Matt Kimball

HPE Extends Its Cybersecurity Capabilities And Earns Two Cyber Catalyst Designations

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter, Research / October 14, 2019

HPE has been busy shoring up its already formidable security capabilities. In addition to Silicon Root of Trust built into its ProLiant, Synergy, Apollo, SimpliVity, and Edgeline servers, the company rolled out new functionality that drives end-to-end lifecycle security. On top of this, two HPE hardware and software solutions recently received Cyber Catalyst designations: Silicon Root of …

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AMD EPYC Is Poised For Big Gains, But Not For The Reasons You Think

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter, Research, Server / September 10, 2019

AMD garnered a lot of attention with the launch of its EPYC 7002 Series processor a couple of weeks ago, and with good reason. It’s a highly performant part with a feature set that differentiates the product from the rest of market. The press has been very positive in its coverage of EPYC. The strength of …

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All Roads Lead To An Epyc “Rome” For Enterprise IT

By / Datacenter, Research / August 22, 2019

In case you weren’t convinced by AMD’s re-entry to the server market with the initial launch of EPYC in 2017, the company today launched an what I consider an incredible follow-on product with EPYC 7002 Series (codenamed Rome). While the market was excited to see the company re-enter the market with the original EPYC CPU, …

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Things Are About To Get Interesting In Chipville, Datacenter

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter / July 8, 2019

There’s been a lot of noise in the datacenter CPU market over the last few months. Intel launched its 2nd Generation Scalable Xeon Processor (codenamed Cascade Lake). Arm is winning in the cloud and seems to be finding momentum with its N1 & E1 processors. And let’s not forget AMD —in addition to finding momentum in the HPC space, the …

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What Lenovo TruScale Consumption-Based Infrastructure Services Means For IT

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter / March 4, 2019

Lenovo announced its new TruScale Infrastructure Services today, a service in which IT organizations deploy Lenovo ThinkSystem or ThinkAgile platforms and only pay for the compute resources consumed. There’s a few questions I’d like to address here. Why did Lenovo launch this service? What does it mean for IT organizations? What does it mean for Lenovo’s …

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AWS Expands Compute Instances With Graviton A1 And Makes Arm Neoverse Real At re:Invent

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter / January 18, 2019

Note: This blog contains contributions from Patrick Moorhead, President, and principal analyst, Moor Insights & Strategy. One major trend we see at Moor Insights & Strategy is for cloud giants to use and sometimes develop their own, specialized silicon to give them a competitive advantage. We’ve seen this at Microsoft Azure, Google GCP, and Alibaba. …

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IoT And Edge Computing: The Wild West Of Cybersecurity

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter / December 6, 2018

Is it me, or has the cybersecurity landscape been a little bit quiet during this national cybersecurity month? After a wild 2017 and early 2018, the cyber threat landscape seems significantly slower. At the very least, the publicity around it has quieted down. Rest assured though, the threats are still there. Many organizations are still …

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IBM POWERs Scale Up With Its Newest Servers

By / Big Data and Storage, Server / August 20, 2018

Note: This blog contains contributions from Moor Insights & Strategy principal analyst, Patrick Moorhead IBM has had a string of success in recent quarters with its Systems business lines and last quarter, was the growth driver for the entire company. Part of that can be attributed to Z mainframes but was also driven by the …

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Edge Computing

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter / August 31, 2018

The topic of edge computing is hot. Every analyst, journalist, and pundit is offering an opinion. Every day, my email “inbox” is filled with enough of those opinions to thoroughly confuse anyone trying to get their head around the basics of edge computing and what all the hype means. So, in a thousand words or …

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Lenovo Launches ThinkAgile CP “Composable Cloud” Platform

By / Server / August 7, 2018

ThinkAgile CP overview LENOVO The market for cloud services and private cloud software is booming based on IT’s desire to simplify and speed up its operations and therefore put more effort into strategic projects and applications. As a former IT practitioner, I cannot tell you how valuable this is, but how difficult it can be to …

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HPE Discover 2018: Livin’ On The Edge

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter, Server / July 10, 2018

Hewlett Packard Enterprise ’s Discover conference was held in Las Vegas last week and the company was laser-focused on edge computing, cloud computing, and the autonomous datacenter. When it comes to technology conferences, most companies strive to paint an inspiring vision of the future. Oftentimes though, that vision is almost science fiction—no real linkage to …

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What Does The Red Hat And IBM Cloud Private And Deep Learning Combination Bring To Enterprise IT?

By / Datacenter / June 12, 2018

IBM has been on a roll lately with POWER Systems. Principal analyst and colleague Patrick Moorhead wrote aboutGoogle deploying POWER9 announced at the OpenPOWER Summit and last week I wrote about  IBM expanding its platform HCI footprint with Nutanix. As another output of a long partnership, IBM and Red Hat recently announced the availability of …

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IBM Extends Its Reach In The Datacenter Through Nutanix

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter, Server / June 1, 2018

IBM has been making a lot of noise in the datacenter recently. In December of 2017, the company’s POWER9 platforms hit the market with a focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI). In March of this year, Rackspace and Google gave the first public peak at the Zaius and Barreleye 2 Open Compute platform at the Open …

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The Curious Case Of Carbonite And The Democratization Of Disaster Recovery

By / Datacenter / April 18, 2018

Every time I hear the name Carbonite, I flash back to the days of listening to sports radio on my daily commute and hearing the commercials promoting the protection of your personal data. It seemed like every five minutes there was another once-hopeless person who was saved by the magic of Carbonite’s data protection and …

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Packet Deploys EPYC-Based Dell EMC Servers: Here’s Why You Should Care

By / Datacenter / March 22, 2018

Bare metal cloud provider Packet is expanding its cloud offerings with the launch of a new, single processor/single socket offering based on Dell  EMC ’s R6415 rack server. This server is designed around the AMD EPYC SoC, a processor designed for scale out implementations and positioned for cloud. Packet’s offering features plenty of compute resources: …

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How Does HyperFlex 3.0 Impact Cisco’s Position In The HCI Space?

By / Datacenter / March 16, 2018

Cisco Systems recently released HyperFlex 3.0 to the market, strengthening its hyperconverged offering considerably. This release sports a number of new features that deliver on Cisco’s vision of any app on any cloud at any time, with a strong focus on simplicity.  The real question is, how does Cisco compare against Nutanix and Dell EMC …

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Can Stratus Make It On The Industrial Edge?

By / Datacenter / March 9, 2018

Stratus launched its new ztC Edge system last week, as part of the company’s push into the industrial edge computing market. This is a move that makes sense, but it’s also a move that will put Stratus in competition with some very well-established edge players. It will additionally put Stratus in competition with Operation Technology …

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Releases iLO Amplifier Pack With Server System Restore

By / Datacenter / March 9, 2018

HPE iLO Hewlett Packard Enterprise has released an update to its iLO Amplifier Pack, making Server System Restore available to customers who have already purchased or downloaded the iLO Amplifier Pack. Server System Restore is a feature that enables the automatic restoration of server operating environments, through the iLO Advanced Premium Security Edition license, following …

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