DataCentric - Episodes Tagged with “Data Center”

Trends to Watch in 2022

NAND Research — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, principal analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, kick off 2022 with a discussion on what to watch in the world of enterprise infrastructure during the upcoming year.

This is a wide-ranging conversation covering everything from AMD and ARM in the server market, alternative processor architectures, supply chain, PCIe 5.0, and even some of the goings-on at this month's Consumer Electronics Show.

00:00 Start the show!
01:40 The Server Market: AMD Server market share numbers, Intel's current situation, and the impact of supply chain disruptions
10:38 AMD and Intel introduce new client parts: how much of this bleeds over into the server space?
17:33 ARM in the Server Market: Is this just a hyperscaler phenomia? Will we see expansion in 2022?
27:50 Where does RISC-V Play?
30:40 Disrupting storage: VAST Data, PCIe 5, and does CXL-attached memory supplant Intel Optane?
36:19 Consumption-based infrastructure in 2022
38:24 Over-and-Out

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

NAND Research — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 10:00:00 -0500

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

NAND Research — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 13:00:00 -0500

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.

In this episode, Moor Insights & Strategy technology analyst Steve McDowell is joined by a group of storage infrastructure experts to talk about the fundamentals of a flexible cyber-resilient infrastructure.

AJ Casamento and Brian Larsen join from Broadcom, while Brian Sherman comes to us from IBM's Storage division.

The group talks about cyber-resilient architectures, autonomous infrastructure, and building a fast and flexible storage architecture to support it all.

Fibre Channel Gen 7, NVMe-over-FC, Intelligent Storage Systems, tiered storage, disaster recovery... it seems like the group hit on most of the topics that an IT practitioner needs to be aware of as we all look forward to a disruptive future.

This episode is sponsored by Broadcom.

Special Guests: AJ Casamento, Brian Larsen, and Brian Sherman.

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Inside Modern Flash Storage Technologies

NAND Research — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 13:00:00 -0500

Flash storage continues to evolve, with that evolution triggering changes in how we think about and deliver enterprise storage.

Andy Walls, 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.

00:00 Introductions
02:07 The role of QLC flash in enterprise storage & overcoming its inherent limitations
12:55 Where does Server Class Memory fit?
17:44 NVMe-over-Fabric changes the interconnect game
21:21 Disaggregated storage: are the days of traditional block storage arrays numbered?
23:55 How is Storage for Mainfames different?, Steve asks from a position of ignorance
26:28 Impactful emerging technologies: CXL bus, Computational Storage,
32:00 Does storage need to change to support Quantum Computing?
Special Guest: Andy Walls.

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

NAND Research — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 -0400

It's a potpourri episode as Moor Insights & Strategy data center analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell 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, and does a software-defined datacenter make hardware irrelevant? All this, and more, on this edition of DataCentric.

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!

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

NAND Research — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 22:00:00 -0400

In the data era, data protection is everything. Cyber resilience can mean life and death for companies that rely on intelligence to drive business. So what’s more important? Securing your organization? Or being able to quickly recover from cyberattacks without having to pay ridiculous ransom amounts to a group of hackers in Eastern Europe? The answer is “both.”

In this Datacentric podcast, Steve and Matt speak with Arcserve about its partnership with Sophos and how this integrated solution can help in both the prevention and recovery from cyber incidents. Oussama El-Hilali, Arcserve’s CTO and Clark Brown, VP of Channel Sale and Strategic partnerships talk about the trends leading to this partnership and how they view the market evolving.
Special Guests: Clark Brown and Oussama El-Hilali.

Special Dell Tech World Day 3 Recap: What'd we Learn?

NAND Research — Wed, 01 May 2019 21:00:00 -0400

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.

Storage. Servers. Edge. VMWare. HCI/CI. And much, much more.

April 2, 2019: NVIDIA in the DataCenter, Nutanix Everywhere, Open Compute, & more on Huawei

NAND Research — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:45:00 -0400

This week Matt & Steve talk through some of what they learned at recent industry events, including the moves that NVIDIA is making into the data center, some discussion of containers in the enterprise, 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 a bit of non-political discussion on Huawei.

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

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

NAND Research — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 20:00:00 -0500

In this episode of the DataCentric podcast, hosts Matt and Steve discuss 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 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