News Roundup: Twitter Hacked, VMware (maybe) spinning out of Dell, & does hardware still matter?

Episode  |  July 28th, 2020  |  Season 2020  |  46 mins 27 secs

arm, citrix, cloud, data center, dell technologies, microsoft, vmware

It's a potpourri episode as Matt & Steve do a 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, Microsoft endorses Citrix, and does a software-defined datacenter make hardware irrelevant? All this, and more, on this edition of DataCentric.

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.

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.

IBM Closes Red Hat Acquisition + Releases New Storage Offerings

Episode  |  July 10th, 2019  |  Season 2019  |  27 mins 27 secs

cloud, ibm, red hat, storage

It's been a big week for IBM. The company closed its acquisition of Red Hat, while also expanding its storage offerings. Matt & Steve give their thoughts on what it all means. We also 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. All that, and more, on this episode of DataCentric.

Lenovo Accelerate Day 2: Talking HCI & Software Defined with Lenovo

Episode  |  May 14th, 2019  |  Season 2019  |  19 mins 41 secs

cloud, hci, lenovo, lenovo accelerate, sdi

We're podcasting live from Lenovo Accelerate in Orlando. Today Matt and Steve are joined by Shekhar Mishra, Director of Product Marketing for Software Defined Datacenter at Lenovo, and Patrick Moorhead, founder and principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. The group talks about the impact of software-defined infrastructure, HCI, and cloud on enterprise IT.

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.

Dec 6 2018: Recapping Amazon re:Invent & HPE Discover

Episode  |  December 6th, 2018  |  Season 2018  |  36 mins 45 secs

amazon, arm, aws, cloud, composable infrastructure, converged, data center, hci, hpe, information technology, server, storage

In the inaugural episode of the DataCentric podcast hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell go deep on the large number of datacenter-impacting announcements at Amazon’s premier cloud event re:Invent, including news of Amazon deploying their custom-built ARM parts, bringing cloud on-prem, and more.

The team also hits the highlights from HPE Discover in Madrid, where the focus was on edge computing, composable infrastructure and intelligent storage.