In this episode, Dominique talks about what she sees with enterprise customers undergoing digital transformation, and how to find an on-prem/off-prem balance that drives best results for the business.
Equally interesting is Dominique’s perspective as a woman’s journey through the tech ranks – from engineer to executive.

Tune in for what may be our most interesting podcast yet!

Dominique’s profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominiquebastos/
Persistent Systems: https://www.persistent.com/

Special Guests: Dominique Bastos and Matt Kimball.

Jason brings Matt & Steve up-to-speed on what’s happening in the world of edge computing in a wide-ranging conversation about standards (or the lack of), the evolution of edge architectures, the fragmented edge market, the colliding worlds of IT & OT, and how Stratus helps its customers navigate through this confusing world.

There is a whole lot packed into this hour-long discussion, but it's invaluable for anyone working in edge today.

00:00 Kick-it Off
01:25 Catching up with Strategy: Product updates, SGH Acquisition
03:57 Pivoting from Fault-Tolerance to the Edge
08:48 It’s all about Resilience!
11:00 How edge is evolving
13:00 Fragmentation at the edge
16:21 Containerization & Cloud-Native at the edge
20:48 Simplifying the edge control-plane while delivering QoS
23:20 Revisiting 2 Different Worlds as IT & OT Converge
30:10 Security at the Edge
37:22 General attitudes impacting edge deployments
41:14 Where’s Stratus focused in the near-term?
45:14 Importance of the overall solution stack
50:11 Wrapping-Up
50:26 Done

Special Guest: Jason Andersen.

Matt & Steve are joined by an expert in this field, Zac Smith. Zac is the co-founder of Packet, and the current head of Edge and Metal Infrastructure at Equinix.

There isn't much talk about Equinix -- this conversation quickly focuses on how data center architecture is evolving, embracing various alternate consumption models. Cloud, hosted, consuption-based, and other emergent models are supplementing and, in many cases, replacing traditional on-prem infrastructure.

This is one you don't want to miss.

00:00 Fade In.
01:00 Introducing Zac Smith
02:00 Zac's different thinking about the data center world and the founding of Packet
05:37 Shifting, often generational, views of data center and workload management
07:15 It's all about the workload: why servers may not ever fully commodtize
09:35 Where do providers like Equinix fit in data center architecture?
16:09 The Rise of ARM-based processors in the data center
20:08 What IT customers are choosing the ARM path, and why?
24:05 Open compute initiatives, and the Linux Foundation's Open19 Project
31:30 The Sustainabilty Impact
35:55 Consumption-based infrastructure's place in data center architecture
39:08 Fade to black.

Special Guest: Zac Smith.

This episode finds hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, principal analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, talking to Todd Brannon, Cisco's Senior Director of Product Marketing for Cloud Platforms, about the challenges of managing IT resources in a multi-cloud world.

The guys talk about the challenges of managing a mixed cloud/on-prem, the adoption (or lack of adoption!) of autonmous infrastructure,

00:00 Podcast Opens
02:44 Introducing Cisco's Todd Brannon
04:58 What are the biggest cloud-related challenges facing IT today?
07:30 Solving the common needs of enterprise IT
12:25 Cisco Intersight Services for Cloud
22:51 Autonomous Infrastructure
26:05 We've talked a lot about software -- what's happening in the hardware space?
34:35 Cloud is one thing -- what's happening at the Edge?
39:50 Roll Credits!

Special Guest: Todd Brannon.

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.

This episode goes deep into the value that Arm9 and Neoverse bring to data center workloads, as hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell talk with Arm's Brian Jeff, Senior Director of Product Management for Arm's infrastructure business.

The group has a wide-ranging conversation about what's motivated some of the architectural enhancements delivered in Arm9, the shifting enterprise landscape, and where Neoverse fits into it all.

Special Guest: Brian Jeff.

Links:

• Matt's Forbes Column on the Arm Neoverse Launch — Arm’s Neoverse microarchitecture focuses on supporting the needs of the datacenter, This includes everything from high throughput switching to low power radio access networks, from general-purpose computing to high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). Think of Neoverse as taking the underlying ArmV9 architecture and tailoring it for the datacenter through modifications and specific instructions.

00:00 Let's start
03:01 Arm-based processors in the cloud: where's it going? Does it impact Arm server adoption? Will there be Arm-based general purpose servers?
14:15 Forget about Arm, what about AMD? Will they hit 15% server share in 2021?
18:15 Intel has had a monopoly in the nascent 3D XPOINT (Intel Optane) business, despite co-inventing the technology with Micron. Does that change in 2021?
20:50 Nutanix gained new private equity backing in 2020, changing CEOs, and positioning itself for.... something... in 2021. One of our hosts think its an HPE acquistion.
25:31 How impactful will the various OEM's as-a-service offerings be in 2021? Let the boys tell you.
30:20 A contrary prediction about the future of Nvidia's quest to absorb Arm
35:37 In-person conferences will come roaring back. Or not.

That's it! Tune in wherever you find podcasts.

The group seems to touch on every from the on-going "generational shift" of IT buyers, the cloudification of IT, edge computing, open standards, the impact of COVID-19 on IT, and much, much more.

Special Guest: Jonathan Seckler.

00:00 - 03:50 Virtual Conference Life
03:51 - 07:23 Twitter is hacked & the popular and tech press have very different spins on the story
07:24 - 14:24 Dell Technologies is "exploring" spinning out VMware: will they? and what's it really mean if they do?
14:25 - 29:35 A hodgepodge of ARM news as Apple announces, AWS Graviton performance numbers start coming out, and more
29:36 - 39:11 How relevant is the hardware platform in today's software defined world?
39:11 - 46:24 Microsoft endorses Citrix for Azure remote desktop.
46:25 - that's all!

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.

It's a great conversation with unexpected insight about the long-term impact of Kubernetes on IT architecture. HPE is helping to shape that future as it brings the power of MapR and BlueData into the fold. Listen in.

Thank you to Robert for taking the time to join us this week.

Special Guest: Robert Christiansen.

Links:

• HPE Unveils Container Platform

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 third-party storage solutions, while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus takes on new cloud capabilties. There's more, but you need to tune in and let Eric tell you all about it.

And did you know that IBM used to have a corporate song? Of course you did. Given the strong IBM slant on this podcast, we'll close out with a rendition that we snagged from IBM's corporate archive site.

Listen in!

Times

00:30 IBM Closes the Red Hat acquistion
07:10 IBM Releases new Storage Offerings
09:35 IBM Storage CMO Eric Herzog joins to talk about what IBM is releasing today
23:09 IIAR industry analyst awards
25:43 IBM's traditional corporate song: Ever Onward!

Special Guest: Eric Herzog.

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 enterprise IT, the forces behind the trend towards a software-defined infrastructure, the current market, and Lenovo's offerings in the space.

If you care about software-defined infrastructure (and if you work IT, then you should!), you should tune in!

Special Guests: Patrick Moorhead and Shekhar Mishra.

If you follow Data Center technology, as well as the players behind the what's happening, you'll be in good company with Matt KImball and Steve McDowell from Moor Insights & Strategy and the DataCentric Podcast.

Timeline

00:30 - 08:00 NVIDIA GTC Wrap-Up: NVIDIA heads into the Enterprise
08:00 - 11:00 Impact of Containers on Data Center management frameworks
11:00 - 21:20 Nutanix Investor Day Wrap-Up: NTNX takes aim
21:20 - 30:00 Open Compute Summit: Why it still matters.
30:00 - 42:30 Huawei: A Serious Player, despite all the geopolitical noise around the company
42:30 - 44:44 Senseless Banter

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

*Here are some links to explore, should you want to go deeper: *

We've done a lot of writing about this episode's topics. You can find a round-up of articles from Moor Insights & Strategy on Amazon re:Invent at the summary page here:
http://www.moorinsightsstrategy.com/moor-insights-strategy-analyst-coverage-at-amazon-com-aws-reinvent-2018/

Matt also recently published a piece with nice backstory on ARM in the enterprise for Forbes:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2018/10/17/arm-launches-neoverse-five-things-to-know/

Matt also talked about HPE Composable Infrastructure with the good folks over at datacentertechnology.com, while Steve talked to them about Amazon's new Glacier Deep Storage offering and it's potential impact on tape backup:

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/hewlett-packard-enterprise/hpe-s-composable-infrastructure-no-longer-limited-synergy-hardware
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/amazon/aws-glacier-deep-archive-tape-killer

Steve recently published a white-paper describing HPE’s intelligent storage efforts gave an inteview about Amazon's new Glacier Deep Storage:
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/resources/storage/moor-insights-intelligent-storage.html