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Steve Conway
Research Vice President, High Performance Computing

Team: Big Data/Analytics
Directions 2012 (U.S) Participating Analysts
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Steve Conway, Research Vice President in IDC's High Performance Computing group, plays a major role in directing and implementing HPC research related to the worldwide market for technical servers and supercomputers. A 25-year veteran of the HPC and IT industries, Mr. Conway authors key IDC studies, reports and white papers, helps organize and advance the HPC User Forum, and provides thought leadership and practical guidance for users, vendors and other members of the HPC community.

Before joining IDC, Mr. Conway was vice president of corporate communications and investor relations for Cray Inc. He was also a divisional leader for SGI and headed corporate communications and analyst relations for Cray Research and CompuServe Corporation. Mr. Conway had a 12-year career in university teaching and administration at Boston University and Harvard University. A former Senior Fulbright Fellow, he holds bachelor's and master's degrees in German from Columbia University and a master's in comparative literature from Brandeis University, where he also completed doctoral coursework and exams.

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NetApp Releases E-Series Infrastructure to Address HPC and Big Data Use Cases
Chirag Dekate, Ph.D., Steve Conway
Mar 2013 - Doc # lcUS24021513      IDC Link
The lines between Big Data, complex analytics, and data-intensive simulation continue to blur, but one thing is crystal clear. Storage infrastructures are rapidly becoming mission-critical focal points in Big Data ecosystems, especially for ...
Xyratex Acquires Lustre Assets from Oracle
Steve Conway, Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D.
Feb 2013 - Doc # lcUS23956213      IDC Link
On a recent trip to China, IDC's HPC team asked the head of a large Chinese HPC center how he dealt with so many users who were brand new to HPC. He answered, "New to HPC is fairly easy. New to Lustre is hard." IDC's worldwide end-user rese ...

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Worldwide Technical Computing Server 2013–2017 Forecast
Chirag Dekate, Ph.D., Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Steve Conway
May 2013 - Doc # 241154      Market Analysis
This study presents an overview of IDC's forecast for the technical server market for the 2013–2017 period. 2010, 2011, and 2012 were strong recovery years for the HPC technical computing market, with 10.3%, 8.4%, and 7.7% year-over-year ...
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Supercomputers Exceed 50% of the HPC Server Market in 2012
Chirag Dekate, Ph.D., Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Steve Conway
Apr 2013 - Doc # 240426      Market Analysis
This IDC study centers on highlighting key trends observed over a period of three years from IDC's worldwide HPC server tracker that is updated quarterly. IDC has observed a major shift in revenue toward the higher end of the HPC ecosyst ...
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Appearances

IDC at ISC 2013
Leipzig, Germany
June 18, 2013

IDC Predictions 2013: High Performance Computing
Framingham, MA United States
February 26, 2013

IDC at SC12
Salt Lake City, UT United States
November 13, 2012

IDC at ISC2012
Hamburg, Germany
June 18, 2012