March 18 2019: Inside the latest Server & Storage Numbers + Recent DataCenter News
The latest server and storage market numbers are out, and there are some big winners. And some big losers. Matt & Steve go all "inside-baseball" and talk about what it all means. They also touch on recent news around NVIDIA's Mellanox acquisition, Intel's CXL consortium, and the momentum of the Chinese technology providers. 01:30 IDC Releases 4Q2018 Server Market Numbers 06:08 What's it mean for the HyperScalers? 10:10 What's happening with Huawei? 11:55 Lenovo Data Center team is on fire 14:14 Is there a real slow-down in the server market? Or are we waiting on new parts? 17:50 IDC Releases 4Q2018 Storage Market Numbers 21:30 Hitachi and Storage 23:30 Can you pick the storage market winner from Hardware sales numbers? 24:50 Where's Pure Storage? 26:20 How does Capacity-on-Demand factor into how we count storage & servers? 28:40 Units vs Revenue in the Storage Market 31:30 News: Intel CXL Consortium 35:00 News: NVIDIA buys Mellanox 37:40 Wrapping Up: Where are Steve & Matt spending the next few weeks?