DataCentric
105 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWelcome to the DataCentric podcast, where we delve into the latest developments in information technology, offering insights into its intricate workings and broader implications.
Hosted by Steve McDowell, Senior Analyst at NAND Research, our podcast explores new technologies, influential trends, and provides expert commentary on the forward trajectory of the technology industry.
Join us as we navigate the complex landscape of IT. Whether you're an industry professional or simply curious about the future of technology, DataCentric is your trusted source for informed discourse and forward-thinking analysis.
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Understanding the Enterprise Infrastructure Marketing in 2H 2020
September 04, 2020 16:00 - 43 minutes - 48.9 MBIt's been a big couple of weeks of earnings from all of the major enterprise infrastructure market players, including NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell Technologies, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. IBM, Cisco, Lenovo and others all disclosed earlier last month. On the software-defined side, there's Vmware, Nutanix, and a whole lot of Bain Capital. High-end kit is up, mid-range everything (servers & storage) are soft, while as-a-service & software-defined all seem to be solid. Is the IT world shi...
Inside the Server Market with Dell Technologies' Jonathan Seckler
August 17, 2020 16:00 - 40 minutes - 47.7 MBThe server market is rapidly changing. It's less about the speeds and feeds of your hardware, and much more about the capabilities required to support critical workloads. From software-defined to edge, Dell Technologies director of server marketing join Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell in a wide-ranging discussion on the shifting landscape of servers. The group seems to touch on every from the on-going "generational shift" of IT buyers, the cloudification of IT, edge computing, open standards,...
Inside Earnings: Intel, AMD, & IBM all Beat-the-Street
August 03, 2020 20:00 - 51 minutes - 60.7 MBEarnings for 2Q have started rolling in, with IBM, AMD, and Intel all early reporters from the Data Center world. There's solid financial news for all three, but each with different industry-level impacts. Hosts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell, both from Moor Insights & Strategy, talk about what it all means. Intel delivered solid numbers, but were punished by both guidance and disclosure of some execution problems in rolling out its next generation, 7nm, processors. Solid numbers for the ...
News Roundup: Twitter Hacked, VMware (maybe) spinning out of Dell, & does hardware still matter?
July 28, 2020 16:00 - 46 minutes - 75.6 MBIt's a potpourri episode as Moor Insights & Strategy data center analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell round-up of the past few week's news: twitter was hacked, Dell Technologies says that it might spin VMware out, ARM gets yet more traction, and does a software-defined datacenter make hardware irrelevant? All this, and more, on this edition of DataCentric. 00:00 - 03:50 Virtual Conference Life 03:51 - 07:23 Twitter is hacked & the popular and tech press have very different spins on th...
Edge Computing: IT meets Industry
June 29, 2020 18:00 - 51 minutes - 94.7 MBEnterprise IT is rapidly moving towards the edge, but what does that really mean? There are extremes to what defines edge. Edge can describe the safe environment of a remote branch office, or maybe the air-conditioned cushiness of a remote telco hut. Then there's the extreme edge, where the lines between IT and OT blur, and anything can go. Jason Andersen, Stratus Technologies' vice president of business line management, joins Moor Insights & Strategy senior technology analysts Matt Kimba...
Q1 2020: All About Software-Defined and As-a-Service
June 12, 2020 18:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBWhat did we learn about datacenter infrastructure from the latest batch of earnings? That’s it all about software-defined and as-a-service. Data center hardware sales were down across the board, while the bright spots for the quarter landed on Nutanix and VMware, who showed particularly strong growth in is VSAN and NSX segments. This, while the traditional OEMs saw boosts in their respective service-based offerings. Moor Insights & Strategy Industry analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowel...
Securing the Infrastructure Supply Chain
June 02, 2020 18:00 - 42 minutes - 71.8 MBYou don't always think about the security of your vendor's supply chain as a part of your organization's cybersecurity and compliance efforts -- but you should. Everything from ensuring the authenticity of components, all the way through the potential exploitation of systems & subsystems in-transit can cause enterprise's damage. This episode has hosts Steve McDowell and Matt Kimball, both senior analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, talking with John Grosso, Hewlett Packard Enterprise's vi...
Infrastructure Earnings during a Pandemic + AMD EPYC's Continued Traction
May 27, 2020 21:00 - 30 minutes - 46 MBIt's a strange time for infrastructure companies as we start seeing the first full-quarter earnings in this COVID-19 world. Hewlett Packard Enterprise & Lenovo are first up, and we're learning from them how to think about this market. At the same time, AMD's EPYC server CPU continues to gain traction, with new wins in HCI and Deep Learning. Join hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, both senior analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, as they digest it all. 01:08 Attending Virtual Confere...
Inside the new Dell EMC PowerStore Mid-Range Storage Solution w/ Dell's Caitlin Gordon
May 05, 2020 12:00 - 22 minutes - 38.2 MBDell Technologies shakes up the hot midrange storage market with the introduction of its long-anticipated offering: the Dell EMC PowerStore. Dell's vice president of productg marketing, Caitlin Gordon, joins hosts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell to talk through the vision of the new offering, as well as offering insights into some of the things that make this one unique -- things like an embedded hypervisor, in-the-box AI, new upgrade options, why this will be the last data migration Dell's c...
Infrastructure Management & Deployment in a Quarantined World, with Pure Storage's Shawn Rosemarin
April 27, 2020 14:00 - 34 minutes - 58.2 MBIT infrastructure needs maintenance, and, as we reconfigure for a remote workforce, it needs critical expansion. This is challenging in an environment where social distancing has become the norm. What does it take to deploy, maintain, and grow infrastructure in this environment? Pure Storage's VP of of World Wide Systems Engineering joins hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell to talk about this, as well as what Pure is doing to help out. The group talks about installation options, how infra...
HCI & vSAN with VMWare's Lee Caswell
April 13, 2020 16:00 - 42 minutes - 82.2 MBHCI has become a rare success story, a technology that continues to grow at 25-30% year-over-year. There isn't a technology company doing more to fuel that growth than VMware, with its leading vSAN solution. vSAN almost defines HCI, owning nearly 40% of the all HCI installations (with Nutanix hot on its heels with 27% of the market). The face of vSAN for VMware is Lee Caswell, and this week Lee joins Matt & Steve to talk about what's behind the growth of HCI as a technology, what's happe...
HCI & vSAN, with VMWare's Lee Caswell
April 13, 2020 16:00 - 42 minutes - 82.2 MBHCI has become a rare success story, a technology that continues to grow at 25-30% year-over-year. There isn't a technology company doing more to fuel that growth than VMware, with its leading vSAN solution. vSAN almost defines HCI, owning nearly 40% of the all HCI installations (with Nutanix hot on its heels with 27% of the market). The face of vSAN for VMware is Lee Caswell, and this week Lee joins Matt & Steve to talk about what's behind the growth of HCI as a technology, what's happe...
Cybersecurity in the age of the Intelligent Edge: A conversation with HPE and Aruba
March 26, 2020 14:00 - 52 minutes - 80.9 MBThe Intelligent Edge, encompassing "devices that aren't in the datacenter", is growing at a nearly exponential rate. This challenges how traditional IT thinks about managing intelligent infrastructure, especially at the intersection of IT and OT, forcing everyone to think just a little bit differently -- all of this as nearly every company is forging their own paths. DataCentric hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell are joined by two experts in this field: Jon Green, VP and Chief Security T...
Post-Earnings Enterprise Infrastructure Market, New ARM-based Ampere Server CPUs, & AMD Financial Day
March 09, 2020 18:00 - 48 minutes - 87.7 MBNow that we've seen earnings from all of the tier-one infrastructure players, hosts Steve McDowell & Matt Kimball talk about what the flat-to-down quarter means to the overall enterprise infrastructure market. There are earnings from Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Vmware, as well as other recent earnings announcements, that give us color. The HCI space is also continuing its hot streak, with VSAN delivering $900M in bookings to Vmware, while Nutanix also continues to grow at...
Edge Computing: New Announcements from DELL & HPE + News!
February 25, 2020 20:00 - 35 minutes - 67 MBDell Technologies releases new edge products, HPE drops a new micro-server for edge and SMB, and Lenovo announces earnings. What's it all mean? Where's it all fit? Moor Insights & Strategy technology analysts Matt Kimball and Server McDowell try to figure it all out. Timeline: 04:15 New Edge offerings from Dell Technologies 14:55 Huawei and the Edge 18:25 HPE Proliant Microserver Gen 10 23:24 New Entry-Level EPYC parts from AMD 24:12 Lenovo Earnings 34:29 Tidying Up
Storage-made-Simple with IBM's Eric Herzog
February 17, 2020 19:00 - 14 minutes - 25 MBOn the heels of a big set of announcements from IBM Storage, Eric Herzog, Chief Marketing Officer and VP of Worldwide Storage Channels for IBM, joins Moor Insights & Strategy senior technology analyst Steve McDowell for a conversation about what's new and different from IBM as the company both simplifies its non-mainframe storage offerings with top-to-bottom FlashSystem products, and continues its efforts to bring that simplicity to a hybrid-multicloud world. Matt Kimball is away this week ...
Earnings Galore: AMD & Intel + All the Cloud Guys (plus some VMware & Cisco)
February 06, 2020 20:00 - 24 minutes - 42.7 MBIt's been a busy few weeks on the earnings front, as Intel blows away all estimates, AMD does well enough, and the cloud wars continue to rage with Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, and Microsoft Azure. That, and both VMware and Cisco are back in the news. What's it all mean? Tune in and find out. 01:50 Is the VMWare multi-core license change really a big deal? 06:40 Intel Earnings recap 09:30 AMD Earnings 11:35 Lisa Su joins Cisco's board + what's going on with Cisco's server business? 16;...
Scale Computing CEO & Co-Founder Jeff Ready talks HCI
February 03, 2020 21:00 - 24 minutes - 47.9 MBScale Computing is a pioneer in HCI (inventing, in fact, the very term). The company has just come off a record year demonstrating 90% growth. They also recently showed off a full HCI cluster running on an Intel NUC. Scale's CEO and Co-Founder Jeff Ready joins us on this episode of DataCentric, where we talk about: The origins of Scale Computing, and HCI Where HCI fits into enteprise architecture Why HCI is a great fit for the edge, both as it exists today (ROBO, etc), as well as what wil...
Top 2020 DataCenter Trends
January 14, 2020 01:00 - 35 minutes - 57.3 MBIt's 2020, and that means a whole new set of predictions for the year! Join Moor Insights & Strategy technology analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell as they discuss what they believe will be the most impactful trends impacting data centers and IT architecture over the coming twelve months. 02:21 Silicon Architecture is no longer a buying critera for servers -- it's all about matching capabilities to workloads (whether x86 or ARM) 09:50 The Public Cloud providers will begin a cycle of ...
Big Trends from 2019
January 06, 2020 22:00 - 21 minutes - 36.4 MBIt's been an eventful year, but largely one setting chess pieces up for what's to come. Moor Insights & Strategy technology analysts Steve McDowell and Matt Kimball each give their top trends of the past year. Not to spoil it, but you can jump directly to the topics from the timeline below: 00:50 Silicon is Sexy Again! Whether we're talking about AMD, ARM, Ampere, NVIDIA, Intel, or one of the emerging players, we're talking about chips. 03:13 The Year of AI Enablement, both applications...
AWS ReInvent 2019 Wrap-Up
December 09, 2019 15:00 - 33 minutes - 15.6 MBAmazon's massive AWS ReInvent Conference is nearly overwhelming in its breadth and scope, with dozens of announcements spanning numerous areas, from ARM to AI to on-premises Outpost. Moor Insights & Strategy senior analysts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell help clear the path and talk about what the sum of it all really means to IT, as well as the rest of the technology industry.
Live with Arm's Mohamed Awad, VP Infrastructure LOB
November 19, 2019 17:00 - 38 minutes - 17.8 MBArm's Mohamed Awad, as VP in Arm's Infrastructure group, is front-and-center in their architecture's invasion into enterprise compute. Let's look at where ARM stands in the enterprise today: Nearly every tier-1 OEM has an Arm server offering Every major public cloud vendor offers Arm instances NVIDIA, Marvell, Fujitsu, & Ampere jointed announced an Arm-based Super Computer reference platform at SC19 this week As we look forward towards a 5G-enabled edge, Arm is finding itself ideally situa...
HPE's Container Platform with HPE Cloud Strategist Robert Christiansen
November 18, 2019 17:00 - 27 minutes - 12.4 MBAs Hewlett Packard Enterprise launches its bare-metal container platform at KubeCon this week, Moor Insights & Strategy analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell have a conversation with HPE VP and Chief Cloud Strategist Robert Christiansen. The guys talk about how HPE views cloud workloads, and how the power of Kubernetes and containers might just be the right answer for both cloud and edge. It's a great conversation with unexpected insight about the long-term impact of Kubernetes on IT arc...
November 2019 Event News Roundup: Microsoft Ignite, VMWorld Europe, NVIDIA GTC DC & More!
November 14, 2019 03:00 - 46 minutes - 33.3 MBIt's been a busy few weeks as the fall conference season hits its stride. In this episode, Moor Insights & Strategy analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell talk about it all: Microsoft Ignite, VMworld Europe, NVIDIA GTC DC announcements. There's also chip news as AMD delivers a stellar quarter, Intel has a benchmark oops (and then recovers), and lots of discussion of ARM and Edge. Join us for our unique perspective. Times: 00:00 Microsoft Ignite: Azure News 13:24 AMD’s stellar quarter ...
NetApp talks about Cloud Native, Containers, & HCI
November 07, 2019 20:00 - 36 minutes - 16.7 MBNetApp is about more than just about on-prem enterprise storage. They are changing with the industry as it embraces HCI, Cloud Native, and Kubernetes as part of the Data Fabric. This is critical to the company's strategy. We had the chance to sit separately with NetApp's SVP & GM of Cloud Native (which includes its Kubernetes/Containers activity) Anthony Lye to talk about how NetApp and its enterprise customers view that space, as well as how they are evolving from an "on-prem first" storag...
ARM TechCon 2019 Wrap-Up with Patrick Kennedy from Serve The Home
October 15, 2019 02:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBAs ARM TechCon 2019 wraps up in San Jose, hosts Steve McDowell and Matt Kimball from Moor Insights & Strategy are joined by Patrick Kennedy of Serve the Home in a wide-ranging discussion of the entire microprocessor market, and where ARM fits in. Here's a general timeline for the discussion, though the topics overlap, so you owe it to yourself to listent to the entire thing. 00:00 Intros 02:20 Big Themes & Announcements from TechCon 03:50 Patrick's views of TechCon from a server, stora...
Talking Data Protection with Arcserve CTO Oussama El-Hilali & VP of Strategic Partnerships Clark Brown
October 07, 2019 02:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBIn the data era, data protection is everything. Cyber resilience can mean life and death for companies that rely on intelligence to drive business. So what’s more important? Securing your organization? Or being able to quickly recover from cyberattacks without having to pay ridiculous ransom amounts to a group of hackers in Eastern Europe? The answer is “both.” In this Datacentric podcast, Steve and Matt speak with Arcserve about its partnership with Sophos and how this integrated solution c...
News Round-Up: RedHat Summit, Pure Accelerate, Dell's EPYC Server,
September 25, 2019 20:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBA catch-up podcast as Moor Insights & Strategy technology analysts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell run through a very news-filled September. The guys recap Red Hat Summit, Pure Accelerate, and also hit product announcements from Dell EMC, IBM, and Huawei, bemoan the dwindling quality of conference SWAG, and more. Much, much, more: Red Hat might be owned by IBM, but its about helping enterprises manage digital transformation, focused on where "opportunity and innovation intersect". Steve's a...
Talking with Coz: Pure Origins and the Future of Storage
September 12, 2019 19:00 - 51 minutes - 47 MBWant to hear a good origin story? Or about the future of data? You're in luck. As Pure Storage heads into its annual Pure Accelerate Conference in Austin next week, it's looking to celebrate its 10th anniversary. 10 years in which Pure has grown from a seed-stage start-up to a ~$4B publically traded company. And Pure continues to be a disrupter in the storage industry. Given this milestone, we thought we'd step back and talk to the man behind the all-flash storage revolution, Pure's Co-Fo...
VMWorld 2019 Wrap-Up
September 06, 2019 17:00 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBVMworld, which has become ground-zero for setting the direction for IT infrastructure, just wrapped up in San Francisco. Attended by over 21,000(!) people, it's become one the largest tech conferences in the world. This year the dominant themes were all about Containers and Clouds, with product announcements touching every aspect of the edge-to-core-to-cloud world. Tune in as Moor Insights & Strategy senior datacenter analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell talk how VMware has become the...
Talking with Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo
August 29, 2019 20:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBWhat's the secret of Pure Storage's success? Having pushed the industry into the All-Flash era, they now find themselves growing 30%/year and landing alone as the only storage vendor showing growth in this quarter's round of earnings. Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo joins the DataCentric podcast to talk about both what's behind Pure's current success, and how he envisions a future where "data" is a utility. Charlie gives us his insight on: What fuels Pure's current success. Where Pur...
AMD Releases an Epyc ROME while Lenovo delivers very nice earnings
August 21, 2019 18:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBMoor Insights & Strategy analysts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell are back from their various summer adventures and are easing back into the podcast saddle by asking the question: Is AMD's new Rome server part really "all that"? Should IT buyers care? And if you do, should you buy a server from Lenovo, who's continuing a stellar run of solid execution? All that, and more, on the newest DataCentric. 00:00 AMD's EPYC Rome server launch: How does it stack up? Is Intel really being threatened?...
IBM Closes Red Hat Acquisition + Releases New Storage Offerings
July 10, 2019 19:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBIt's been a big week for IBM. The company closed its acquisition of Red Hat, while also expanding its storage offerings. We bring in IBM's Storage group CMO Eric Herzog to tell us all about the new storage offerings. For Eric, it's all about Applications, Workloads, and Use Cases, but with a strong focus on data protection and Big Data/AI. Keeping with that theme, IBM Storage releases a massive update to its Spectrum Discover tool for big data and AI, which now supports a broad swath of ...
July 2 2019: HCI Market Share Numbers + Wrapping up HPE Discover
July 02, 2019 21:45 - 27 minutes - 31.5 MBHCI market share numbers for Q1 2019 are in and, boy, have things changed! Nutanix slides while Dell EMC holds dominance in branded systems, but isn't that part of Nutanix's strategy? Shifting to less branded, more partner/OEM sales? That, plus we recap the big themes from the recent HPE Discover Conference. All that, and more, from Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, technology analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy. 3:26 HPE Discover recap -- it's Everything-as-a-Service 16:00 HCI Market C...
Cyber-Security with HPE's Bob Moore: Live from HPE Discover
June 24, 2019 14:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBDuring this wide-ranging half-hour discussion recorded live at the 2019 HPE Discover in Las Vegas, hosts Steve McDowell and Matt Kimball talk to HPE's Director of Server Software and Product Security, Bob Moore, about the insidious attack vectors that are emerging. This covers everything from firmware attacks to supply chain interceptions, along with the growth of mafia-like organizations that are driving attacks at an unprecedented scale. We also talk about how the industry is helping IT re...
Converged Infrastructure with HPE's Gary Thome: Live from HPE Discover
June 19, 2019 16:15 - 17 minutes - 12.4 MBJoining the podcast this week is Gary Thome, HPE's vice president and chief engineer within the Converged Datacenter Infrastructure business. Moor Insights & Strategy analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell talk to Gary to gain a deeper understanding of what converged infrastructure is, and how it fits into modern IT architecture. It's a fascinating conversation that will help you better understand what's happening in this new world Thank you to Gary for taking the time to talk to us, and ...
Live from HPE Discover: Announcements! Themes! Fun in Las Vegas with HPE!
June 19, 2019 13:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBHPE Discover kicks off with an overwhelming list of themes focused around software-defined, multi-cloud, intelligent edge, and, of course, the stars of the show: Storage and HCI. Hosts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell provide a high-level recap of all the happenings, and contextualize the announcements. You won't want to miss it! HPE Launches Primera high-end storage. SimpliVity gets two new offerings + now supports HPE InfoSight Composable Infrastructure A "cloudless" furture? And more!
June 10, 2019: Quarterly Server Numbers! Dell Tech Earnings! What's happening at Nutanix? And Computex!
June 10, 2019 17:00 - 41 minutes - 47.1 MBIt's been a newsworthy week in the world of data center. IDC released server numbers that validate what the recent spate of earnings has told us. The market's down from last year, but there are still winners and losers, and you don't want to get caught on the wrong side of that line! Even in the face of an uncertain server market, Dell Technologies released positive earnings. Matt & Steve go into thiose Is Nutanix heading towards the rocks, or just experiencing natural transition pains? N...
Inside IBM Storage with Eric Herzog, CMO & VP WW Storage Channels
June 04, 2019 00:00 - 38 minutes - 44.1 MBThis episode of the DataCentric Podcast has co-host Steve McDowell talking with Eric Herzog. Eric, a long-time veteran of the storage world, is the Chief Marketing Officer and VP WW Storage Channels for IBM Storage. In a wide-ranging conversation, Eric offers up IBM's vision of what's important in storage. Not to give away the game, but it's all about applications, workloads, and use-cases. IBM Storage is laser focused on delivering storage technologies (hardware and software solutions) aga...
May 28, 2019: Earnings Extravaganza! HPE! Pure Storage! NetApp! Plus China, Huawei, Lenovo, and More!
May 28, 2019 04:00 - 42 minutes - 48.4 MBLast week was a big week for earnings, with Hewlett Packard Enterprise beating the street and providing some intriguing commentary in their conference call, Pure Storage misses its number while putting up great growth numbers, and NetApp is clearly struggling. All that, along with good discussion of Lenovo, plus grossly uneducated musings on China & Huawei. Looking to jump to the part you're interested in? Here's where things line up: 1:00 Themes across all earnings: this there an elongat...
May 23, 2019: Recapping Lenovo Accelerate
May 23, 2019 20:00 - 55 minutes - 63.7 MBRecorded live from Lenovo Accelerate in Orlando, FLA, hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell wrap up their coverage of the event. They talk servers, storage, edge, networking, Lenovo's place in the world, and touch on the overall vibe of the event.
Lenovo Accelerate Day 2: Talking HCI & Software Defined with Lenovo
May 14, 2019 19:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBWe're podcasting live from Lenovo Accelerate in Orlando, and there are special guests! Shekhar Mishra, Director of Product Marketing for Software Defined Datacenter at Lenovo, and Patrick Moorhead, founder and principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy join hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell in an interesting and informative discussion of the impact of software-defined infrastructure, HCI, and cloud on enterprise IT. The group talks about the value of a flexible infrastructure for ente...
Lenovo Accelerate Day 1: Lenovo Enters with Strong Momentum
May 14, 2019 13:00 - 12 minutes - 8.39 MBLenovo's data center group, under the leadership of Kirk Skaugen, is on fire, outgrowing the market. The company is exhibiting stellar growth in server, top-tier peformanance in HPC, disrupting the capacity-on-demand market, innovating in client, and is targeting edge computing. Join hosts Matt and Steve as they recap Lenovo Accelerate, the company's premier event for its enterprise customers, today talking about what they learned at the kick-off, and what they hope to learn over their next...
Nutanix .NEXT Day 2: The Customer Experience
May 10, 2019 06:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBNutanix .NEXT hosted nearly 7,000 IT professionals -- Matt & Steve managed to get one to talk about his experiences deploying Nutanix HCI in an enterprise environment. Join hosts Matt Kimball, Steve McDowell as they talk to special guest Drew Harris, who is Vice President of IT Operations at the Cosmopolitan Casino in Las Vegas to hear about the reality of modern IT colliding with HCI. It's an interesting chat about the complexities of HCI in the real world, with a few interesting digression...
Nutanix .NEXT Day 1 Recap: All About the Announcements
May 09, 2019 00:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBNutanix .NEXT 2019 kicks off in Anaheim CA, where nearly 7,000 IT professionals gather to hear Nutanix's vision of software-defined multi-cloud world. Included in that 7,000 are hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, analysts with Moor Insights & Strategy. Nutanix has become the dominant challenger in the software-defined datacenter world. That's not lost on Steve & Matt, who offer up their overall impressions of the event so far, the great energy surrounding .NEXT, and the ambitious vision...
Special Dell Tech World Day 3 Recap: What'd we Learn?
May 02, 2019 01:00 - 12 minutes - 8.7 MBDell Tech World day 3 was a day of closure, better coffee, and smuggled bacon. Hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell talk about their key takeaways in this short recap of what was a great event. Storage. Servers. Edge. VMWare. HCI/CI. And much, much more.
Special Dell Tech World Day 2 Recap: Storage, Data, and a Server
May 01, 2019 03:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBDell EMC released a flurry of product announcements targeted at the enterprise. New Midrange Storage. New PowerMax storage. Dell joins the Storage-on-Demand world with offerings that span on- and off-prem. Add to that new Dell Latitude laptops, networking branding, VMware cloud management tools... the list goes on and on. Moor Insights & Strategy data center analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell give you their quick take on it all on this special recap edition of the DataCentric Podcast.
Special Dell Tech World Day 1 Recap: All About that Cloud!
April 30, 2019 03:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBDay one of Dell Technologies World 2019 has just concluded, and Matt & Steve from Moor Insights & Strategy provide a quick recap of the day's events, from serving humanity to VMWare everywhere. The first day of Dell Tech World usually lays out the major themes that we should expect to hear through the four days of the conference, before the more product-focused announcements kick in on Tuesday. This year it's all about Dell Technologies being a global leader, and taking that leadership ser...
April 11, 2019: Intel Throws a Party + Storage News + More!
April 11, 2019 19:00 - 50 minutes - 57.2 MBIn this episode of the DataCentric podcast, hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell (both from Moor Insights & Strategy) go deep on Intel's DataCentric Innovation Day, where Intel formally launches its new Cascade Lake Xeons, while also opening the kimono on Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory. Optane promises to be disruptive to storage and how the industry thinks about in-memory compute. The OEMs community has been waiting for all of this, and there are a bunch of new products on the way. ...
April 2, 2019: NVIDIA in the DataCenter, Nutanix Everywhere, Open Compute, & more on Huawei
April 02, 2019 04:45 - 44 minutes - 51.2 MBThis week Matt & Steve talk through some of what they learned at recent industry events, including the moves that NVIDIA is making into the data center, some discussion of containers in the enterprise, a brief wrap-up from Nutanix's investor conference in New York, some light-thinking following Matt's first missed Open Compute Summit in a decade, and a bit of non-political discussion on Huawei. If you follow Data Center technology, as well as the players behind the what's happening, you'll b...