Dec 19 2018: 2018 Datacenter Trends

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