In this episode, Christian interviews Kurtis Bowman, President of the Gen-Z Consortium. They discuss next-generation server architecture and how the Gen-Z standard will help customers drive higher utilization and greater flexibility.

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Episode 2 of Talking IO's thirds season is all about ongoing education. Stewart and Christian discuss what they do to keep up to date in their field, and how we keep sane by learning outside of our paychecks.

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Christian Cloud and Stewart Harmon catch up and kick off Season 3 Episode 1. No specific tech talk track.

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Bill Dawkins, Ph.D., Dell EMC Fellow, Office of the CTO, joins us to discuss the server platform of the future.

With data growth exploding, the need to utilize more compute resources than ever continues to push the boundaries of technology. Bill is helping to deliver the server platform of the future, focusing on two areas: Disaggregated Servers and
Memory Centric Architecture

We discuss the data challenges customers are facing, how the explosion of IoT will continue delivering new challenges and opportunities, and the technologies being delivered to address them.

We also discuss the difference between HyperConverged, Composable, and Disaggregated, and the future of orchestration.

For more information on the topics discussed today, visit:

• https://blog.dellemc.com/en-us/server-disaggregation-sometimes-the-sum-of-the-parts-is-greater-than-the-whole/
• https://blog.dellemc.com/en-us/composable-infrastructure-today-and-tomorrow/
• https://genzconsortium.org/
• https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish

Follow Bill on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawkins/

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Season 2 kicks off with James McCormick joining us to talk Scale-Out NAS, Unstructured Data, Isilon, and ECS. We discuss how customers can build a cloud native environment, save operational costs, and deliver better performance.

For all the details, go to www.DellEMC.com/Isilon

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In Episode 10, Matt Bradach joins us again. We discuss Dell EMC's ScaleIO. A highly flexible and high performing Software Defined Storage solution that can run on commodity servers or in the cloud.

For all the details, go to www.DellEMC.com/ScaleIO.

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Allen Clingerman joins us to discuss Microsoft Azure Stack, and the Dell EMC Cloud for Azure Stack Solutions. This is a great on-premise, private hybrid cloud offering, with 100% consistency with public Azure. Join us to learn more, and check out the sites below for more detail:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/

https://www.dellemc.com/en-us/solutions/cloud/microsoft-azure-stack.htm

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Episode 8 has Matt Bradach joining us to discuss Dell EMC's XtremIO. XtremIO is a high performance, high end storage array build with all-flash, from the ground up. Matt walks us through use cases, product details and more. This is the ideal product for VDI, anything that requires predictable performance, an of course anything that needs screaming fast speed (like SAP HANA).

For all the details, go to www.DellEMC.com/XtremIO

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In Episode 7 - Matt Bradach, Dell EMC Storage SE, joins us to discuss storage and the new Future Proof customer loyalty program just introduced by Dell EMC.

We discuss the general storage market, and what makes mid-range storage, mid-range storage. We also discuss the 6 pillars of the new Dell EMC Future Proof Program:

• 3 Year Satisfaction Guarantee
• 4:1 Storage Efficiency Guarantee
• Never-Worry Data Migrations
• Hardware Investment Protection
• All-Inclusive Software
• Built-In Virtustream Storage Cloud

For all the details, go to www.DellEMC.com/Future-Proof

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Mark Perry, with Nutanix, joins us to discuss how to get into Cloud. We also deep dive on Hyper Converged Infrastructure, what really makes up the cloud, and what Digital Transformation means.

For more information, call your friendly sales rep or favorite channel partner. You can also check out:

http://nutanixbible.com/

http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/povw/dell-xc-series

You can reach on Mark on Twitter @perry_ntnx

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In Episode 5, we continue our Cloud Series, this time with Converged Platform Solutions. Paul Emhoff, Channel vArchitect with Dell EMC, provides an in-depth review of Dell EMC's Converged Platform Solutions.

We discuss the evolution of former VCE to Dell EMC Converged Platform Solutions Division (CPSD), and how these solutions help deliver business value fast and with less downtime.

For more information, check out:

http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/learn/converged-infrastructure

http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/povw/vmware-vxrail

For partners and resellers:

https://www.emc.com/auth/rpage/enablement-centers.htm

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