Infrastructure Matters

Keith and Camberley cover the latest tech notions from the events of the last few weeks, including Tech Field Day on AI, IBM Think and Nutanix .NEXT. Then, reflections on VMware migrations, OpenAI country plans and investments in IBM Quantum. 

The IM team tackles tariffs and decision making for the infrastructure gang, and what to consider and plan for on this bumpy ride. Plus we highlight news from Intel Vision with Gaudi and new data management tool Hydrolix. Lastly, LLM tackles the Turing Test and what it means. Check out Dion's CIO playbook on tariffs:

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On this episode of the Six Five Webcast – Infrastructure Matters, hosts Camberley Bates, Keith Townsend, and Dion Hinchcliffe dive into the highlights and key takeaways from the recent GTC Conference. Topics include NVIDIA’s strategies and dominance in the AI sector, the ongoing challenges of AI infrastructure, and the intriguing concept of a token economy as a measuring tool for AI costs.

On this episode of the Six Five Webcast – Infrastructure Matters, hosts Camberley Bates and Keith Townsend dive into the latest announcements and developments in data infrastructure and AI markets, ahead of GTC. Their discussion delves into new advancements and community engagement shaping the technology landscape.

On this episode of the Six Five Webcast – Infrastructure Matters, hosts Camberley Bates, Keith Townsend, and Dion Hinchcliffe dive into the pivotal role AI plays in driving business earnings, in addition to significant trends in the tech market, innovative advancements in AI, and the impact of global tariffs on the sector.

On this episode of the Six Five Webcast – Infrastructure Matters, hosts Camberley Bates, Keith Townsend, and Dion Hinchcliffe share a conversation on the significant impacts of recent earnings reports, advancements in AI, and the challenges of data management in corporate infrastructure.

Lenovo and Cisco earnings, HPE Gen12 servers, and the implications of the Evo2 Model. What you don't want to hear about W3/Blockchain. Lastly, data management—can unified data systems solve the AI dilemma? 

On this episode of the Six Five Webcast—Infrastructure Matters, hosts Keith Townsend and Dion Hinchcliffe discuss the hottest topics in infrastructure and technology. They cover crucial developments affecting the industry, from the surge in Intel’s stock to the ethical landscape of AI advancement.

Google, Azure and AWS all claim AI capacity constraint -- is it impacting their growth? What is behind this? Plus, more on the latest LLM and other models from Google, DeepSeek and players from Stanford and UWA. Lastly, we get into file systems for AI and what we are seeing from key and new players: Weka, Hammerspace, NetApp, Dell and Vast.

IBM had a strong quarter, and Seagate sets the hard disk drive storage record. Intel cancels its new XPU and pushes out its 1.8 nanometer process chips, while DeepSeek continues recalibrating the generative AI inference world.

Lenovo teams up with Infinidat, NetApp spins off Spot and CloudCheckr to Flexera. Plus, uncover what the Feds are doing around security with executive orders and hear Dion's CIO predictions for 2025! Check out the full list of predictions here: https://dionhinchcliffe.com/2025/01/09/enterprise-tech-predictions-for-2025/

Announcements you should know about from CES, the coming U.S. regulations on AI export controls, plus 2025 predictions for data infrastructure. 

Keith and Camberley do a run down on some of the M&A, investments and valuations from this past year. Then, the super surprising $62 billion valuation of DataBricks. Plus how Broadcom is fairing with VMware (spoiler alert - very well), and NVIDIA's Jetson - how that might be a shift in the industry or not. 

The IM team covers the latest from AWS re:Invent, Google Gemini and what CIO's need to know. Then, they explore what is happening with Quantum and reflect on the intersection of AI, and Camberley covers the big, hairy topics coming out of American Society for AI. Lastly, data protection is front and center with big financial news from Cohesity, Veritas and Veeam.

The team covers the CIO/CTO Roundtable and insights into their priorities, including AI. Then, we cover earnings from Nvidia, NetApp and the trends coming out of KubeCon, SC24 and Microsoft Insight.