On this episode of DataCentric, hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell are joined by VAST CMO and co-founder Jeff Denworth. Jeff walks us through the VAST Data story, tells us why AI is particularly challenging, and hints at where VAST might go in the future.

00:31 What was missing in the storage industry that needed to be created in 2016?
03:36 What did VAST do differently to shake up traditional storage architectures?
06:52 Jeff talks about some of the early wins at VAST
10:44 Jeff goes into VAST's momentum story
12:25 What's the average VAST customer looks like?
13:10 The VAST Customer Experience, validated by Gartner Peer Insights
13:52 Decoupling the Software from the Hardware with Gemini
17:49 What's the future look like for VAST?
20:15 AI's Impact on enterprise data
25:56 Matt & Steve Wrap-up
28:34 We're done!

Special Guest: Jeff Denworth.

Adam Glick, senior director of product marketing for Dell Technologies APEX, joins hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, senior technology analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, to talk about the trends and drivers that makes as-a-service attractive to IT shops of every size.

Adam also helps us navigate Dell's APEX offerings, taking us through what's being offered, as well as some of the thinking behind the various services. For Dell, APEX is all out delivering the desired outcomes to IT practitioners, without having to worry so much about the technology.

Whether you're intestered in Dell APEX, or just want to get a better handle on what as-a-service means to IT, this episode has you covered.

Topics

00:00 Opening
02:30 What's motivating the increasing adoption of as-a-service?
04:09 Delivering a 'cloud-like' experience, where outcomes out-weigh technology.
07:10 What is Dell APEX?
07:55 Dell is Delivering Software and Services on a scale not seen from Dell before
15:38 APEX and Equinix
18:15 Is there strong vertical pull for APEX?
19:45 How does Edge fit into this model?
25:53 Partner-centric engagement
28:34 AI/ML and APEX
31:56 What's Dell's Long-Term Vision in this space?
37:37 What does As-a-Service really mean to IT?
40:00 Over-and-Out!

Special Guest: Adam Glick.

NVIDIA's Tony Paikeday and IBM Storage's Doug O'Flaherty join host Steve McDowell to talk about how to think about the unique placed on the infrastructure by machine learning workloads.

Tony is the director of product marketing for the NVIDIA DGX portfolio of AI supercomputers and NVIDIA accelerated data science platform.

Doug is the global ecosystem leader for IBM Storage.

This episode is sponsored by NVIDIA.

Special Guests: Doug O'Flaherty and Tony Paikeday.

Jay Shenoy, vice president of technology for Hyve, joins hosts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell (each a senior technology analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy) to talk about what he's seeing in this space.

This wide-ranging conversation touches on seemingly everything: an overview of the hyperscale market; the software-defined data center; autonomous infrastructure; disaggregated storage and the increasing adoption of NVMe-over-fabric; the rise of ARM and accelerators; and even the impact of AI/ML in both training and inferernence use cases.

It's another great conversation on the rapid evolution of the enterprise data center.

Special Guest: Jayarama (Jay) Shenoy.

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
19:00 Intel’s Benchmark Oops
24:35 VMWorld Europe
27:00 ARM at the Edge & in the Datacenter
32:00 NVIDIA GTC DC + NV at the Edge
46:43 That's all!

Links:

• Five most significant announcements from Microsoft Ignite
• VMWorld Europe Announcements
• AMD Earnings
• Intel's Misleading Benchmarks?