Episode Archive

103 episodes of DataCentric since the first episode, which aired on December 6th, 2018.

  • Nutanix .NEXT Day 1 Recap: All About the Announcements

    Episode  |  May 8th, 2019  |  Season 2019  |  19 mins 8 secs
    .next, conference, hci, nutanix

    The first day of Nutanix .NEXT has come and (nearly) gone. Matt & Steve talk about their impressions of the day, Nutanix's place in the software-defined world, and the amazing energy flowing through the convention center.

  • Special Dell Tech World Day 3 Recap: What'd we Learn?

    Episode  |  May 1st, 2019  |  Season 2019  |  12 mins 40 secs
    data center, dell emc, dell technologies, servers, storage

    Dell 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.

  • Special Dell Tech World Day 2 Recap: Storage, Data, and a Server

    Episode  |  April 30th, 2019  |  Season 2019  |  23 mins 42 secs
    conference, dell emc, dell technologies, dell technologies world, will.i.am

    Day 2 of Dell Technologies World saw a flurry of product announces in storage, data protection, HCI, VMWare, and even a new server. Hear all about that, and Matt & Steve's experiences on the show floor.

  • Special Dell Tech World Day 1 Recap: All About that Cloud!

    Episode  |  April 29th, 2019  |  Season 2019  |  14 mins 52 secs
    azure, conference, dell emc, dell tech world, microsoft, vmware

    Day one of Dell Technologies World 2019 has just concluded, and Matt & Steve provide a quick recap of the day's events, from serving humanity to VMWare everywhere.

  • April 11, 2019: Intel Throws a Party + Storage News + More!

    Episode  |  April 11th, 2019  |  Season 2019  |  50 mins
    cascade lake, datacenter, enterprise, information technology, intel, it, lenovo, optane, processor, pure storage, servers, storage, xeon

    Intel throws a coming-out party for it's new Cascade Lake Xeons and Optane DC Persistent Memory, enabling a whole new slew of high-performance servers, while also setting the stage for a disruption in storage and in-memory compute. Where does AMD fit into this new world? Is there other data center news? Of course! Excelero partners with Lenovo, Pure acquires NAS technology, and Matt contemplates trading in his Windows laptop for a Macbook.

  • April 2, 2019: NVIDIA in the DataCenter, Nutanix Everywhere, Open Compute, & more on Huawei

    Episode  |  April 2nd, 2019  |  Season 2019  |  44 mins 44 secs
    cloud, containers, data center, hci, huawei, hybrid-cloud, it, nutanix, nvidia, ocp, open compute

    This week Matt & Steve talk about the moves that NVIDIA is making into the data center,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 some non-political discussion on Huawei.

  • March 18 2019: Inside the latest Server & Storage Numbers + Recent DataCenter News

    Episode  |  March 18th, 2019  |  Season 2019  |  41 mins 6 secs
    cio, composable infrastructure, convergence, data fabric, datacenter, enterprise, hci, hitachi, huawei, hyperscale, idc, information technology, intel, it, lenovo, nvidia, processor, pure storage, servers, storage, technology

    The latest server and storage market numbers are out, and there are some big winners. And some big losers. Matt & Steve go all "inside-baseball" and talk about what it all means. They also touch on recent news around NVIDIA's Mellanox acquisition, Intel's CXL consortium, and the momentum of the Chinese technology providers.

  • March 7 2019: IBM Think! Plus earnings wrap-up for Lenovo and HPE

    Episode  |  March 7th, 2019  |  Season 2019  |  43 mins 58 secs
    arm, cio, composable infrastructure, convergence, data fabric, datacenter, enterprise, hci, hpe, ibm, information technology, it, lenovo, processor, servers, storage, technology

    Steve & Matt leave their impressions from IBM's recent Think event, plus they talk about the latest earnings from Lenovo and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. There's also coverage of ARM's new server core architecture, and the analysts continue their long-running conversation about multi-cloud in the enterprise.