DataCenter Podcast: Episode 51 – Talking SailPoint, Intel, Quantum, Marvell, Microsoft, IBM & AMD

Welcome to this week’s edition of “MI&S Datacenter Podcast.” Join Moor Insights & Strategy co-hosts Matt, Will, and Paul as they analyze the week’s top datacenter and datacenter edge news. They talk compute, cloud, security, storage, networking, operations, data management, AI, quantum, and more!

On this week’s show we covered:

00:00 Intro
9:03 SailPoint’s Agentic Wind
19:36 Only Cheaters Bid With Quantum
24:36 The Intel Comeback Tour Continues
30:14 Marvell’s System Development Journey
33:43 Microfluidics Can Be Massively Disruptive
39:37 Latency Could Undo The IBM-AMD Supercomputer

SailPoint’s Agentic Wind
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wstownsend_sailpoint-ushers-in-new-era-of-adaptive-identity-activity-7378794063438778368-Nt-f/

Only Cheaters Bid With Quantum
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17715v1

The Intel Comeback Tour Continues
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7378195648267001857/

Marvell’s System Development Journey
https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/analyst-insight-marvells-trailblazing-efforts-in-system-development/

Microfluidics Can Be Massively Disruptive
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7377106369843441664/

Latency Could Undo The IBM-AMD Supercomputer
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-08-26-ibm-and-amd-join-forces-to-build-the-future-of-computing

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Will Townsend
VP & Principal Analyst |  + posts

Will Townsend manages the networking and security practices for Moor Insights & Strategy focused on carrier infrastructure providers, carrier services, enterprise networking and security. He brings over 30 years of technology industry experience in a variety of product, marketing, channel, business development and sales roles to his advisory position.

Matt Kimball
VP & Principal Analyst |  + posts

Matt Kimball is a Moor Insights & Strategy senior datacenter analyst covering servers and storage. Matt’s 25 plus years of real-world experience in high tech spans from hardware to software as a product manager, product marketer, engineer and enterprise IT practitioner.  This experience has led to a firm conviction that the success of an offering lies, of course, in a profitable, unique and targeted offering, but most importantly in the ability to position and communicate it effectively to the target audience.

Paul Smith-Goodson
VP & Principal Analyst |  + posts

Paul Smith-Goodson is the Moor Insights & Strategy Vice President and Principal Analyst for quantum computing and artificial intelligence.  His early interest in quantum began while working on a joint AT&T and Bell Labs project and, during 360 overviews of Murray Hill advanced projects, Peter Shor provided an overview of his ground-breaking research in quantum error correction. 

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