VMWorld 2019 Wrap-Up

Episode  |  September 6th, 2019  |  Season 2019  |  45 mins 20 secs

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VMworld, which has become ground-zero for talking about deploying IT infrastructure, just wrapped up in San Francisco. Moor Insights & Strategy senior datacenter analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell talk about what it all means.

Talking with Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo

Episode  |  August 29th, 2019  |  Season 2019  |  34 mins 22 secs

data fabric, datacenter, earnings, enterprise, flash, hci, information technology, it, pure storage, storage, technology

What's the secret of Pure Storage's success? Having pushed the industry into the All-Flash era, they now find themselves growing 30%/year and landing alone as the only storage vendor showing growth in this quarter's round of earnings. Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo joins the DataCentric podcast to talk about both what's behind Pure's current success, and how he envisions a future where "data" is a utility.

April 11, 2019: Intel Throws a Party + Storage News + More!

Episode  |  April 11th, 2019  |  Season 2019  |  50 mins

cascade lake, datacenter, enterprise, information technology, intel, it, lenovo, optane, processor, pure storage, servers, storage, xeon

Intel throws a coming-out party for it's new Cascade Lake Xeons and Optane DC Persistent Memory, enabling a whole new slew of high-performance servers, while also setting the stage for a disruption in storage and in-memory compute. Where does AMD fit into this new world? Is there other data center news? Of course! Excelero partners with Lenovo, Pure acquires NAS technology, and Matt contemplates trading in his Windows laptop for a Macbook.

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

Episode  |  March 18th, 2019  |  Season 2019  |  41 mins 6 secs

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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.

March 7 2019: IBM Think! Plus earnings wrap-up for Lenovo and HPE

Episode  |  March 7th, 2019  |  Season 2019  |  43 mins 58 secs

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Steve & Matt leave their impressions from IBM's recent Think event, plus they talk about the latest earnings from Lenovo and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. There's also coverage of ARM's new server core architecture, and the analysts continue their long-running conversation about multi-cloud in the enterprise.

Feb 8 2019: Data Center Trends for 2019

Episode  |  February 8th, 2019  |  28 mins 8 secs

amazon, amd, arm, aws, cio, datacenter, enterprise, information technology, intel, it, lenovo, processor, servers, storage, technology

What's impacting the datacenter in 2019? Hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, datacenter analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, talk about it all, from Edge to Cloud to AI and beyond.

Dec 19 2018: 2018 Datacenter Trends

Episode  |  December 19th, 2018  |  Season 2018  |  32 mins 40 secs

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This year we saw some existing datacenter trends solidified, while others emerged. China is driving the server market up. Cloud repatriation is leading to the rise of on-prem consumption-based models. Everyone is focused on converged infrastructure. Is hybrid-cloud manageability ripe for disruption? What's it all mean? Matt and Steve talk about it all.

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.