Steve McDowell is chief analyst at NAND Research. Steve is a technologist with over 25 years of deep industry experience in a variety of strategy, engineering, and strategic marketing roles, all with the unifying theme of delivering innovative technologies into the enterprise infrastructure market.
Steve McDowell has hosted 103 Episodes.
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Cybersecurity in the age of the Intelligent Edge: A conversation with HPE and Aruba
Episode | March 26th, 2020 | Season 2020 | 52 mins 50 secs
aruba, cybersecurity, edge, hewlett packard enterprise, hpe, intelligent edge, ot
Deploying technology at the Intelligent Edge disrupts traditional IT thinking about devices, best practices, and security & compliance. Hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell are joined by Jon Green, VP and Chief Security Technologist and Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Company company, and Tim Ferrell, master cybersecurity architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
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Post-Earnings Enterprise Infrastructure Market, New ARM-based Ampere Server CPUs, & AMD Financial Day
Episode | March 9th, 2020 | Season 2020 | 48 mins 29 secs
amd, ampere, arm, cio, dell technologies, earnings, enterprise infrastructure, hci, hpe, it, server, storage, vmware
Now 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. Plus they talk a little HCI, delve into Ampere's new ARM-based monster 80-core server part, and detail some of the happenings out of AMD's recent Financial Analyst Day.
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Edge Computing: New Announcements from DELL & HPE + News!
Episode | February 25th, 2020 | Season 2020 | 35 mins 26 secs
amd, dell technologies, earnings, edge computing, hpe, huawei, lenovo
Dell 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.
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Storage-made-Simple with IBM's Eric Herzog
Episode | February 17th, 2020 | Season 2020 | 14 mins 25 secs
enterprise storage, ibm, ibm storage, interview
On 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.
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Earnings Galore: AMD & Intel + All the Cloud Guys (plus some VMware & Cisco)
Episode | February 6th, 2020 | Season 2020 | 24 mins 8 secs
amazon aws, amd, cisco, earnings, google cloud, intel, microsoft azure, vmware
It'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.
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Scale Computing CEO & Co-Founder Jeff Ready talks HCI
Episode | February 3rd, 2020 | Season 2020 | 24 mins 55 secs
edge, hci, interview, scale computing
Scale 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.
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Top 2020 DataCenter Trends
Episode | January 13th, 2020 | Season 2020 | 35 mins 46 secs
5g, acquistions, amazon aws, amd, arm, dell, edge, google cloud, hpe, intel, microsoft azure, x86
It'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.
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Big Trends from 2019
Episode | January 6th, 2020 | Season 2019 | 21 mins 22 secs
amazon, amd, arm, consumption-based computing, dell, hpe, intel, it, kubernetes, lenovo, trends
It'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.
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AWS ReInvent 2019 Wrap-Up
Episode | December 9th, 2019 | Season 2019 | 33 mins 58 secs
amazon, arm, aws, cloud, reinvent
Amazon's massive AWS ReInvent Conference is nearly overwhelming in its breadth and scope, with dozens of announcements spanning numerous areas. Moor Insights & Strategy analysts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell help clear the path and talk about what the sum of it all really means to IT (and the industry). Listen in.
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Live with Arm's Mohamed Awad, VP Infrastructure LOB
Episode | November 19th, 2019 | 38 mins 58 secs
arm, edge, enterprise, interview, sc19, server
Arm's Mohamed Awad, as VP in ARM's Infrastructure group, is front-and-center in their architecture's invasion into enterprise compute. Nearly every tier-1 OEM has an Arm server offering, every major public cloud vendor offers Arm instances, a Super Computer reference design was announced at SC19 this week, and Arm is finding itself ideally situated to play aggressively in the emerging edge-compute space. It's not about mobile processing anymore. Mohamed joins us to talk about what it all means, and where it's all going.
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HPE's Container Platform with HPE Cloud Strategist Robert Christiansen
Episode | November 18th, 2019 | Season 2019 | 27 mins 11 secs
cloud, containers, edge, hpe, kubernetes
Hewlett Packard Enterprise launched its bare-metal container platform at KubeCon this week. Matt & Steve are joined by HPE VP & Chief Cloud Strategist Robert Christiansen to 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. A great conversation.
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November 2019 Event News Roundup: Microsoft Ignite, VMWorld Europe, NVIDIA GTC DC & More!
Episode | November 13th, 2019 | Season 2019 | 46 mins 43 secs
ai, amd, arm, edge, ignite, intel, microsoft, nvidia, servers, storage, vmware, vmworld
It'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, plus AMD has a stellar quarter, Intel has a benchmark oops, and lots of discussion of ARM and Edge