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Coffee & Crime StoriesStorm of Suspicion: The Disappearance of Crystal McDowellThe source details the disappearance and murder of Crystal McDowell amidst the chaos of Hurricane Harvey. Investigators initially consider her ex-husband Steve McDowell, new boyfriend Paul Hargrave, and uncle Jeff Walters as persons of interest. The narrative highlights Steve McDowell's manipulative tendencies, his unwillingness to accept the divorce, and a history of threats and emotional blackmail against Crystal. Despite initial challenges due to flooding and conflicting opinions among investigators, evidence such as security footage placing Steve at the scene where...
2025-08-2520 min
Who Do You Think You Are?Steve McDowell, Who Do You Think You Are?In this episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, Steve McDowell, chief analyst and founding partner at NAND Research, talks to host Federica Monsone about his journey from engineer to industry analyst and how his expertise in storage, data management, and emerging enterprise technologies helps shape IT strategies. Listen here to learn how Steve stays ahead of industry trends, what makes a great analyst, and the biggest mistakes storage startups make.
2025-05-0739 min
The Dumb Zone FREESteve Noviello drops by for some Gay/Not Gay and Jerry Jones is sane compared to Nico Harrison | DZ 4-22-25 PREVIEWHear the entire episode by subscribing to The Dumb Zone at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneFox 4's, Steve Noviello, drops by to promote our appearance this week on Last Call. We do some Gay/Not Gay with Steve while eavesdropping on the Cowboys pre-draft press conference. Then we see how to diffuse a dog fight, something is off about Nico Harrison, and Shadeur Sanders to the Cowboys?
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2025-04-2217 minThe Dumb Zone FREEJake phones a former co-worker, RIP Hooters, and Gay/Not Gay with Steve Noviello PREVIEW | DZ 2-25-25Hear the entire episode by subscribing to The Dumb Zone at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneJake phones a former co-worker from The Ticket, RIP to Hooters, and the first edition of Gay/Not Gay with Fox 4's, Steve Noviello
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2025-02-2513 min
No Regrets Leadership PodcastEquipping Your Faith: A Conversation with Sean McDowellIn this episode, Steve Sonderman is joined by Sean McDowell who shares practical ways to defend your faith and engage in meaningful conversations about Christianity. Whether you’re a parent guiding your children through questions of faith or someone seeking to better articulate your beliefs, Sean offers hands-on tools and encouragement for your journey. Sean emphasizes the importance of trusting God, getting prepared, and learning the skill of defending your faith through resources like books, podcasts, and practice. He also introduces his latest book, "End the Stalemate," co-written with Tim Muehlhoff, which focuses on finding common ground, clarifying differences, and...
2025-01-0924 min
The Jury's VerdictE25: Crystal McDowellWhen Crystal McDowell went missing, there were a lot of people the police were suspecting. Her current boyfriend, her uncle, etc. But out of those names at the top of their list, Steve McDowell wasn't one of them. At least, not initially. But after more and more incriminating evidence popped up, the police started to consider that maybe the person responsible for Crystal's death was her ex-husband, Steve McDowell.
2024-06-1722 min
Student Ministry Connection120: Equipping Parents to be Spiritual Leaders with Sam McDowellWhat does it look like to not only share Jesus with the next generation but to also equip parents as the spiritual leaders in their homes? On this episode of Student Ministry Connection, we’ll talk with Sam McDowell, author of Parent Equip, about what all of that means and share some practical steps on how youth leaders can take equip parents in what the Bible says is their role.
Links referenced in this episode:
Check out Sam's website at https://sammcdowell.com and his book at http://parentequip.com (discount code shared near the end of t...
2023-11-2943 min
The Sports-CastersSeason 13 Episode 21- Joe Buck, Roger McDowellSteve interviews Joe Buck (00:11:18) from ESPN and the play by play broadcaster for Monday Night Football. Joe joins us to talk about Monday Night Football and how things have settled for Troy and himself in year two. Joe talks about flex scheduling, Troy Aikman's best season, and the big games on the back half of their schedule. Joe also tells stories about his father, hanging out with Eddie Vedder at the Sphere in Vegas, and bringing his young twins to Monday Night Football.
Also, Jack McDowell is making his first appearance (01:02:20) on the podcast as part of our Pearl Jam...
2023-11-131h 32
DataCentricKeeping your Data Center Cool with 2-Phase Immersion CoolingIncreasing datacenter density while managing HVAC and electrical costs is a hard problem, especially as processor and GPU vendors continue to push solutions that run hotter and consume more energy than ever before. This has pushed us into the age of liquid cooling. While Direct-2-Chip liquid cooling has become an acceptable alternative to the traditional air-cooled datacenter, cooling technology has evolved. The state-of-the-art is now 2-Phase Immersion Cooling, where servers are housed in an enclosure full of a dialelectric fluid that removes the heat, all without fans or heatsinks. It's a remarkable technology.
In this episode...
2023-02-2339 minDataCentricTaming Digital Transformation: A Conversation with Persistent Systems' Dominique BastosDigital Transformation is full of promise, and full of challenges. One of the biggest challenges is around cloud – when to use, and to what extent. This week’s podcast has hosts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell speaking with Dominique Bastos, Senior Vice President at Persistent Systems.
In this episode, Dominique talks about what she sees with enterprise customers undergoing digital transformation, and how to find an on-prem/off-prem balance that drives best results for the business.
Equally interesting is Dominique’s perspective as a woman’s journey through the tech ranks – from engineer to executive.
Tune in fo...
2023-02-1644 minDataCentricTaming the MultiCloud Problem, with Nutanix's Lee CaswellThere 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 Steve McDowell have a wide-ranging conversation with Nutanix's Lee Caswell about the challenges that face IT administrators and architects in 2023.Special Guests: Lee Caswell and Matt Kimball.
2023-01-2631 minDataCentricHPE and Nutanix Expand the Potential of Greenlake & as-a-service offeringsHosts Steve McDowell and Matt Kimball, principal analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, kick off the new year with a conversation with both Nutanix and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Joining the podcast is HPE's Mark Maguire and Nutanix's Aaron Delp.
Nutanix and HPE are at forefront of IT modernization & digital transformation, helping customers globally deliver business critical apps in more efficient and cost-effective way with certified solutions that come with freedom of choice (flexibility of deployment and choice of consumption model).
The guys talk about how to solve real world customer problems, where traditional infratructure...
2023-01-0537 minDataCentricInside MySQL Heatwave: A Conversation with Oracle's Nipun AgarwalMySQL 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 performance, in-memory query accelerator—HeatWave.
In this episode, hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, principal analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, catch up with Oracle's Nipun Agarwal, Oracle's SVP of MySQL and Heatwave, at the recent Oracle OpenWorld event to about what it all means.
This is wide-ranging conversation about the history of MySQL, where it plays well, and how Oracle MySQL HeatWave brings added value to the MySQL ecosystem. ...
2022-10-3027 minDataCentricExploring Edge Computing, with Stratus's Jason Andersen.It's all about Edge Computing as hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, principal analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, welcome Jason Andersen, VP of Strategy and Product Management at Stratus.
Jason brings Matt & Steve up-to-speed on what’s happening in the world of edge computing in a wide-ranging conversation about standards (or the lack of), the evolution of edge architectures, the fragmented edge market, the colliding worlds of IT & OT, and how Stratus helps its customers navigate through this confusing world.
There is a whole lot packed into this hour-long discussion, but it's invaluable for anyone wo...
2022-09-0650 min
EARLY VALUE NFLEp 43 with Steve Fezzik @FezzikSportsTonights episode we have one of the best Pro bettors around in Steve Fezzik to discuss the Nfl season.
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2022-08-2636 minDataCentricSmart Buildings are a Big Data Problem, with Embue CTO Larry GenovesiBuildings are becoming intelligent in ways that aren't always obvious, but that can make a huge difference to both tenants and property managers alike. Intelligent buildings are the epitome of the modern edge-to-cloud story, blending together process control, SaaS, and big data analytics to solve very practical problems.
Nobody knows this space better than this week's guest, CTO and co-founder of Embue, Larry Genovesi. Larry, who has a long 20+ year history with hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, has spent his career solving interesting but non-obvious problems.
Embue is Larry's latest venture, bringing bottom-line impacting...
2022-07-1445 minDataCentricCyber-Security at the EdgeNowhere is cybersecurity more critical than at an enterprise's edge, yet that's also an area with multiple owners and different approaches to the problem. It's a complicated environment.
Gary Cohen, senior editor at CFE Media, joins hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell to give us his perspective. CFE Media focuses heavily on tracking the trends influencing the edge.
This is a wide-ranging conversation that touches on IT vs OT, cybersecurity, and even a little baseball & Morrissey. Tune in!
00:00 Kick Off
01:02 Gary's history with the Chicago Cubs
05:00 Who is CFE Media?
07:00...
2022-06-0332 min
A Podcast for CreativesConversations with Creatives: Emily McDowellSuccess may look good, but it doesn’t always feel good. In this edition of Conversations with Creatives, writer and illustrator Emily McDowell gives us an honest look at her journey from Etsy shop owner to stationery industry maven. Through her signature wit and authenticity, she shares the rarely discussed downside of business growth and how she found the courage to walk away. If you’ve been struggling to find a balance between creativity and business or are in a period of transition, you will especially appreciate Emily’s story. Connect with Emily: E...
2022-05-2459 minDataCentricModern Data Architecture: A Look at NoSQL & CouchbaseData is more critical, more abundant, and less structured than at any point in history. The attributes and uses of data are shifting, stressing traditional relational database management tools that we've come to rely on. NoSQL promises one answer to modern data management.
Couchbase's VP of Product & Solution Marketing, Jeff Morris, joins hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, principal analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, to talk us through the technology, where its best deployed, and how Couchbase plays in the space.
00:00 Show Open
00:03 Matt's Foolishness
00:45 Let's Talk about NoSQL
01:20 Introduce CouchBase...
2022-05-1635 minDataCentricThe Changing Face of Cyber-SecurityThere is nothing more critical to IT administrators (and their bosses!) than cyber-security and data protection. Old methods of securing our infrastructure are no longer as effective as they once were. Instead, we're moving into an era of AI-based decisions about what data and traffic to let in, and keep out, of our networks.
Hillstone Networks is a strong innovator in this space. In this episode HIllstone's Tim Liu and Gary Wang join hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell to help us understand the evolving nature of cyber-security.
00:00 Kick it off
00:20 Who is Hillstone?
2022-05-0525 minDataCentricHigh Performance Storage, with Infinidat's Eric HerzogThere is (arguably) no faster mainstream storage available than Infinidat's just-launched InfiniBox SSA II array.
Infinidat CMO Eric Herzog joins host Steve McDowell, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, to walk us through just how Infinidat is able to increase throughput and IOPs by more than 50% in the new array, while also ensuring a compelling level of data protection and cyber-resilience. The guys also talk about the continuing evolution of storage, with a deep-dive into AIOps and how new workloads (such as cloud-native) impact storage architecture.
This is a great podcast for anyone interested in...
2022-04-3030 minDataCentricIntelligently Managing Multi-Cloud EnvironmentsDeploying IT services into the "messy middle" between on-prem and cloud can be challenging.
This episode finds hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, principal analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, talking to Todd Brannon, Cisco's Senior Director of Product Marketing for Cloud Platforms, about the challenges of managing IT resources in a multi-cloud world.
The guys talk about the challenges of managing a mixed cloud/on-prem, the adoption (or lack of adoption!) of autonmous infrastructure,
00:00 Podcast Opens
02:44 Introducing Cisco's Todd Brannon
04:58 What are the biggest cloud-related challenges facing IT today?
07:30 Solving...
2022-04-0439 minDataCentricA Look Inside VAST Data's Growing MomentumVAST Data's pursuit of solving some of the world's hardest data problems is resonating with customers, as VAST demonstrates with released momentum numbers.
On this episode of DataCentric, hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell are joined by VAST CMO and co-founder Jeff Denworth. Jeff walks us through the VAST Data story, tells us why AI is particularly challenging, and hints at where VAST might go in the future.
00:31 What was missing in the storage industry that needed to be created in 2016?
03:36 What did VAST do differently to shake up traditional storage architectures?
06:52 Jeff...
2022-03-0228 minDataCentricGoing Cloud Native with NetApp AstraCloud Native is fast becoming the go-to model for deploying applications in the enterprise and is being used increasingly for production applications. This is happening both in the cloud and on-prem. But making containers production-ready requires more than just installing Kubernetes.
Hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell spend time with NetApp's Eric Han, Vice President of product management for NetApp Astra, NetApp's cloud-native solution, to understand the complexities of deploying cloud-native technologies into a production IT workflow.
This is great convesation for anyone involved in IT or application architeture.
00:00 Theme Song
01:10 Geting...
2022-02-2529 minDataCentricInside PCIe 6.0 with PCI SIG president Al Yanes + Inside AMD & Intel EarningsThe 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 walks hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, both principal analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, through the specification, talking about what's new and different and the benefit that IT will ultimately enjoy.
Additionally, AMD and Intel each released strong earnings overall, and very strong delivery in their respective enterprise data center segments. Matt & Steve talk about what the earnings say about the current state of the processor market.
00:00 Kick it off
00:50 AMD...
2022-02-0335 minDataCentricTrends to Watch in 2022In this episode, hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, principal analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, kick off 2022 with a discussion on what to watch in the world of enterprise infrastructure during the upcoming year.
This is a wide-ranging conversation covering everything from AMD and ARM in the server market, alternative processor architectures, supply chain, PCIe 5.0, and even some of the goings-on at this month's Consumer Electronics Show.
00:00 Start the show!
01:40 The Server Market: AMD Server market share numbers, Intel's current situation, and the impact of supply chain disruptions
10:38 AMD and Intel introduce new...
2022-01-2138 minDataCentricDelivering Database-as-a-Service with Nutanix Era & HPE GreenLakeThe cloudification of IT is happening. There is a trend in IT towards simplifying the IT experience, both technologies and IT services. Nowhere is this more evident than in how IT organizations deliver services, such as database services, to the broader enterprise.
On this edition of DataCentric, hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, principal analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, talk to HPE and Nutanix about how these two companies have partnered to help IT shops simplify both their own, and their user's, experience.
Joining Steve and Matt are Kate Davis, Global Marketing Manager for HPE...
2021-11-0325 minDataCentricOvercoming the Challenges of Multi-Cloud with HCIHybrid multi-cloud has become a standard part of nearly every enterprise's IT infrastructure, yet it often remains a disjointed element with complexities that are different from those faced in the traditional data center.
In this episode of DataCentric, hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell talk to Nutanix's Rakesh Sreekanth and Lenovo's Ritu Jain about how HCI can be a great way to address these challenges.
Nutanix brings a unified range of solutions, spanning basic HCI all the way to full multi-cloud management solutions that tie together on-prem and cloud.
Lenovo is one of...
2021-10-2426 min
Wisdom On WheelsTwitter trolls consider me a racist for defending Josh McDowellJosh McDowell made a statement that stirred up some controversy recently, leading him to step away from his ministry. When I defended his comment, some folks on Twitter had a conniption. This episode expands on why I think Josh was right and includes my response to those who objected to my defense of his statement.
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2021-09-251h 35
DataCentricApplication Transformation with Data-Driven DevOpsWhile DevOps offers IT organizations the tools required to deliver application transformation, it isn't until you start to incorporate an awareness of "Data" into a DevOps world that the real power to achieve digital transformation can be achieved.
Host Steve McDowell, senior technology analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, has a wide-ranging conversation with Delphix CEO and founder Jedidiah Yueh about the power of DevOps and why data is the "last automation frontier". They also talk about the intersection of DevOps, machine learning, and MLOps, as well as fostering a culture of innovation.
00:00 Roll the tape...
2021-08-1921 min
DataCentricData at the Edge with Western DigitalThe 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 like the equipment in the data center. Edge requires a different way of thinking about IT architecture.
Scott Hamilton, senior director of product marketing and management at Western Digital, joins hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell to talk about deploying data solutions at the edge. Western Digital recently announced new edge-targeted enhancements to its Ultrastar line: the Western Digital Ultrastar Edge Server and the Western Digital Ultrastar Edge-MR.
The...
2021-08-1223 minDataCentricDell Technologies APEX & the as-a-service MarketDell Technologies entered the as-a-service market with full-force earlier this year when it unveiled its APEX portfolio of offerings.
Adam Glick, senior director of product marketing for Dell Technologies APEX, joins hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, senior technology analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, to talk about the trends and drivers that makes as-a-service attractive to IT shops of every size.
Adam also helps us navigate Dell's APEX offerings, taking us through what's being offered, as well as some of the thinking behind the various services. For Dell, APEX is all out delivering the desired...
2021-08-0540 minDataCentricThinking about Cyber-SecurityHow should IT professionals think about cyber-security in a world where business-impacting ransomware and malware attacks have become a daily occurrence?
Hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, senior technology analysts for Moor Insights & Strategy, have a wide-ranging conversation about the current state of cyber-security with Timothy Liu, Senior VP and CTO, as well as a co-founder of Hillstone Networks. HIllstone Networks has been a player in the IT security market since 2006.
The group hits a broad set of related topics, including:
Current trends in data protection: breach vs post-breach protection, ransomware, secured access services
...
2021-07-1328 minDataCentricArm in the Cloud: A Roundtable with Arm, Ampere, and Oracle CloudIt's been a big year for Arm in server. Arm announced its Armv9 architecture and new Neoverse cores. Ampere Computing announced its processor roadmap while delivering Arm-based server technology into the market. Oracle Cloud has announced Ampere-based instances.
Hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, senior technology analysts with Moor Insights & Strategy, go deep into all of this with a special roundtable with Arm, Ampere Computing, and Oracle
Joining the podcast are Leo Leung, Senior Director, Products and Strategy for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; Jeff Wittich, Chief Product Officer for Ampere Computing; and Eddie Ramirez, Senior Director...
2021-06-2348 minDataCentricDell goes APEX over as-a-service & Ampere rolls out its latestIt'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. Ampere Computing, the ARM-based server player, continues its journey as it unveils its next generation Altra CPUs for the cloud world -- with a few cloud partners up on the stage (including Azure).
Hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, senior technology analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, talk about what it all means.
2021-05-2729 minDataCentricDigital Transformation in today's Cloud-Native Data-First WorldInvestment in Digital Transformation projects continues to accelerate. The move to cloud-native and data-first architectures bring new challenges and considerations for IT practitioners undertaking digital transformation projects.
Rajan Sethuraman, the CEO of LatentView Analytics, joins hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell to talk about these challenges, as well as what IT organizations can do to help smooth the path to a successful digital transformation project.
It's a great conversation on the practical considerations involved in any digital transformation project. Special Guest: Rajan Sethuraman.
2021-05-1329 minDataCentricInside Arm Neoverse & Arm9 with Arm's Brian JeffArm9 is Arm's first major architectural update in nearly a decade. Neoverse enables Arm's ecosystem of partners to bring the new Arm9 architecture into the data center.
This episode goes deep into the value that Arm9 and Neoverse bring to data center workloads, as hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell talk with Arm's Brian Jeff, Senior Director of Product Management for Arm's infrastructure business.
The group has a wide-ranging conversation about what's motivated some of the architectural enhancements delivered in Arm9, the shifting enterprise landscape, and where Neoverse fits into it all. Special...
2021-05-0453 minDataCentricThe Impact of AI on Enterprise IT ArchitectureAI and Machine Learning have become mainstream enterprise workloads. At the same time, these technologies force us to rethink IT architecture.
NVIDIA's Tony Paikeday and IBM Storage's Doug O'Flaherty join host Steve McDowell to talk about how to think about the unique placed on the infrastructure by machine learning workloads.
Tony is the director of product marketing for the NVIDIA DGX portfolio of AI supercomputers and NVIDIA accelerated data science platform.
Doug is the global ecosystem leader for IBM Storage.
This episode is sponsored by NVIDIA. Special Guests: Doug...
2021-04-2219 minDataCentricAMD Launches its EPYC New Server CPUAMD continues its impressive run at conquering the server market as it introduces its latest generation EPYC processor, "Milan".
Hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, both senior technology analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, talk about what AMD's launch means to the server industry. The guys also find time to talk about the latest infrastructure market numbers. On the latest DataCentric podcast.
2021-03-1825 min
Letarte on LocationMichael McDowell, Underdog ChampMichael McDowell joins Steve to chat about his path to earning first career Cup Series win as a 70/1 underdog in the sport’s biggest event … the Daytona 500! The native of Glendale, Arizona talks about how focusing on the details helped the No. 34 Ford Mustang team make an impact early in the season. Approaching his career with honesty, making achievable goals and having strong family support has assisted Michael into continuing his Cup Series career. Plus, Steve gets McDowell’s thoughts on what the Next Gen Cup Series car will do for him and the sport overall.
2021-03-1733 minDataCentricProfessional Services for Modern Enterprise ITProfessional Services teams can bring tremendous value to an IT organization. A professional services engagement brings a trusted advisor into your organization, one who can bring targeted expertise to help increase both the momentum and success rates for digital transformation and IT modernization projects.
Joining hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, senior technology analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, tare a couple of seasoned professional services experts. Tom Schroeder, vice president of professional services at Pure Storage, and Don McCullough, the senior product marketing manager for professional services at Pure Storage.
The Pure teams goes into...
2021-03-0830 minDataCentricIs the Enterprise Infrastructure Market Rebouding?Earning's season for 4Q has come to a close, with Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), NetApp, and Pure Storage all annouceing over the past two weeks. This is enough to giving us an idea of how healthy the enterprise storage & server markets are as we leave 2020. The news is actually pretty good.
Hosts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell, both senior technology analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, talk about it on this DataCentric.
2021-03-0522 minDataCentricCommvault CEO Sanjay MirchandaniCommvault 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-century old organization. Credit for its revitalization and success falls directly in the lap of its CEO, Sanjay Mirchandani, who took the reins in early 2019.
On this edition of the DataPodcast podcast, Steve McDowell of Moor Insights & Strategy goes one-on-one with Sanjay to get his unique perspective on the data management and data protection market, and how Commvault's strategy aligns with that vision.
In a wide-ranging conversation, Sanjay and Steve talk about...
2021-02-2238 minDataCentricInside Pure Storage's FlashBlade and FlashArray AnnouncementsPure Storage, one of the original pioneers of all-flash storage, has released a slew of updates to the software behind both its FlashArray and FlashBlade products. In this episode of DataCentric, the gang goes into what's happening in storage today, before talking about how Pure's latest announcements move the ball foward, for Pure Storage and, more importantly, its customers.
Host Steve McDowell talks with Pure Storage vice presidents Amy Fowler and Scott Baker about what's happening in enterprise storage, and what's changing with Pure's latest release. Amy is Pure's vice president for strategy and solutions in Pure...
2021-02-1631 minDataCentricAMD & Intel Earnings: What's it mean for the server market?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 mean for the enterprise server market overall? And how is 2021 starting to shape up? Hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell talk about it on this episode of DataCentric.
2021-01-2924 minDataCentricData Center Predictions for 2021It's a new year (2021!), which can only mean one thing: Predictions! Hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, both senior analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, turn their datacentric focus to the future of the data center and the trends that will be most impactful in 2021.
00:00 Let's start
03:01 Arm-based processors in the cloud: where's it going? Does it impact Arm server adoption? Will there be Arm-based general purpose servers?
14:15 Forget about Arm, what about AMD? Will they hit 15% server share in 2021?
18:15 Intel has had a monopoly in the nascent 3D XPOINT (Intel Optane) business, despite co-inventing...
2021-01-1840 minDataCentricDigital Transformation during an Uncertain TimeDigital Transformation is always front and center of every IT organization, but at no point has digital transformation been more critical than now, as we navigate uncertainty on a global scale.
To help us understand how IT organizations are treating digital transformation projects as we exit 2020 and enter a new year, hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell (senior technology analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy) welcome an expert in digital transformation. Bipin Sahni is the chief strategy officer for Persistant Systems, a global system integrator and solution provider who helps enterprises of all sizes navigate the waters of...
2020-12-2242 minDataCentricCatching up on the IoT EdgeYou 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 solutions, so IT practitioners look to middleware and common tooling to help mangage the complexity. What's working? What isn't? And is there a turf war brewing between IT and OT teams within the enterprise?
This episode finds hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell talking to Jim White, the CTO of IOTech Systems, about the trends and technologies that are influencing the evolution of the IoT-driven edge. The guys...
2020-11-2544 minDataCentricCloud-Native Data Protection, Commvault StyleIt's KubeCon week, which means that we're all thinking about containers! Containers require a different way of thinking about persistent data, which deeply influences how data protection operates in a cloud-native world. It's really all about intelligent data management. And nobody understands intelligent data management quite like CommVault.
CommVault's Global VP of Sales Engineering Don Foster joins hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell to talk about the intersection of data protection and container orchestration.
The guys touch on everything from how data protection for containers is differerent from more traditional architectures, to how you integrate...
2020-11-1733 minDataCentricArchitecting a Flexible & Resilient Data CenterThe events of the past year have taught us a valuable lesson: unexpected change is going to happen, and that change requires IT organizations to quickly respond. Data centers built on a solid foundation of fast, flexible, secure, and resilient infrastructure are the ones poised to adapt and keep the business moving forward.
In this episode, Moor Insights & Strategy technology analyst Steve McDowell is joined by a group of storage infrastructure experts to talk about the fundamentals of a flexible cyber-resilient infrastructure.
AJ Casamento and Brian Larsen join from Broadcom, while Brian Sherman comes to...
2020-11-0849 minDataCentricBringing Cloud-Native to IoT, with Arm's Mohamed AwadCloud-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 Project Cassini brings the IoT industry together with open, collaborative, standards-based initiative to deliver a cloud-native software experience across a secure Arm edge ecosystem.
Arm's Vice President of Marketing for IoT, Mohamed Awad, joins hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell to talk about the power of standardized software at the IoT-enabled edge. Special Guest: Mohamed Awad.
2020-10-3037 minDataCentricInside the latest IBM Storage Announcements - Live from IBM Tech UIt'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 included:
Spectrum Protect Plus enhancements for containers in production.
Spectrum Scale container-native storage access for Red Hat OpenShift.
Spectrum Discover now has deeper integration with Red Hat Openshift Container Storage & IBMB Cloud Digest Storage File Access
Vmware vSphere 7 support for end-to-end NVMe
Increased capacity for SCM in the FlashSystem 7200 & 9200 series
IBM also announced a longer-term vision for container-native data management.
There's a lot to digest, and IBM's Eric Herzog and...
2020-10-2729 minDataCentricAccelerating the Kubernetes Container ExperienceContainers have been embraced by IT organizations across the board. No longer strictly limited to dev ops and non-production environments, we're starting to see production enterprise applications being deployed into Kubernetes-managed containers. These deployments quickly expose the limitations of the technology.
Joining hosts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell (both analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy) is Diamanti's vice present of product, Brian Walden. Diamanti delivers innovative solutions that help bring both performance and simplicity to Kubernetes-managed workloads, whether on-prem, in the cloud, or spanning the two.
This informative conversation delves into some of the challenges of allowing...
2020-10-2244 minDataCentricInside the Hyper-Scale Server Market & the Future of the Data CenterThe 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...
2020-10-1946 minDataCentricInside the Server Market with Dell Technologies' Jonathan SecklerOur old friend Jonathan Seckler, Dell Technologies Director of Server Marketing, joins hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell (both senior analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy) to talk about the current state of the server market.
Jonathan brings us up to speed on the most recent server announcments from Dell, including the the massive storage-centric PowerEdge XE7100 and updates to Dell's OpenManage software.
Beyond hardware, the discussion very quickly evolves into the what's driving the future of enterprise infrastructure (hint: it's digital transformation). Jonathan takes us through the customer conversations and research that Dell Technologies has...
2020-10-1441 minDataCentricIt's Cyber-Security Month and HPE has a Unique New Server OfferingSecuring the supply chain for enterprise infrastructure is a key element to any comprehensive cyber-security strategy.
As cyber-security month kicks off, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announces a new "country of origin" server program that takes things to the next level.
John Grosso, who leads the HPE's Global Operations Engineering organization, joins hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell to talk through cyber-security, the criticality of securing the supply chain, and how HPE is stepping up its secure server program with a new "county of origin" program, where servers are assembled and validated in the United States.
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2020-10-0143 minDataCentricInside the HCI Market with Hewlett Packard EnterpriseWhat 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 Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell about why HCI is compelling, and how the different flavors of HCI address a range of needs in the enterprise, whether on the edge or in the core.
HPE is in an interesting place with HCI. The company has two in-house HCI solutions, dHCI and SimpliVity, and is a major mover of both Nutanix and Vmware VSAN software. How does HPE position them? And what's...
2020-09-2843 minDataCentricSupercomputing Invades the EnterpriseSupercomputing has left the lab and is fast becoming a mainstream enterprise IT capability, whether we're talking about a dedicated compute cluster, or HPC-as-a-service. These capabilities are driving everything from COVID-19 modelling to video-analytics at the retail edge to deliver "frictionless retail".
There's nobody better to talk to us about this market than Penguin Computing.
Penguin's SVP of Strategic Solutions Kevin Tubbs joins DataCentric hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell to talk about what matters when thinking about technical computing in the enterprise. Special Guest: Kevin Tubbs.
2020-09-1047 minDataCentricUnderstanding the Enterprise Infrastructure Market in 2H 2020It's been a big couple of weeks of earnings from all of the major enterprise infrastructure market players, including NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell Technologies, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. IBM, Cisco, Lenovo and others all disclosed earlier last month.
On the software-defined side, there's Vmware, Nutanix, and a whole lot of Bain Capital.
High-end kit is up, mid-range everything (servers & storage) are soft, while as-a-service & software-defined all seem to be solid. Is the IT world shifting? What's it all mean?
Technology analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell (from Moor Insights & StrategY) delve into it...
2020-09-0443 min
Spark Club PodcastEnosi - Steve Hoy - Export Podcast SeriesWelcome to the Spark Club Export Podcast series. In this export series Grant McDowell will be interviewing founders and leaders from seven energy tech companies based in Australia. We’ll hear the back story on how they got started, what problems they aim to solve and what the future holds, here in Australia and in global markets.
2020-08-1825 minDataCentricInside the Server Market with Dell Technologies' Jonathan SecklerThe 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 critical workloads. From software-defined to edge, Dell Technologies director of server marketing join Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell in a wide-ranging discussion on the shifting landscape of servers.
The group seems to touch on every from the on-going "generational shift" of IT buyers, the cloudification of IT, edge computing, open standards, the impact of COVID-19 on IT, and much, much more. Special Guest: Jonathan Seckler.
2020-08-1740 minDataCentricInside Earnings: Intel, AMD, & IBM all Beat-the-StreetEarnings 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 all three, but each with different industry-level impacts. Hosts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell, both from Moor Insights & Strategy, talk about what it all means.
Intel delivered solid numbers, but were punished by both guidance and disclosure of some execution problems in rolling out its next generation, 7nm, processors. Solid numbers for the quarter none-the-less, with a surprising bright spot in Intel's NSG memory group.
AMD, who has become a solid...
2020-08-0351 minDataCentricNews Roundup: Twitter Hacked, VMware (maybe) spinning out of Dell, & does hardware still matter?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: twitter was hacked, Dell Technologies says that it might spin VMware out, ARM gets yet more traction, and does a software-defined datacenter make hardware irrelevant? All this, and more, on this edition of DataCentric.
00:00 - 03:50 Virtual Conference Life
03:51 - 07:23 Twitter is hacked & the popular and tech press have very different spins on the story
07:24 - 14:24 Dell Technologies is "exploring" spinning out VMware: will they? and what's it really mean if they do?
2020-07-2846 minDataCentricEdge Computing: IT meets IndustryEnterprise IT is rapidly moving towards the edge, but what does that really mean? There are extremes to what defines edge. Edge can describe the safe environment of a remote branch office, or maybe the air-conditioned cushiness of a remote telco hut. Then there's the extreme edge, where the lines between IT and OT blur, and anything can go.
Jason Andersen, Stratus Technologies' vice president of business line management, joins Moor Insights & Strategy senior technology analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell to talk about what edge computing can really mean.
If you're wondering how far...
2020-06-2951 minDataCentricQ1 2020: All About Software-Defined and As-a-ServiceWhat did we learn about datacenter infrastructure from the latest batch of earnings? That’s it all about software-defined and as-a-service. Data center hardware sales were down across the board, while the bright spots for the quarter landed on Nutanix and VMware, who showed particularly strong growth in is VSAN and NSX segments. This, while the traditional OEMs saw boosts in their respective service-based offerings.
Moor Insights & Strategy Industry analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell talk about what it all means.
2020-06-1221 minDataCentricSecuring the Infrastructure Supply ChainYou 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 you should. Everything from ensuring the authenticity of components, all the way through the potential exploitation of systems & subsystems in-transit can cause enterprise's damage.
This episode has hosts Steve McDowell and Matt Kimball, both senior analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, talking with John Grosso, Hewlett Packard Enterprise's vice president, global supply chain, about what these issues are, and how technology providers like HPE are addressing them. Special Guest: John Grosso.
2020-06-0242 minDataCentricInfrastructure Earnings during a Pandemic + AMD EPYC's Continued TractionIt's a strange time for infrastructure companies as we start seeing the first full-quarter earnings in this COVID-19 world. Hewlett Packard Enterprise & Lenovo are first up, and we're learning from them how to think about this market. At the same time, AMD's EPYC server CPU continues to gain traction, with new wins in HCI and Deep Learning.
Join hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, both senior analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, as they digest it all.
01:08 Attending Virtual Conferences
05:50 AMD EPYC & HCI and Edge Computiong
08:50 AMD EPYC & Nvidia's New A100
13:16 We don't...
2020-05-2730 minDataCentricInside the new Dell EMC PowerStore Mid-Range Storage Solution w/ Dell's Caitlin GordonDell Technologies shakes up the hot midrange storage market with the introduction of its long-anticipated offering: the Dell EMC PowerStore.
Dell's vice president of productg marketing, Caitlin Gordon, joins hosts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell to talk through the vision of the new offering, as well as offering insights into some of the things that make this one unique -- things like an embedded hypervisor, in-the-box AI, new upgrade options, why this will be the last data migration Dell's customers face, and much, much more. Special Guest: Caitlin Gordon.
2020-05-0522 minDataCentricInfrastructure Management & Deployment in a Quarantined World, with Pure Storage's Shawn RosemarinIT infrastructure needs maintenance, and, as we reconfigure for a remote workforce, it needs critical expansion. This is challenging in an environment where social distancing has become the norm.
What does it take to deploy, maintain, and grow infrastructure in this environment?
Pure Storage's VP of of World Wide Systems Engineering joins hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell to talk about this, as well as what Pure is doing to help out.
The group talks about installation options, how infrastructure (and storage) as-a-service facilitates expansion, the role of remote managment and predictive analytics...
2020-04-2734 minDataCentricCybersecurity in the age of the Intelligent Edge: A conversation with HPE and ArubaThe Intelligent Edge, encompassing "devices that aren't in the datacenter", is growing at a nearly exponential rate. This challenges how traditional IT thinks about managing intelligent infrastructure, especially at the intersection of IT and OT, forcing everyone to think just a little bit differently -- all of this as nearly every company is forging their own paths.
DataCentric hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell are joined by two experts in this field: Jon Green, VP and Chief Security Technologist and Aruba, a Hewlett Packard company, and Tim Ferrell, master cybersecurity architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, bring their...
2020-03-2652 min
Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & CultureThis Beautiful Book: The Big Story of the Bible (with Steve Green)If the Bible seems complicated to you, you’re in good company, and this conversation with Steve Green will help. In his new book, This Beautiful Book, Green lays out with clarity and simplicity, the big storyline of the Bible. Join us for this discussion of “this beautiful book.” Steve Green is president of Hobby Lobby and co-founder of the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC. Read a transcript of this episode at: https://www.biola.edu/blogs/think-biblically/2020/this-beautiful-book ==========Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith and Culture is a podcast...
2020-03-1234 minDataCentricPost-Earnings Enterprise Infrastructure Market, New ARM-based Ampere Server CPUs, & AMD Financial DayNow 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 quarter means to the overall enterprise infrastructure market. There are earnings from Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Vmware, as well as other recent earnings announcements, that give us color.
The HCI space is also continuing its hot streak, with VSAN delivering $900M in bookings to Vmware, while Nutanix also continues to grow at a nearly 50% growth rate. But are they leaving room on the edge and in ROBO for more single-focused competitors like Scale Computing?
2020-03-0948 minDataCentricStorage-made-Simple with IBM's Eric HerzogOn 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 Moor Insights & Strategy senior technology analyst Steve McDowell for a conversation about what's new and different from IBM as the company both simplifies its non-mainframe storage offerings with top-to-bottom FlashSystem products, and continues its efforts to bring that simplicity to a hybrid-multicloud world.
Matt Kimball is away this week on special assignment. Special Guest: Eric Herzog.Links:Overview of IBM Storage Announcements (IBM)IBM Storage Announcement...
2020-02-1714 minDataCentricTop 2020 DataCenter TrendsIt's 2020, and that means a whole new set of predictions for the year! Join Moor Insights & Strategy technology analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell as they discuss what they believe will be the most impactful trends impacting data centers and IT architecture over the coming twelve months.
02:21 Silicon Architecture is no longer a buying critera for servers -- it's all about matching capabilities to workloads (whether x86 or ARM)
09:50 The Public Cloud providers will begin a cycle of acquistions to move their offerings up-the-stack.
19:30 The big OEMs will stop talking about servers and storage and...
2020-01-1435 minDataCentricBig Trends from 2019It's been an eventful year, but largely one setting chess pieces up for what's to come. Moor Insights & Strategy technology analysts Steve McDowell and Matt Kimball each give their top trends of the past year. Not to spoil it, but you can jump directly to the topics from the timeline below:
00:50 Silicon is Sexy Again! Whether we're talking about AMD, ARM, Ampere, NVIDIA, Intel, or one of the emerging players, we're talking about chips.
03:13 The Year of AI Enablement, both applications & inference, with a coming battle for the inference market
05:38 OEMs are Moving to Solution...
2020-01-0621 minDataCentricAWS ReInvent 2019 Wrap-UpAmazon's massive AWS ReInvent Conference is nearly overwhelming in its breadth and scope, with dozens of announcements spanning numerous areas, from ARM to AI to on-premises Outpost.
Moor Insights & Strategy senior analysts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell help clear the path and talk about what the sum of it all really means to IT, as well as the rest of the technology industry.
2019-12-0933 minDataCentricLive with Arm's Mohamed Awad, VP Infrastructure LOBArm'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 where ARM stands in the enterprise today:
Nearly every tier-1 OEM has an Arm server offering
Every major public cloud vendor offers Arm instances
NVIDIA, Marvell, Fujitsu, & Ampere jointed announced an Arm-based Super Computer reference platform at SC19 this week
As we look forward towards a 5G-enabled edge, Arm is finding itself ideally situated to play aggressively in thatspace.
It's not about mobile processing anymore.
Mohamed joins hosts Matt Kimball and Steve...
2019-11-1938 minDataCentricHPE's Container Platform with HPE Cloud Strategist Robert ChristiansenAs Hewlett Packard Enterprise launches its bare-metal container platform at KubeCon this week, Moor Insights & Strategy analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell have a conversation with HPE VP and Chief Cloud Strategist Robert Christiansen. The guys talk about how HPE views cloud workloads, and how the power of Kubernetes and containers might just be the right answer for both cloud and edge.
It's a great conversation with unexpected insight about the long-term impact of Kubernetes on IT architecture. HPE is helping to shape that future as it brings the power of MapR and BlueData into the fold...
2019-11-1827 minDataCentricNovember 2019 Event News Roundup: Microsoft Ignite, VMWorld Europe, NVIDIA GTC DC & More!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 Steve McDowell talk about it all: Microsoft Ignite, VMworld Europe, NVIDIA GTC DC announcements.
There's also chip news as AMD delivers a stellar quarter, Intel has a benchmark oops (and then recovers), and lots of discussion of ARM and Edge. Join us for our unique perspective.
Times:
00:00 Microsoft Ignite: Azure News
13:24 AMD’s stellar quarter
19:00 Intel’s Benchmark Oops
24:35 VMWorld Europe
27:00 ARM at the Edge & in the...
2019-11-1446 minDataCentricARM TechCon 2019 Wrap-Up with Patrick Kennedy from Serve The HomeAs ARM TechCon 2019 wraps up in San Jose, hosts Steve McDowell and Matt Kimball from Moor Insights & Strategy are joined by Patrick Kennedy of Serve the Home in a wide-ranging discussion of the entire microprocessor market, and where ARM fits in.
Here's a general timeline for the discussion, though the topics overlap, so you owe it to yourself to listent to the entire thing.
00:00 Intros
02:20 Big Themes & Announcements from TechCon
03:50 Patrick's views of TechCon from a server, storage, and networking perspective
06:00 ARM at the Edge
10:30 ARM in the Server Market
14:05...
2019-10-1543 minDataCentricNews Round-Up: RedHat Summit, Pure Accelerate, Dell's EPYC Server,A catch-up podcast as Moor Insights & Strategy technology analysts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell run through a very news-filled September. The guys recap Red Hat Summit, Pure Accelerate, and also hit product announcements from Dell EMC, IBM, and Huawei, bemoan the dwindling quality of conference SWAG, and more. Much, much, more:
Red Hat might be owned by IBM, but its about helping enterprises manage digital transformation, focused on where "opportunity and innovation intersect". Steve's a little dense on this topic, and Matt helps him understand what Red Hat's up to.
Pure Storage holds its annual conference...
2019-09-2544 minDataCentricVMWorld 2019 Wrap-UpVMworld, which has become ground-zero for setting the direction for IT infrastructure, just wrapped up in San Francisco. Attended by over 21,000(!) people, it's become one the largest tech conferences in the world.
This year the dominant themes were all about Containers and Clouds, with product announcements touching every aspect of the edge-to-core-to-cloud world.
Tune in as Moor Insights & Strategy senior datacenter analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell talk how VMware has become the operating system for the enterprise, and what happened at VMworld all fits together.
2019-09-0645 minDataCentricAMD Releases an Epyc ROME while Lenovo delivers very nice earningsMoor Insights & Strategy analysts Matt Kimball & Steve McDowell are back from their various summer adventures and are easing back into the podcast saddle by asking the question: Is AMD's new Rome server part really "all that"? Should IT buyers care? And if you do, should you buy a server from Lenovo, who's continuing a stellar run of solid execution? All that, and more, on the newest DataCentric.
00:00 AMD's EPYC Rome server launch: How does it stack up? Is Intel really being threatened?
21:30 Lenovo released very solid earnings for last quarter, continuing an impressive run of datacenter...
2019-08-2132 minDataCentricJuly 2 2019: HCI Market Share Numbers + Wrapping up HPE DiscoverHCI 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.
2019-07-0227 minDataCentricCyber-Security with HPE's Bob Moore: Live from HPE DiscoverDuring 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...
2019-06-2418 minDataCentricConverged Infrastructure with HPE's Gary Thome: Live from HPE DiscoverJoining 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.
2019-06-1917 minDataCentricLive from HPE Discover: Announcements! Themes! Fun in Las Vegas with HPE!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!
2019-06-1919 minDataCentricInside IBM Storage with Eric Herzog, CMO & VP WW Storage ChannelsThis 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...
2019-06-0438 minDataCentricMay 23, 2019: Recapping Lenovo AccelerateRecorded 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.
2019-05-2355 min
The Bible Nerd Podcast090: So the Next Generation Will Know w/ Dr. Sean McDowellHow do we transfer the Christian faith to Generation Z?
While there are lots of resources detailing Gen Z and what to believe about them, there are virtually none which tell how to communicate with them—until now.
So the Next Generation Will Know By Dr. Sean McDowell and J. Warner Wallace is a helpful, accessible volume that has the potential to transform your role as a youth pastor, Christian educator, or parent.
In the interview, Sean and I discuss some of the most prominent themes in the book, including the most likely re...
2019-05-1643 minDataCentricLenovo Accelerate Day 2: Talking HCI & Software Defined with LenovoWe'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...
2019-05-1419 minDataCentricNutanix .NEXT Day 2: The Customer ExperienceNutanix .NEXT hosted nearly 7,000 IT professionals -- Matt & Steve managed to get one to talk about his experiences deploying Nutanix HCI in an enterprise environment.
Join hosts Matt Kimball, Steve McDowell as they talk to special guest Drew Harris, who is Vice President of IT Operations at the Cosmopolitan Casino in Las Vegas to hear about the reality of modern IT colliding with HCI.
It's an interesting chat about the complexities of HCI in the real world, with a few interesting digressions along the way.
We'd like to thank Drew for helping us...
2019-05-1040 minDataCentricNutanix .NEXT Day 1 Recap: All About the AnnouncementsNutanix .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. Included in that 7,000 are hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, analysts with Moor Insights & Strategy.
Nutanix has become the dominant challenger in the software-defined datacenter world. That's not lost on Steve & Matt, who offer up their overall impressions of the event so far, the great energy surrounding .NEXT, and the ambitious vision that Nutanix is setting forth for IT.
All in this very special Nutanix .NEXT recap edition of the DataCentric Podcast.
2019-05-0919 minDataCentricSpecial Dell Tech World Day 3 Recap: What'd we Learn?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 in this short recap of what was a great event.
Storage. Servers. Edge. VMWare. HCI/CI. And much, much more.
2019-05-0212 minDataCentricSpecial Dell Tech World Day 2 Recap: Storage, Data, and a ServerDell EMC released a flurry of product announcements targeted at the enterprise. New Midrange Storage. New PowerMax storage. Dell joins the Storage-on-Demand world with offerings that span on- and off-prem.
Add to that new Dell Latitude laptops, networking branding, VMware cloud management tools... the list goes on and on.
Moor Insights & Strategy data center analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell give you their quick take on it all on this special recap edition of the DataCentric Podcast.
2019-05-0123 minDataCentricSpecial Dell Tech World Day 1 Recap: All About that Cloud!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 events, from serving humanity to VMWare everywhere.
The first day of Dell Tech World usually lays out the major themes that we should expect to hear through the four days of the conference, before the more product-focused announcements kick in on Tuesday. This year it's all about Dell Technologies being a global leader, and taking that leadership seriously. There were panels on diversity, and consistent messages about providing the technology that makes the world...
2019-04-3014 minDataCentricApril 11, 2019: Intel Throws a Party + Storage News + More!In this episode of the DataCentric podcast, hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell (both from Moor Insights & Strategy) go deep on Intel's DataCentric Innovation Day, where Intel formally launches its new Cascade Lake Xeons, while also opening the kimono on Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory. Optane promises to be disruptive to storage and how the industry thinks about in-memory compute. The OEMs community has been waiting for all of this, and there are a bunch of new products on the way.
What's all of this Intel news mean to AMD? Matt & Steve talk about it, along with...
2019-04-1150 minDataCentricApril 2, 2019: NVIDIA in the DataCenter, Nutanix Everywhere, Open Compute, & more on HuaweiThis week Matt & Steve talk through some of what they learned at recent industry events, including the moves that NVIDIA is making into the data center, some discussion of containers in the enterprise, a brief wrap-up from Nutanix's investor conference in New York, some light-thinking following Matt's first missed Open Compute Summit in a decade, and a bit of non-political discussion on Huawei.
If you follow Data Center technology, as well as the players behind the what's happening, you'll be in good company with Matt KImball and Steve McDowell from Moor Insights & Strategy and the DataCentric Podcast.
2019-04-0244 minDataCentricMarch 7 2019: IBM Think! Plus earnings wrap-up for Lenovo and HPESteve McDowell and Matt Kimball, senior datacenter analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, leave their impressions from IBM's recent Think event, where IBM demonstrated impressive infrastructure while delivering a message focused on enterprise class problems. IBM has long been a trendsetter and early promoter of new architectures such as cloud, capacity on-demand, and solution deliver. They haven't stopped.
Lenovo announced earnings, where the company delivered double-digit growth in its enteprise business, with a surprising confession that it might have hit triple digits in North America. At the same time, Hewlett Packard Enterprise's earnings showed that (for HPE) the...
2019-03-0843 min
Business Wingmen Podcast020- Management KPIs With Jay McDowellBusiness owners must inspect what they expect. KPI's are the ideal way to accomplish this. Guest speaker Jay McDowell covers this topic from his 30 plus years in corporate American Business. W're going to discuss a subject every business owner needs to pay attention to - called Key Productivity Indicators otherwise known as KPI's. Lots of business owners think they can measure the success of their enterprise with profit and loss metrics. Jay tells us a different story and it's one you want to hear.
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