DataCentric

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 group CMO Eric Herzog to tell us all about the new storage offerings. For Eric, it's all about Applications, Workloads, and Use Cases, but with a strong focus on data protection and Big Data/AI. Keeping with that theme, IBM Storage releases a massive update to its Spectrum Discover tool for big data and AI, which now supports a broad swath of third-party storage solutions, while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus takes on new cloud capabilties. There's more, but you need to tune in and let Eric tell you all about it. And did you know that IBM used to have a corporate song? Of course you did. Given the strong IBM slant on this podcast, we'll close out with a rendition that we snagged from IBM's corporate archive site. Listen in! Times 00:30 IBM Closes the Red Hat acquistion 07:10 IBM Releases new Storage Offerings 09:35 IBM Storage CMO Eric Herzog joins to talk about what IBM is releasing today 23:09 IIAR industry analyst awards 25:43 IBM's traditional corporate song: Ever Onward!Special Guest: Eric Herzog.

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 that part of Nutanix's strategy? Shifting to less branded, more partner/OEM sales? That, plus we recap the big themes from the recent HPE Discover Conference. All that, and more, from Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, technology analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy. 3:26 HPE Discover recap -- it's Everything-as-a-Service 16:00 HCI Market Continues to grow, but there's drama in the numbers.

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 Director of Server Software and Product Security, Bob Moore, about the insidious attack vectors that are emerging. This covers everything from firmware attacks to supply chain interceptions, along with the growth of mafia-like organizations that are driving attacks at an unprecedented scale. We also talk about how the industry is helping IT respond to those attacks. IT best practices are being supplemented by silicon-based defenses, AI-driven predictive analytics (such as HPE's own InfoSight), and new cyber-insurance offerings. It's a jam-packed, wide-ranging discussion. It's also one you won't want to miss. Thanks you to Bob Moore for joining us, and HPE's analyst relations team for helping coordinate it all. Special Guest: Bob Moore.

Joining the podcast this week is Gary Thome, HPE's vice president and chief engineer within the Converged Datacenter Infrastructure business. Moor Insights & Strategy analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell talk to Gary to gain a deeper understanding of what converged infrastructure is, and how it fits into modern IT architecture. It's a fascinating conversation that will help you better understand what's happening in this new world Thank you to Gary for taking the time to talk to us, and the HPE analyst relations crew for hooking us up. Special Guest: Gary Thome.

HPE Discover kicks off with an overwhelming list of themes focused around software-defined, multi-cloud, intelligent edge, and, of course, the stars of the show: Storage and HCI. Hosts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell provide a high-level recap of all the happenings, and contextualize the announcements. You won't want to miss it! HPE Launches Primera high-end storage. SimpliVity gets two new offerings + now supports HPE InfoSight Composable Infrastructure A "cloudless" furture? And more!

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 market's down from last year, but there are still winners and losers, and you don't want to get caught on the wrong side of that line! Even in the face of an uncertain server market, Dell Technologies released positive earnings. Matt & Steve go into thiose Is Nutanix heading towards the rocks, or just experiencing natural transition pains? Nutanix also relased earnings, which weren't postive. Do down earnings and the loss of a key executive point to Nutanix heading towards the rocks? Or are we just watching a painful transition to a new business model? Only time will really tell, but Steve & Matt talk about it anyway! Computex is very consumer focused, but there was drama on the AMD/Intel front, as the x86 CPU wars are heating up. Intel takes exception to AMD's claims of 2X performance on some supercomputer numbers, while AMD goes big in HPC. Matt also gives us an explanation of what's really happening when AMD says that they're cutting off x86 "technology transfer" to it's China JV. All that, and Steve's thinking about starting a Twitch feed that highlights his tractor -- a real life video game. Timeline: 01:10 Apple World Wide Developers Conference -- anything for IT? (hint: not really) 02:50 Inside IDC Server Market Numbers 12:00 Inside Dell Technologies Earnings Numbers 15:20 Let's talk about Nutanix's earnings and outlook 24:55 Computex: AMD, Intel, and more 38:33 Steve's Twitch Channel -- available soon 41:10 That's a wrap!

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 Chief Marketing Officer and VP WW Storage Channels for IBM Storage. In a wide-ranging conversation, Eric offers up IBM's vision of what's important in storage. Not to give away the game, but it's all about applications, workloads, and use-cases. IBM Storage is laser focused on delivering storage technologies (hardware and software solutions) against four of the most impactful IT trends: Hybrid Multi-Cloud Storage for AI and Big Data Cyber Resiliancy Modern Data Protection Beyond this, we talk about IBM's NVMe and NVMe-over-fabric story, and Eric tells us why IBM designs their own flash modules. If you touch storage at all (and look at those four trends listed above -- you touch storage whether you think you do or not), then tune in and and hear what Eric has to say. You can find Eric on twitter @zoginstor and linkedin at @erherzog You can Steve McDowell on twitter at @srmcdowell, Matt Kimball at @MattKimball_MIS, and, of course, Moor Insights & Strategy at @MoorInsStrat. Special Guest: Eric Herzog.

Last week was a big week for earnings, with Hewlett Packard Enterprise beating the street and providing some intriguing commentary in their conference call, Pure Storage misses its number while putting up great growth numbers, and NetApp is clearly struggling. All that, along with good discussion of Lenovo, plus grossly uneducated musings on China & Huawei. Looking to jump to the part you're interested in? Here's where things line up: 1:00 Themes across all earnings: this there an elongation of the enteprise sales cycle? What's it really mean? 3:00 HPE Earnings: Cray Acquistion, Edge, Servers, Storage, Software Defined, GreenLake 14:50 NetApp Earnings: we continue to be bearish, unless they go deeper with Lenovo 23:40 Pure Storage Earnings: Don’t be fooled — their earnings don’t reflect their momentum. 32:00 China: Some uneducated discussion about latest news. 38:00 Miscellaneous News: AMD, Intel Bugs, plus random musings 41:32 What’s coming up? HPE Discover.

Recorded live from Lenovo Accelerate in Orlando, FLA, hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell wrap up their coverage of the event. They talk servers, storage, edge, networking, Lenovo's place in the world, and touch on the overall vibe of the event.

We're podcasting live from Lenovo Accelerate in Orlando, and there are special guests! Shekhar Mishra, Director of Product Marketing for Software Defined Datacenter at Lenovo, and Patrick Moorhead, founder and principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy join hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell in an interesting and informative discussion of the impact of software-defined infrastructure, HCI, and cloud on enterprise IT. The group talks about the value of a flexible infrastructure for enterprise IT, the forces behind the trend towards a software-defined infrastructure, the current market, and Lenovo's offerings in the space. If you care about software-defined infrastructure (and if you work IT, then you should!), you should tune in!Special Guests: Patrick Moorhead and Shekhar Mishra.