DataCentric

Keeping your Data Center Cool with 2-Phase Immersion Cooling

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Increasing datacenter density while managing HVAC and electrical costs is a hard problem, especially as processor and GPU vendors continue to push sol...

Taming Digital Transformation: A Conversation with Persistent Systems' Dominique Bastos

16 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Digital Transformation is full of promise, and full of challenges. One of the biggest challenges is around cloud – when to use, and to what extent. ...

Taming the MultiCloud Problem, with Nutanix's Lee Caswell

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There aren't many solutions that can tame the multi-cloud management problem, but Nutanix is one of them. In this episode, hosts Matt Kimball and St...

HPE and Nutanix Expand the Potential of Greenlake & as-a-service offerings

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hosts Steve McDowell and Matt Kimball, principal analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, kick off the new year with a conversation with both Nutanix...

Inside MySQL Heatwave: A Conversation with Oracle's Nipun Agarwal

30 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

MySQL is the most popular open source database in the world. Oracle's new MySQL Heatwave makes MySQL the only cloud service with a built-in, high per...

Exploring Edge Computing, with Stratus's Jason Andersen.

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's all about Edge Computing as hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, principal analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, welcome Jason Andersen, VP...

Smart Buildings are a Big Data Problem, with Embue CTO Larry Genovesi

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Buildings are becoming intelligent in ways that aren't always obvious, but that can make a huge difference to both tenants and property managers alike...

Cyber-Security at the Edge

03 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nowhere is cybersecurity more critical than at an enterprise's edge, yet that's also an area with multiple owners and different approaches to the prob...

Modern Data Architecture: A Look at NoSQL & Couchbase

16 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Data is more critical, more abundant, and less structured than at any point in history. The attributes and uses of data are shifting, stressing tradit...

The Changing Face of Cyber-Security

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There is nothing more critical to IT administrators (and their bosses!) than cyber-security and data protection. Old methods of securing our infrastru...

High Performance Storage, with Infinidat's Eric Herzog

29 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There is (arguably) no faster mainstream storage available than Infinidat's just-launched InfiniBox SSA II array. Infinidat CMO Eric Herzog joins h...

The Data Center is Changing: Are You Ready?

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Data Center is changing, becoming more virtual, fungible, ephemeral... a whole load of adjectives that describe flexible infrastructure, whether d...

Intelligently Managing Multi-Cloud Environments

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Deploying IT services into the "messy middle" between on-prem and cloud can be challenging. This episode finds hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell...

A Look Inside VAST Data's Growing Momentum

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

VAST Data's pursuit of solving some of the world's hardest data problems is resonating with customers, as VAST demonstrates with released momentum num...

Going Cloud Native with NetApp Astra

25 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cloud Native is fast becoming the go-to model for deploying applications in the enterprise and is being used increasingly for production applications....

Inside PCIe 6.0 with PCI SIG president Al Yanes + Inside AMD & Intel Earnings

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The PCI SIG released the specification for PCIe 6.0 in January of this year. Long-time PCI SIG president, and IBM distinguished engineer, Al Yanes wa...

Trends to Watch in 2022

21 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, principal analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, kick off 2022 with a discussion on what to...

Delivering Database-as-a-Service with Nutanix Era & HPE GreenLake

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The cloudification of IT is happening. There is a trend in IT towards simplifying the IT experience, both technologies and IT services. Nowhere is th...

Overcoming the Challenges of Multi-Cloud with HCI

24 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hybrid multi-cloud has become a standard part of nearly every enterprise's IT infrastructure, yet it often remains a disjointed element with complexit...

Application Transformation with Data-Driven DevOps

19 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

While DevOps offers IT organizations the tools required to deliver application transformation, it isn't until you start to incorporate an awareness of...

Data at the Edge with Western Digital

12 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The AI-enabled edge has fast become a part of nearly every enterprise IT architecture, but the machines that we deploy at the edge don't always look l...

Dell Technologies APEX & the as-a-service Market

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dell Technologies entered the as-a-service market with full-force earlier this year when it unveiled its APEX portfolio of offerings. Adam Glick, s...

Thinking about Cyber-Security

13 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How should IT professionals think about cyber-security in a world where business-impacting ransomware and malware attacks have become a daily occurren...

Arm in the Cloud: A Roundtable with Arm, Ampere, and Oracle Cloud

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's been a big year for Arm in server. Arm announced its Armv9 architecture and new Neoverse cores. Ampere Computing announced its processor roadmap...

Dell goes APEX over as-a-service & Ampere rolls out its latest

27 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's an as-a-service world as Dell goes big with Project APEX. APEX delivers storage and HCI as-a-service, plus delivers some custom solutions. Ampe...

Digital Transformation in today's Cloud-Native Data-First World

13 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Investment in Digital Transformation projects continues to accelerate. The move to cloud-native and data-first architectures bring new challenges and...

Inside Arm Neoverse & Arm9 with Arm's Brian Jeff

04 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Arm9 is Arm's first major architectural update in nearly a decade. Neoverse enables Arm's ecosystem of partners to bring the new Arm9 architecture int...

The Impact of AI on Enterprise IT Architecture

22 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

AI and Machine Learning have become mainstream enterprise workloads. At the same time, these technologies force us to rethink IT architecture. NV...

AMD Launches its EPYC New Server CPU

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

AMD continues its impressive run at conquering the server market as it introduces its latest generation EPYC processor, "Milan". Hosts Matt Kimbal...

Professional Services for Modern Enterprise IT

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professional Services teams can bring tremendous value to an IT organization. A professional services engagement brings a trusted advisor into your o...

Is the Enterprise Infrastructure Market Rebouding?

05 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Earning's season for 4Q has come to a close, with Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), NetApp, and Pure Storage all annouceing over th...

Commvault CEO Sanjay Mirchandani

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Commvault is having a great run in the white-hot data management and data protection space. It's most recent quarter set records for the quarter-cent...

Inside Pure Storage's FlashBlade and FlashArray Announcements

16 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pure Storage, one of the original pioneers of all-flash storage, has released a slew of updates to the software behind both its FlashArray and FlashBl...

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

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 mea...

Data Center Predictions for 2021

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's a new year (2021!), which can only mean one thing: Predictions! Hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, both senior analysts at Moor Insights &am...

Digital Transformation during an Uncertain Time

22 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Digital Transformation is always front and center of every IT organization, but at no point has digital transformation been more critical than now, as...

Catching up on the IoT Edge

25 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You can't escape the Edge, but what does it really mean for IT? This is a world where there are limited standards and no "one true way" to deliver so...

Catching up on High Performance Computing, with Penguin Computing

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As SuperComputing 2020 wraps up, it's a great time to catch up on everything happening in the HPC world. Nobody knows HPC better than Penguin Compu...

Cloud-Native Data Protection, Commvault Style

17 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's KubeCon week, which means that we're all thinking about containers! Containers require a different way of thinking about persistent data, which d...

Inside Modern Flash Storage Technologies

08 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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

Architecting a Flexible & Resilient Data Center

08 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 quic...

Bringing Cloud-Native to IoT, with Arm's Mohamed Awad

30 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Cloud-native techniques provide a natural way for deliver functionality to the edge and IoT, delivering IT agility where it's needed the most. Arm's ...

Inside the latest IBM Storage Announcements - Live from IBM Tech U

27 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's all about cloud-native and containers as IBM announces a slew of new features and offerings at its annual IBM Tech U event. The announcements i...

Accelerating the Kubernetes Container Experience

22 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Containers have been embraced by IT organizations across the board. No longer strictly limited to dev ops and non-production environments, we're star...

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

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The hyper-scale market is often a leading indicator of broader enterprise data center trends. This is true of software to manage scalability, autonom...

Inside the Server Market with Dell Technologies' Jonathan Seckler

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Our old friend Jonathan Seckler, Dell Technologies Director of Server Marketing, joins hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell (both senior analysts at ...

It's Cyber-Security Month and HPE has a Unique New Server Offering

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Securing the supply chain for enterprise infrastructure is a key element to any comprehensive cyber-security strategy. As cyber-security month kicks ...

Inside the HCI Market with Hewlett Packard Enterprise

28 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What is it about HCI that enterprise IT likes so much? On this episode David Wang, HPE's director of storage marketing, drops in to talk to hosts Mat...

Supercomputing Invades the Enterprise

10 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Supercomputing has left the lab and is fast becoming a mainstream enterprise IT capability, whether we're talking about a dedicated compute cluster, o...

Understanding the Enterprise Infrastructure Market in 2H 2020

04 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's been a big couple of weeks of earnings from all of the major enterprise infrastructure market players, including NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell Techn...

Inside the Server Market with Dell Technologies' Jonathan Seckler

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The server market is rapidly changing. It's less about the speeds and feeds of your hardware, and much more about the capabilities required to support...

Inside Earnings: Intel, AMD, & IBM all Beat-the-Street

03 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Earnings for 2Q have started rolling in, with IBM, AMD, and Intel all early reporters from the Data Center world. There's solid financial news for al...

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

28 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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: t...

Edge Computing: IT meets Industry

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Enterprise IT is rapidly moving towards the edge, but what does that really mean? There are extremes to what defines edge. Edge can describe the saf...

Q1 2020: All About Software-Defined and As-a-Service

12 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What did we learn about datacenter infrastructure from the latest batch of earnings? That’s it all about software-defined and as-a-service. Data c...

Securing the Infrastructure Supply Chain

02 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You don't always think about the security of your vendor's supply chain as a part of your organization's cybersecurity and compliance efforts -- but y...

Infrastructure Earnings during a Pandemic + AMD EPYC's Continued Traction

27 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's a strange time for infrastructure companies as we start seeing the first full-quarter earnings in this COVID-19 world. Hewlett Packard Enterpris...

Inside the new Dell EMC PowerStore Mid-Range Storage Solution w/ Dell's Caitlin Gordon

05 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dell Technologies shakes up the hot midrange storage market with the introduction of its long-anticipated offering: the Dell EMC PowerStore. Dell's...

Infrastructure Management & Deployment in a Quarantined World, with Pure Storage's Shawn Rosemarin

27 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

IT infrastructure needs maintenance, and, as we reconfigure for a remote workforce, it needs critical expansion. This is challenging in an environment...

HCI & vSAN with VMWare's Lee Caswell

13 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

HCI has become a rare success story, a technology that continues to grow at 25-30% year-over-year. There isn't a technology company doing more to fue...

Cybersecurity in the age of the Intelligent Edge: A conversation with HPE and Aruba

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Intelligent Edge, encompassing "devices that aren't in the datacenter", is growing at a nearly exponential rate. This challenges how traditional ...

Post-Earnings Enterprise Infrastructure Market, New ARM-based Ampere Server CPUs, & AMD Financial Day

09 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Now that we've seen earnings from all of the tier-one infrastructure players, hosts Steve McDowell & Matt Kimball talk about what the flat-to-down...

Edge Computing: New Announcements from DELL & HPE + News!

25 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dell Technologies releases new edge products, HPE drops a new micro-server for edge and SMB, and Lenovo announces earnings. What's it all mean? Where'...

Storage-made-Simple with IBM's Eric Herzog

17 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On the heels of a big set of announcements from IBM Storage, Eric Herzog, Chief Marketing Officer and VP of Worldwide Storage Channels for IBM, joins ...

Earnings Galore: AMD & Intel + All the Cloud Guys (plus some VMware & Cisco)

06 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's been a busy few weeks on the earnings front, as Intel blows away all estimates, AMD does well enough, and the cloud wars continue to rage with Go...

Scale Computing CEO & Co-Founder Jeff Ready talks HCI

03 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Scale Computing is a pioneer in HCI (inventing, in fact, the very term). The company has just come off a record year demonstrating 90% growth. They ...

Top 2020 DataCenter Trends

14 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's 2020, and that means a whole new set of predictions for the year! Join Moor Insights & Strategy technology analysts Matt Kimball and Steve M...

Big Trends from 2019

06 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's been an eventful year, but largely one setting chess pieces up for what's to come. Moor Insights & Strategy technology analysts Steve McDowel...

AWS ReInvent 2019 Wrap-Up

09 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Amazon's massive AWS ReInvent Conference is nearly overwhelming in its breadth and scope, with dozens of announcements spanning numerous areas, from ...

Live with Arm's Mohamed Awad, VP Infrastructure LOB

19 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Arm's Mohamed Awad, as VP in Arm's Infrastructure group, is front-and-center in their architecture's invasion into enterprise compute. Let's look at w...

HPE's Container Platform with HPE Cloud Strategist Robert Christiansen

18 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As Hewlett Packard Enterprise launches its bare-metal container platform at KubeCon this week, Moor Insights & Strategy analysts Matt Kimball and ...

November 2019 Event News Roundup: Microsoft Ignite, VMWorld Europe, NVIDIA GTC DC & More!

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's been a busy few weeks as the fall conference season hits its stride. In this episode, Moor Insights & Strategy analysts Matt Kimball and Stev...

NetApp talks about Cloud Native, Containers, & HCI

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

NetApp is about more than just about on-prem enterprise storage. They are changing with the industry as it embraces HCI, Cloud Native, and Kubernetes ...

ARM TechCon 2019 Wrap-Up with Patrick Kennedy from Serve The Home

15 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As ARM TechCon 2019 wraps up in San Jose, hosts Steve McDowell and Matt Kimball from Moor Insights & Strategy are joined by Patrick Kennedy of Se...

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

07 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

News Round-Up: RedHat Summit, Pure Accelerate, Dell's EPYC Server,

25 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A catch-up podcast as Moor Insights & Strategy technology analysts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell run through a very news-filled September. Th...

Talking with Coz: Pure Origins and the Future of Storage

12 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Want to hear a good origin story? Or about the future of data? You're in luck. As Pure Storage heads into its annual Pure Accelerate Conference in Au...

VMWorld 2019 Wrap-Up

06 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

VMworld, which has become ground-zero for setting the direction for IT infrastructure, just wrapped up in San Francisco. Attended by over 21,000(!) p...

Talking with Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo

29 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

AMD Releases an Epyc ROME while Lenovo delivers very nice earnings

21 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Moor Insights & Strategy analysts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell are back from their various summer adventures and are easing back into the pod...

IBM Closes Red Hat Acquisition + Releases New Storage Offerings

10 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's been a big week for IBM. The company closed its acquisition of Red Hat, while also expanding its storage offerings. We bring in IBM's Storage...

July 2 2019: HCI Market Share Numbers + Wrapping up HPE Discover

02 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

HCI market share numbers for Q1 2019 are in and, boy, have things changed! Nutanix slides while Dell EMC holds dominance in branded systems, but isn't...

Cyber-Security with HPE's Bob Moore: Live from HPE Discover

24 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

During this wide-ranging half-hour discussion recorded live at the 2019 HPE Discover in Las Vegas, hosts Steve McDowell and Matt Kimball talk to HPE's...

Converged Infrastructure with HPE's Gary Thome: Live from HPE Discover

19 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Joining the podcast this week is Gary Thome, HPE's vice president and chief engineer within the Converged Datacenter Infrastructure business. Moor Ins...

Live from HPE Discover: Announcements! Themes! Fun in Las Vegas with HPE!

19 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

HPE Discover kicks off with an overwhelming list of themes focused around software-defined, multi-cloud, intelligent edge, and, of course, the stars o...

June 10, 2019: Quarterly Server Numbers! Dell Tech Earnings! What's happening at Nutanix? And Computex!

10 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's been a newsworthy week in the world of data center. IDC released server numbers that validate what the recent spate of earnings has told us. The...

Inside IBM Storage with Eric Herzog, CMO & VP WW Storage Channels

04 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of the DataCentric Podcast has co-host Steve McDowell talking with Eric Herzog. Eric, a long-time veteran of the storage world, is the Ch...

May 28, 2019: Earnings Extravaganza! HPE! Pure Storage! NetApp! Plus China, Huawei, Lenovo, and More!

28 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Last week was a big week for earnings, with Hewlett Packard Enterprise beating the street and providing some intriguing commentary in their conference...

May 23, 2019: Recapping Lenovo Accelerate

23 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded live from Lenovo Accelerate in Orlando, FLA, hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell wrap up their coverage of the event. They talk servers, st...

Lenovo Accelerate Day 2: Talking HCI & Software Defined with Lenovo

14 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're podcasting live from Lenovo Accelerate in Orlando, and there are special guests! Shekhar Mishra, Director of Product Marketing for Software Def...

Lenovo Accelerate Day 1: Lenovo Enters with Strong Momentum

14 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lenovo's data center group, under the leadership of Kirk Skaugen, is on fire, outgrowing the market. The company is exhibiting stellar growth in serv...

Nutanix .NEXT Day 2: The Customer Experience

10 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Nutanix .NEXT hosted nearly 7,000 IT professionals -- Matt & Steve managed to get one to talk about his experiences deploying Nutanix HCI in an en...

Nutanix .NEXT Day 1 Recap: All About the Announcements

09 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Nutanix .NEXT 2019 kicks off in Anaheim CA, where nearly 7,000 IT professionals gather to hear Nutanix's vision of software-defined multi-cloud world....

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

02 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

Special Dell Tech World Day 2 Recap: Storage, Data, and a Server

01 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dell EMC released a flurry of product announcements targeted at the enterprise. New Midrange Storage. New PowerMax storage. Dell joins the Storage-on-...

Special Dell Tech World Day 1 Recap: All About that Cloud!

30 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Day one of Dell Technologies World 2019 has just concluded, and Matt & Steve from Moor Insights & Strategy provide a quick recap of the day's ...

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

11 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the DataCentric podcast, hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell (both from Moor Insights & Strategy) go deep on Intel's DataCent...

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

02 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 c...

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

18 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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" ...

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

08 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Steve McDowell and Matt Kimball, senior datacenter analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, leave their impressions from IBM's recent Think event, wh...