Ideas International Promotes Tony Iams to Senior Vice President
Sydney, Australia - February 24, 2009
New York-based senior technology analyst Tony Iams has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Australian information technology research and analysis company, Ideas International (ASX:IDE). Iams will lead the US office and set the organisation's research direction.
Stephen Bowhill, Ideas International CEO, attributes the promotion to Iams' dedication and commitment to Ideas International (IDEAS), his clear leadership skills and efforts as well as his numerous achievements. "Tony is an acknowledged expert and experienced speaker on virtualisation, operating systems software and the IT challenges that enterprise organisations are facing," said Bowhill. "As well as being a recognised industry commentator, and leading the research agenda, Tony is building exciting research tools, like our Collaborative Product Evaluations, which help us provide structured guidance on more qualitative research subjects such as software and virtualisation."
Anticipating profound changes that will have a similar impact on the IT industry to the introduction of the original PC nearly 30 years ago, Iams knows that understanding the full impact of these rapidly progressing technical developments can be challenging.
Iams said, "My goal is to enhance the coordination of the pricing and performance research of our teams in Australia and the UK with the technical research of our US team. Together we will implement a structured and disciplined plan to bridge IDEAS' in-depth analysis of key emerging technologies with the exposure of business value that technology produces."
"The world of IT will look totally different in 2010 than it did in 2007," said Iams. "With its strong base of expertise and data around pricing, performance, and functionality of data centre technologies, IDEAS is in a unique position to put these key trends into perspective, and to summarise their impact."
About Ideas International
IDEAS is the leading global supplier of comparative intelligence on enterprise IT infrastructure. Servicing both IT vendors and large-scale IT users, IDEAS’ products focus on: servers; storage; virtualization and consolidation; and software and infrastructure services. IDEAS’ online products are backed by expert industry analysts who can also deliver specialized advisory and consulting services.
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Senior Analyst and new SVP Ideas International, Tony Iams:
The IT industry is undergoing profound change, which may have a similar impact on the IT industry to the introduction of the original PC nearly 30 years ago. The world of IT will look totally different in 2010 than it did in 2007."
In the short term, the economic downturn may force organisations to rethink their investments as they stretch out technology replacement cycles as long as possible in order to delay procurement costs. However, the growth in demand for computing resources shows no signs of slowing down.
As the web becomes ever more integrated into business and consumer activities, vast new computing resources will be needed to host web applications with boundless, Internet-scale user populations.
A number of technology trends are rapidly converging to redefine the way in which these computing needs will be met.
- Industry-standard suppliers such as Intel and AMD are substantially increasing their processor capabilities by introducing refinements such as 64-bit processing, multi-core designs, and virtualisation hardware.
- Many organisations are standardising on industry-standard operating systems such as Windows and Linux.
- Virtualisation technology is becoming a standard part of IT infrastructures, not just for servers, but also storage, networks, and desktops.
- As virtualisation takes hold, organisations will likely start to entrust some of their workloads to external cloud computing infrastructures.
