 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS46420421

By: Larry Carvalho, 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...

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Free Your Digital Assets

Sep 2021 | IDC Perspective | Doc # US48184721

By: Nancy GohringResearch Director, Future of Digital Innovation, Mark ThomasonResearch Director, Lynne SchneiderResearch Director, Data as a Service & Location and Geospatial Intelligence, Al GillenGroup Vice President, Software Development and Open Source, Nadia BallardResearch Manager, Industry Cloud and SaaS

This IDC Perspective offers a starting point to enterprises for identifying the potential value in externally sharing digital assets such as data or software and explores examples of mechanisms they can use to derive value from those digita...
Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Open Source Ecosystem, 2021

Aug 2021 | Market Analysis Perspective | Doc # US47152221

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

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective document covers the Open Source Ecosystem research program and provides data and perspective related to the growing use of open source software in the industry. "The industry has demonstrated remarkable ...
How the Use of Open Source Software Changed During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Aug 2021 | Market Perspective | Doc # US46419921

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

This IDC Market Perspective takes a deeper look at the changing use of open source software during the COVID-19 pandemic."Going into the pandemic, we theorized that the financial disruption caused by the pandemic would substantially benefit...