Matt Kimball, Patrick Moorhead

RESEARCH PAPER: IBM LinuxONE Delivers Performance and Cost Benefits

By / Datacenter, Research Papers / November 23, 2020

Successful technology trends and innovations often have roots in cost reduction, simplicity and business agility. Ironically, in the era of virtualization and consolidation, the datacenter footprint has grown for many businesses, with a corresponding increase in capital expenditures (CapEx) and operational expenditures (OpEx). One of the reasons costs increase through the adoption of technology is …

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Digging Deeper On HPE’s Latest Security Announcements

By / Cybersecurity, Research, Security / October 13, 2020

October kicks off National Cyber Security Month. In what seems to be an annual event, HPE made some security-related announcements that set the company up uniquely in the IT solutions provider market. What are those announcements, and what do they mean for IT organizations? I’ll unpack all of this and give my perspective in the …

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RESEARCH PAPER: The Three Key Elements Of Success In Edge Computing

By / Research, Research Papers / October 10, 2020

We live in an intelligent world. A host of devices shapes the way we live, from the cars we drive and the streets on which those cars are driven, to the power plants that generate electricity to the factories that make the goods we consume. This intelligent world is the result of intelligent infrastructure. The …

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What Do The Server Quarterly Earnings Tell Us?

By / Corporate, Research, Server / September 10, 2020

“Earnings season” has come and gone for the major server vendors, and there’s been much reporting on each company’s financials and respective outlooks. As one would imagine, there’s good and bad to take from nearly every quarterly earnings report, but given these days of Covid-19, it seems like looking at the downside of everything is …

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RESEARCH PAPER: Data Center Modernization Starts With Infrastructure

By / Research, Research Papers / August 6, 2020

Technology drives the business. This statement has always been true but is more relevant than ever. As mature trends take root and new trends emerge, the direct impact on businesses in the digital economy can be significant. Cloud computing and the “cloud model” can increase business agility by enabling faster adoption of new technologies. Businesses may also …

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Do You Know Where Your Servers Come From? Here’s Why Securing The Supply Chain Matters

By / Research, Server / June 2, 2020

Supply chain – it’s a term and topic that is now discussed around dinner tables as families and friends discuss and debate COVID-19’s spotlight on the US dependence on other countries to provide the essential products and materials we need in time of crisis. The other dinner table discussion seems to focus around cybersecurity. With …

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Lenovo Extends Its EPYC Portfolio – Here’s Why IT Should Take Note

By / Datacenter, Research, Server / May 21, 2020

The Lenovo Datacenter Group has been on an impressive run since Kirk Skaugen took over in 2017. The team he assembled quickly and methodically righted the ship, driving market share gains quarter after quarter. They also made smart strategic bets, resulting in success in all segments of its infrastructure business. Server shipments continue to increase, …

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How To Secure The Intelligent Edge

By / Edge Computing, Research, Server / May 4, 2020

It is perhaps the lowest form of human life that uses a crisis like COVID-19 to exploit the vulnerabilities of people and organizations. From price gouging critical supplies to the phishing scams that are hitting email inboxes daily, there have been many reminders lately that the cyber-world is full of actors–individuals, groups, and nation-states–that exploit …

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Arm Neoverse Keeps On Rolling With Marvell ThunderX3 Design

By / Research, Server / April 20, 2020

For those that still think of Arm-based servers as AMD’s Seattle, Applied Micro’s X-Gene, Calxeda, or even Qualcomm, think again. While the specifications of Arm’s Neoverse portfolio looked impressive at launch last year, only time could tell what the implementation of the N1 microarchitecture would look like in the real world. In a word: wow. …

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RESEARCH PAPER: Cybersecurity In The Edge Era – A Practitioner’s Guide

By / Research, Research Papers / May 1, 2020

In today’s world, business intelligence is the fuel that drives digital transformation. Business intelligence starts with raw data, generated at “the edge” by devices and sensors that make up the world of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The exponential growth of IoT and IIoT has created a corresponding …

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Six Questions To Ask When Evaluating Hybrid Cloud Solutions

By / Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Hybrid cloud, Research / March 6, 2020

Hybrid cloud is hot right now. Nearly every IT organization claims to have a solution deployed, but very few actually do. Instead, they have a private cloud with some level of integration with multiple cloud instances. In the next few articles, we will attempt to spell out what makes a hybrid cloud environment hybrid, and …

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What Does VMware Changing Its Licensing Model Mean For Enterprise IT?

By / Datacenter, Enterprise Networking, Research / March 2, 2020

VMware recently announced a change to its software licensing model that caps the number of cores supported in the CPU, effective April 2, 2020. Why did VMware do this? What is the real impact to IT? And what does this mean for the VMware ecosystem and competitive landscape? The next few paragraphs will try to tackle these …

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Analyst Quick Take: Cisco Appoints Dr. Lisa Su To Board Of Directors

By / Datacenter, Research, Server / February 18, 2020

Cisco Systems, Inc. appointed AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su to its board of directors on Monday, January 27th. What does this mean for Cisco? And how does AMD benefit from this appointment? This quick take will attempt to answer these questions and more.  First, what does this appointment mean for Cisco? Cisco employs over 70,000 …

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What AMD And Intel Quarterly Numbers Say About Datacenter Business

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter, Research / February 18, 2020

Earnings season is in full swing—both AMD and Intel announced 4th quarter (and annual) results recently. Both companies claimed strong quarters with robust growth. The following few paragraphs will attempt to dissect those numbers in a little more detail and provide some guidance on what these numbers say about the 2020 business outlook. AMD EESC – …

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RESEARCH PAPER: Building A Better Cloud Begins With Better Infrastructure

By / Research, Research Papers / May 1, 2020

The modern enterprise lives in a multi-cloud world, where delivery of infrastructure resources and IT services is expected in real time. Infrastructure and operations teams must, in turn, respond to the needs of the business rapidly. The result, all too often, is infrastructure complexity and “sprawl” – far too many platforms, and management tools that …

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Two AWS Re:Invent Announcements That Will Have Long-Lasting Impact On The Enterprise Datacenter

By / Datacenter, Enterprise Networking, Research / December 16, 2019

AWS re:Invent came and went, and what a week it was. While the total number of announcements out of the conference was huge, the company itself made 13 significant announcements. These ranged from 5G to edge to core infrastructure to Quantum computing. Moor Insights & Strategy Principal Analyst Patrick Moorhead provided some great coverage that …

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RESEARCH PAPER: Scaling The Needs Of Enterprise With HPE ProLiant

By / Research, Research Papers / May 1, 2020

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) launched the HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen 10 and HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen 10 servers in 2017, based on the 1st Generation AMD EPYC processor, it marked the return of choice to the datacenter. IT organizations that sought to deliver performant platforms securely and lower total cost of ownership had a …

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Dell EMC PowerOne: Is The Future Of Autonomous Infrastructure Here?

By / Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Research / December 2, 2019

Dell Technologies has been busy in the press since it launched PowerOne. What is PowerOne? What does it mean for enterprise IT? And is it really autonomous infrastructure? The next few paragraphs will address these questions. For a deeper dive on PowerOne, visit the Moor Insights & Strategy site. PowerOne – pragmatic innovation drives the autonomy journey Autonomous …

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RESEARCH PAPER: A New Ecosystem For A New Era In Compute

By / Research, Research Papers / May 1, 2020

We live in a distributed world where APIs and microservices rule the datacenter, and the datacenter is no longer a physical construct; rather, it’s a combination of clouds, edges and remote computing centers that drive the modern business. Cloud computing and edge computing require applications to be more mobile, resilient, manageable and secure, and this need, in …

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Research Paper: Dell EMC PowerOne Accelerates IT Transformation Through Autonomous Infrastructure

By / Research, Research Papers / May 1, 2020

This paper will explore the dynamics driving automation in enterprise IT organizations and demonstrate how new products like Dell EMC’s PowerOne meet evolving business needs by delivering cloud-like services to the business while freeing IT resources from the mundane tasks that bog down productivity. You can download the paper by clicking on the logo below: …

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