DataCentric

This year is shaping up to be a huge year for IT and enterprise datacenter architecture. Matt and Steve talk about what they see as the big trends in 2019 that are most impactful, as well as some anti-trends. It's an insightful 28 minutes! 00:46 News: CES, IBM Quantum Computing, & Huawei builds a server ARM part 03:20 Trend: ARM in the DataCenter? It certainly seems to be getting traction, but is it real? 05:46 Trend: Is Cloud Storage maturing in 2019? 09:16 Trend: Edge Computing, micro-datacenters in the wilderness 12:14 Trend: AI a mainstream enterprise workload? Probaby not. At least right now. 15:24 Trend: The continuing march toward insane densities, storage and compute. 18:15 Trend: AMD in the datacenter? We won't make a prediction, but watch these guys. 21:40 Trend: Lenovo is a serious datacenter player. 27:20 Wrapping up: Where are Matt & Steve heading over the next few weeks? IBM THINK, for one.

In this episode of the DataCentric podcast, hosts Matt and Steve from Moor Insights & Strategy discuss the trends that drove the past year in enterprise compute. They touch on the just-released market numbers for enterprise server and storage, talk about how the realities of cloud are impacting innovation in a hybrid-cloud world, Nutanix, Microsoft Azure, and more. 00:00 Introductions 01:20 3Q18 Server and Enterprise Storage Numbers 02:20 The Impact of China on the Enterprise Hardwarwe Market 06:20 The Rise of Hybrid Cloud and On-Prem Consumption Based Services 12:00 Is Nutanix the Disruptor-in-Waiting? 15:30 HCI, Converged, and Composable Infrastructure 23:50 Why aren't we talking more about Microsoft Azure? 28:00 Processors are heating up 31:00 Wrapping Up Companies mentioned: Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enteperprise, Inspur, Lenovo, Huawei, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Pure Storage, VMWare, Nutanix, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices

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