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.

Talking Data Protection with Arcserve CTO Oussama El-Hilali & VP of Strategic Partnerships Clark Brown

Episode  |  October 6th, 2019  |  Season 2019  |  30 mins 14 secs

arcserver, backup, cyber-resilience, data center, data protection, enterprise it

Data Protection has long stopped being about just backup and recovery. In this age of rampant cyber-attacks, data protection has become a strategic element of every data center's operations plan. Moor Insights & Strategy analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell talk about the data protection market with Arcserve CTO Oussama El-Hilali and Arcserve Vice President Clark Brown.

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.

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.