Trends to Watch in 2022

Episode  |  January 21st, 2022  |  Season 2022  |  38 mins 26 secs

amd, ampere computing, arm, ces, cio, data center, datacenter, enterprise, information technology, intel, it, pcie, processor, semiconductors, servers, storage

Hosts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell kick off 2022 with a discussion on what to watch in the world of enterprise infrastructure during 2022. This is a wide-ranging conversation covering everything from AMD and ARM in the server market, to PCIe 4.0, and even some of the goings-on at this month's Consumer Electronics Show. Tune in!

AMD & Intel Earnings: What's it mean for the server market?

Episode  |  January 29th, 2021  |  Season 2021  |  24 mins 17 secs

advanced micro devices, amd, data center, earnings, intel, server

Both Intel and AMD released earnings last week, with Intel's Data Center Group sliding a little bit, while AMD's server fortunes rise. What's it mean for the enterprise server market overall? And how is 2021 starting to shape up? Hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell talk about it on this episode of DataCentric.

Architecting a Flexible & Resilient Data Center

Episode  |  November 8th, 2020  |  Season 2020  |  49 mins 12 secs

broadcom, brocade, data center, enterprise storage, fibre channel, storage networking

The events of the past year have taught us a valuable lesson: unexpected change is going to happen, and that change requires IT organizations to quickly respond. Data centers built on a solid foundation of fast, flexible, secure, and resilient infrastructure are the ones poised to adapt and keep the business moving forward. This episode brings in storage infrastructure experts from Broadcom's Brocade division and IBM's storage group.

Inside Modern Flash Storage Technologies

Episode  |  November 8th, 2020  |  Season 2020  |  35 mins 7 secs

data center, enterprise, fibre channel, flash memory, ibm, nand, nvme, optane, qlc, scm, storage, tlc

Flash storage continues to evolve, with that evolution triggering changes in how we think about and deliver enterprise storage. Andy Walls, an IBM Fellow and IBM's CTO for its flash storage products, takes us through the big impactors affecting the flash storage industry, We hit on everything: QLC, NVMe-over-fabric, Server-Class Memory, and much more.

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.