DataCentric

As 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. Listen in.

Thank you to Robert for taking the time to join us this week.

Special Guest: Robert Christiansen.

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• HPE Unveils Container Platform

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.

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• Five most significant announcements from Microsoft Ignite

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 as part of the Data Fabric. This is critical to the company's strategy.

We had the chance to sit separately with NetApp's SVP & GM of Cloud Native (which includes its Kubernetes/Containers activity) Anthony Lye to talk about how NetApp and its enterprise customers view that space, as well as how they are evolving from an "on-prem first" storage player into a multi-cloud and cloud-native solution.

We also had a great conversation with NetApp's Chief HCI Architect Adam Carter at the show who talked about the philosophy behind NetApp's untraditional approach to HCI.

This one is a great listen, and we owe a serious debt of graditude to both Anthony and Adam for making the time at a busy event, as well as the entire NetApp A/R and PR team who made it all happen.

00:00 - 05:15 Matt & Steve hit on some recent news & travel, including Micron 3D XPoint and FujiFilm's IT Summit

Special Guests: Adam Carter and Anthony Lye.

Links:

• NetApp Cloud Native Applications

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 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

Special Guest: Patrick Kennedy.

Links:

• Serve the Home

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 what’s more important? Securing your organization? Or being able to quickly recover from cyberattacks without having to pay ridiculous ransom amounts to a group of hackers in Eastern Europe?  The answer is “both.”

In this Datacentric podcast, Steve and Matt speak with Arcserve about its partnership with Sophos and how this integrated solution can help in both the prevention and recovery from cyber incidents. Oussama El-Hilali, Arcserve’s CTO and Clark Brown, VP of Channel Sale and Strategic partnerships talk about the trends leading to this partnership and how they view the market evolving.

Special Guests: Clark Brown and Oussama El-Hilali.

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 in Austin, where they announce new products and supplement others. It's all about delivering a consistent data-driven expeirence to enteprises, and IT practitioners seem to be on-board. We also talk about partying back-stage with Weezer.

Beyond that, there are Optane-related storage announcements from Dell and Oracle, while Huawei releases the highest-capacity flash array in the world.

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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 Austin next week, it's looking to celebrate its 10th anniversary. 10 years in which Pure has grown from a seed-stage start-up to a ~$4B publically traded company. And Pure continues to be a disrupter in the storage industry.

Given this milestone, we thought we'd step back and talk to the man behind the all-flash storage revolution, Pure's Co-Founder and CTO John "Coz" Colgrove.

Coz touches on everything you're interested it, from the origins of Pure, to current challenges, to the future of storage.

The interview starts about 3 minutes in, if you're the type who likes to fast foward.

Special thanks from the MI&S DataCentric team to Terri, Armi, and Rena at Pure Storage for making this happen and, of course, to Coz, who was very generous with his time. Tune in!

Special Guest: John "Coz" Colgrove.

VMworld, 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.

What's the secret of Pure Storage's success? Having pushed the industry into the All-Flash era, they now find themselves growing 30%/year and landing alone as the only storage vendor showing growth in this quarter's round of earnings.

Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo joins the DataCentric podcast to talk about both what's behind Pure's current success, and how he envisions a future where "data" is a utility. Charlie gives us his insight on:

Join in. On iTunes, or where ever you get your podcasts!

Special Guest: Charles "Charlie" Giancarolo.

Moor 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?