Richard L. Villars

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Current: Richard L. Villars

Richard L. Villars

Group Vice President Worldwide Research

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The Continued Acceleration of Cloud Service Revenue Despite the Steepest GDP Decline in History. Why?

Aug 2020 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS46755520

By: Larry CarvalhoResearch Director, Platform as a Service, Eric NewmarkProgram Vice President - SaaS, Enterprise Apps, Industry Cloud, and Digital Commerce, Richard L. VillarsGroup Vice President Worldwide Research, Deepak MohanResearch Director, Cloud Infrastructure Services

Public cloud services of all types meet two major requirements underpinning service delivery, not just commercial transactions in the pandemic age: improved agility and lower capital commitments. They are and will continue to attract invest...
IBM FY 2Q20 Earnings: Cloud Becomes the Foundation for Control and Resiliency in the Crisis

Jul 2020 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS46730120

By: Robert ParkerSenior Vice President, Enterprise Applications, Data Intelligence, Services, and Industry Research, Richard L. VillarsGroup Vice President Worldwide Research

In its commentary on the first-quarter results, IBM executives indicated that a strong first two months was partially offset by a weaker March so there was tremendous interest in this quarter's results to see if that contraction would conti...
Cloud Flattens the COVID-19 Dip But Has Room for More Improvement

May 2020 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS46335220

By: Richard L. VillarsGroup Vice President Worldwide Research, Carla ArendSenior Program Director: Lead Analyst, Cloud in Europe, Mary Johnston TurnerResearch Vice President, Cloud Management, Larry CarvalhoResearch Director, Platform as a Service, Deepak MohanResearch Director, Cloud Infrastructure Services

The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic is the first crisis of the cloud era. All the cloud promises when it comes to elastic consumption, agile development, and global reach are being put to the test. IDC believes cloud platforms (public/hosted/private...

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VMware to Acquire Datrium and Expand Its DRaaS Footprint

Jul 2020 | Market Note | Doc # US46692720

By: Phil GoodwinResearch Director, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group, Archana VenkatramanAssociate Research Director, Cloud Data Management, IDC Europe, Ashish NadkarniGroup Vice President, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group, Stephen ElliotProgram Vice President, Management Software and DevOps, Eric BurgenerResearch Vice President, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group, Richard L. VillarsGroup Vice President Worldwide Research, Andrew SmithResearch Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Services, Matthew EastwoodSenior Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure, Cloud, Developers and Alliances

This IDC Market Note discusses IDC's perspective on the recent announcement by VMware that it intends to acquire Datrium, subject to regulatory approvals. While much of the IT market is suffering from a decline in spending because of COVID-...
IBM Think 2020: Innovation Leadership in a Post-COVID-19 World

May 2020 | Market Note | Doc # US46389420

By: Richard L. VillarsGroup Vice President Worldwide Research, Jerry SilvaProgram Vice President, Ritu JyotiProgram Vice President, Artificial Intelligence Research , Global AI Research Lead, Robert ParkerSenior Vice President, Enterprise Applications, Data Intelligence, Services, and Industry Research, Mary Johnston TurnerResearch Vice President, Cloud Management, Deepak MohanResearch Director, Cloud Infrastructure Services

This IDC Market Note looks at the IBM Think 2020 virtual event held May 5-6. IBM's new CEO laid out the primary business goals for IBM and Red Hat in the short term and midterm and discussed how the goals align with IBM's response to the CO...
Worldwide Datacenter Installation Census and Construction Forecast, 2020–2024

May 2020 | Market Forecast | Doc # US45153720

By: Richard L. VillarsGroup Vice President Worldwide Research

This IDC study provides our annual summary of data from IDC's semiannual Worldwide and U.S. Datacenter Census. It provides a census of worldwide datacenters by size, sophistication, and ownership. It assesses the short-term, midterm, and lo...

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Analyst Location

United States

Coverage

Cloud computing, Big data

Regions

Worldwide, North America

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Big Data, Analytics and Cognitive, Cloud, IDC Predictions, Infrastructure, Internet of Things (IoT), IT Executive Programs Analyst Team, Virtualization