DataCentric - Episodes Tagged with “Hyperscale”

The Data Center is Changing: Are You Ready?

NAND Research — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 15:00:00 -0400

The Data Center is changing, becoming more virtual, fungible, ephemeral... a whole load of adjectives that describe flexible infrastructure, whether delivered via the public cloud, an on-prem consumption-based model, or even a hyper-scale data center provider like Equinix, and its Equnix Metal offerings.

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.

Inside the Hyper-Scale Server Market & the Future of the Data Center

NAND Research — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:00:00 -0400

The hyper-scale market is often a leading indicator of broader enterprise data center trends. This is true of software to manage scalability, autonomous management, security, disaggregated storage, and AI/ML.

Jay Shenoy, vice president of technology for Hyve, joins hosts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell (each a senior technology analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy) to talk about what he's seeing in this space.

This wide-ranging conversation touches on seemingly everything: an overview of the hyperscale market; the software-defined data center; autonomous infrastructure; disaggregated storage and the increasing adoption of NVMe-over-fabric; the rise of ARM and accelerators; and even the impact of AI/ML in both training and inferernence use cases.

It's another great conversation on the rapid evolution of the enterprise data center. Special Guest: Jayarama (Jay) Shenoy.

March 18 2019: Inside the latest Server & Storage Numbers + Recent DataCenter News

NAND Research — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 13:00:00 -0400

The latest server and storage market numbers are out, and there are some big winners. And some big losers. Matt & Steve go all "inside-baseball" and talk about what it all means. They also touch on recent news around NVIDIA's Mellanox acquisition, Intel's CXL consortium, and the momentum of the Chinese technology providers.

01:30 IDC Releases 4Q2018 Server Market Numbers
06:08 What's it mean for the HyperScalers?
10:10 What's happening with Huawei?
11:55 Lenovo Data Center team is on fire
14:14 Is there a real slow-down in the server market? Or are we waiting on new parts?
17:50 IDC Releases 4Q2018 Storage Market Numbers
21:30 Hitachi and Storage
23:30 Can you pick the storage market winner from Hardware sales numbers?
24:50 Where's Pure Storage?
26:20 How does Capacity-on-Demand factor into how we count storage & servers?
28:40 Units vs Revenue in the Storage Market
31:30 News: Intel CXL Consortium
35:00 News: NVIDIA buys Mellanox
37:40 Wrapping Up: Where are Steve & Matt spending the next few weeks?