Intel Chip Chat

Accenture has partnered with Intel to provide Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory to its SAP HANA clients. In this episode, we talk with Jolie LeBlanc, Business Strategy Manager in the Semiconductor Practice at Accenture Strategy, about the partnership, the challenges and opportunities Accenture clients face with their in-memory databases, and how Intel® OptaneTM DC persistent memory can help. As one of the first system integrators with a comprehensive understanding of how to use and manage this new technology, Accenture has a unique perspective on how SAP HANA users can capitalize on this new technology category.

The challenge many SAP HANA users face is that the ever-increasing database size drives up infrastructure costs and/or restricts users from keeping all relevant working data sets in their SAP HANA in-memory database – which limits the value users can derive from it. This is where Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory comes in.

Based on Accenture’s testing, LeBlanc describes the benefits of persistent memory for SAP HANA users, including the potential for several large data sets to fit into memory rather than storage. Accenture clients can now process data faster to achieve faster business insights. And due to persistence, there is less waiting for data loading.

To learn more, visit intel.com/optanedcpersistentmemory

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Joaquin Ruiz, Senior Director of Product Management at NetApp*, joins Chip Chat to talk about facilitating data access and analysis with Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory. Ruiz is responsible for product management for NetApp advanced memory solutions, including the MAX Data* memory tiering solution. MAX Data enables a plug-and-play approach to using Intel Optane DC persistent memory with a number of applications, providing access to persistent memory without changes to the application itself. In this interview, Ruiz speaks to the effects of today's data explosion and how NetApp is helping to address storage and data challenges for customers in an array of verticals including financial services, government, retail, and healthcare. Ruiz notes that simply having data is no longer enough -- what counts is the ability to analyze and quickly act on data. Ruiz additionally forecasts how advancements like persistent memory will influence storage architectures in the future, including making large-scale data analysis less expensive and more available to more organizations.

By spanning across multiple servers, MAX Data enables persistent memory to be viewed as one continuous pool, multiplying by a factor of 25 the amount of persistent memory sitting on your servers[1]. NetApp testing has indicated that by reducing CPU wait time via efficient tiering, MAX Data can accelerate the performance of massively scalable database applications by up to 5x while significantly reducing infrastructure cost[2]. For more information on NetApp, please visit https://netapp.com.

Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more information go to www.intel.com/benchmarks.

[1] For every 1TB of Intel Optane DC persistent memory, NetApp MAX Data v1.3 is designed to support 25TB of flash as a second tier. Please visit https://www.netapp.com/us/products/data-management-software/max-data.aspx for details.

[2] 5x massively scalable database application acceleration with reduced infrastructure cost based on NetApp testing. Please visit https://www.netapp.com/us/products/data-management-software/max-data.aspx for details.

Intel technologies' features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at intel.com.

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Joaquin Ruiz, Senior Director of Product Management at NetApp*, joins Chip Chat to talk about facilitating data access and analysis with Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory. Ruiz is responsible for product management for NetApp advanced memory solutions, including the MAX Data* memory tiering solution. MAX Data enables a plug-and-play approach to using Intel Optane DC persistent memory with a number of applications, providing access to persistent memory without changes to the application itself. In this interview, Ruiz speaks to the effects of today's data explosion and how NetApp is helping to address storage and data challenges for customers in an array of verticals including financial services, government, retail, and healthcare. Ruiz notes that simply having data is no longer enough -- what counts is the ability to analyze and quickly act on data. Ruiz additionally forecasts how advancements like persistent memory will influence storage architectures in the future, including making large-scale data analysis less expensive and more available to more organizations.

By spanning across multiple servers, MAX Data enables persistent memory to be viewed as one continuous pool, multiplying by a factor of 25 the amount of persistent memory sitting on your servers[1]. NetApp testing has indicated that by reducing CPU wait time via efficient tiering, MAX Data can accelerate the performance of massively scalable database applications by up to 5x while significantly reducing infrastructure cost[2]. For more information on NetApp, please visit https://netapp.com.

Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more information go to www.intel.com/benchmarks.

[1] For every 1TB of Intel Optane DC persistent memory, NetApp MAX Data v1.3 is designed to support 25TB of flash as a second tier. Please visit https://www.netapp.com/us/products/data-management-software/max-data.aspx for details.

[2] 5x massively scalable database application acceleration with reduced infrastructure cost based on NetApp testing. Please visit https://www.netapp.com/us/products/data-management-software/max-data.aspx for details.

Intel technologies' features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at intel.com.

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Prasanna Sundararajan, founder and CEO for rENIAC, Inc., joins Chip Chat to talk about using Intel® FPGAs to accelerate demanding data-centric applications. rENIAC's solutions leverage Intel FPGAs to help customers surmount the unprecedented challenges presented by new data opportunities. Its Data Engine solution provides an intermediary layer between Apache Cassandra* clients and database nodes, bringing storage closer to the network through intelligent caching and accelerating transactional and AI applications. In this interview, Sundararajan discusses his and rENIAC's work, the bottlenecks that rENIAC and its customers have encountered when using NoSQL databases like Apache Cassandra, and how rENIAC data engine, Intel FPGAs, and Intel® Optane SSDs are helping customers eliminate these bottlenecks.

To learn more about rENIAC, please visit https://www.reniac.com/. To learn more about Intel FPGAs, please visit http://intel.com/fpga and follow http://twitter.com/intelfpga on Twitter.

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In this 10 min podcast, William Bell, Executive VP of Product at Cloud Service Provider phoenixNAP, discusses how cloud infrastructure is changing and how his team approaches meeting customer needs.

Today's IaaS product offerings need to offer customers the freedom to leverage the right infrastructure for specific workloads. Customers are requiring infrastructure optimizations that support specific applications and are looking for the latest technology to improve performance while remaining cost-effective.

phoenixNAP works with end-users to help ensure their specific workloads and applications are running on the best infrastructure possible. Partnering with Intel, phoenixNAP can offer their customers the latest cloud innovations such as Intel® Optane DC Persistent Memory, Intel® Deep Learning Boost and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 ensuring their customers gain optimal performance in the cloud.

Bell discusses how phoenixNAP end-customer, Panzura, improved their elastic search capabilities through advances offered within the IaaS powered by 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. For more information on their IaaS platform visit phoenixNAP.com.

To learn more about how Intel is helping CSP's increase performance and lower TCO visit Intel.com/CSP.

Intel technologies' features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at intel.com.

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*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

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In this 10 min podcast, William Bell, Executive VP of Product at Cloud Service Provider phoenixNAP, discusses how cloud infrastructure is changing and how his team approaches meeting customer needs.

Today's IaaS product offerings need to offer customers the freedom to leverage the right infrastructure for specific workloads. Customers are requiring infrastructure optimizations that support specific applications and are looking for the latest technology to improve performance while remaining cost-effective.

phoenixNAP works with end-users to help ensure their specific workloads and applications are running on the best infrastructure possible. Partnering with Intel, phoenixNAP can offer their customers the latest cloud innovations such as Intel® Optane DC Persistent Memory, Intel® Deep Learning Boost and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 ensuring their customers gain optimal performance in the cloud.

Bell discusses how phoenixNAP end-customer, Panzura, improved their elastic search capabilities through advances offered within the IaaS powered by 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. For more information on their IaaS platform visit phoenixNAP.com.

To learn more about how Intel is helping CSP's increase performance and lower TCO visit Intel.com/CSP.

Intel technologies' features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at intel.com.

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In this Chip Chat podcast, two storage technology experts, Dr. Felipe Franciosi from Nutanix, and Nate Marushak from Intel, describe how the open source reference library called SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit) brings higher performance to the hyperconverged data center today – and holds promise for the future.

A decade ago, when slow hard disk drives were the heart of a data center, efficiency was improved by designing software to avoid accessing physical media. Innovations in persistent memory and in networking technology have already brought vast improvements. High throughput and low latency are key. For systems that are latency-sensitive, applying SPDK can address software bottlenecks and open the way to even higher performance.

To learn about the SPDK open community, see what companies are doing, and get involved, visit spdk.io.

For information about Nutanix and its SPDK activities, including presentations, Google “Nutanix SPDK.” The company site is nutanix.com.

To learn more about Intel data center storage technologies visit https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/intel-optane-technology/reimagine-memory-storage-in-the-data-center.html.

Intel technologies’ features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No computer system can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at intel.com.

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*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

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In this Chip Chat podcast, two storage technology experts, Dr. Felipe Franciosi from Nutanix, and Nate Marushak from Intel, describe how the open source reference library called SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit) brings higher performance to the hyperconverged data center today – and holds promise for the future.

A decade ago, when slow hard disk drives were the heart of a data center, efficiency was improved by designing software to avoid accessing physical media. Innovations in persistent memory and in networking technology have already brought vast improvements. High throughput and low latency are key. For systems that are latency-sensitive, applying SPDK can address software bottlenecks and open the way to even higher performance.

To learn about the SPDK open community, see what companies are doing, and get involved, visit spdk.io.

For information about Nutanix and its SPDK activities, including presentations, Google “Nutanix SPDK.” The company site is nutanix.com.

To learn more about Intel data center storage technologies visit https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/intel-optane-technology/reimagine-memory-storage-in-the-data-center.html.

Intel technologies’ features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No computer system can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at intel.com.

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*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

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Brian Bulkowski, founder of Aerospike, joins Chip Chat to talk about how Aerospike is facilitating a new class of databases for Internet-scale customers. Aerospike is a database company that created a ground-up platform to support the larger datasets and operational databases driven by use cases like retail catalogs, fraud detection, and telecommunications. In this interview, Bulkowski discusses how Aerospike is working to support customers generating terabytes of data from billions of transactions every day and shares his thoughts on Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory, which Aerospike has found to reduce the restart time for an 8.7 TB database by up to 135x[1]. For more information on Aerospike, please visit aerospike.com.

[1] Tests performed by Intel and Aerospike as of 27 February 2019 demonstrated that an 8.7 TB database could be restarted in as little as 35 seconds on a server configured with DRAM + Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory versus up to 4,745 seconds (1 hr 19 m 5 s) on a server configured with an equivalent amount of DRAM-only memory, for details see https://intel.ly/2vFT5m5.

All information provided here is subject to change without notice. Contact your Intel representative to obtain the latest Intel product specifications and roadmaps.

Intel processors of the same SKU may vary in frequency or power as a result of natural variability in the production process.

For more information about performance and benchmark data, visit www.intel.com/benchmarks.

Intel does not control or audit third-party benchmark data or the web sites referenced in this document. You should visit the referenced web site and confirm whether referenced data are accurate.

Performance results are based on testing and may not reflect all publicly available security updates. See configuration disclosure for details. No product can be absolutely secure.

Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products.

Optimization Notice: Optimization Notice: Intel's compilers may or may not optimize to the same degree for non-Intel microprocessors for optimizations that are not unique to Intel microprocessors. These optimizations include SSE2, SSE3, and SSSE3 instruction sets and other optimizations. Intel does not guarantee the availability, functionality, or effectiveness of any optimization on microprocessors not manufactured by Intel. Microprocessor-dependent optimizations in this product are intended for use with Intel microprocessors. Certain optimizations not specific to Intel microarchitecture are reserved for Intel microprocessors. Please refer to the applicable product User and Reference Guides for more information regarding the specific instruction sets covered by this notice. Notice Revision #20110804

Intel disclaims all express and implied warranties, including without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, as well as any warranty arising from course of performance, course of dealing, or usage in trade.

This interview contains information on products, services, and or processes in development. All information provided here is subject to change without notice. Contact your Intel representative to obtain the latest forecast, schedule, specifications, and roadmaps.

The products and services described may contain defects or errors known as errata which may cause deviations from published specifications. Current characterized errata are available on request.

Brian Bulkowski, founder of Aerospike, joins Chip Chat to talk about how Aerospike is facilitating a new class of databases for Internet-scale customers. Aerospike is a database company that created a ground-up platform to support the larger datasets and operational databases driven by use cases like retail catalogs, fraud detection, and telecommunications. In this interview, Bulkowski discusses how Aerospike is working to support customers generating terabytes of data from billions of transactions every day and shares his thoughts on Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory, which Aerospike has found to reduce the restart time for an 8.7 TB database by up to 135x[1]. For more information on Aerospike, please visit aerospike.com.

[1] Tests performed by Intel and Aerospike as of 27 February 2019 demonstrated that an 8.7 TB database could be restarted in as little as 35 seconds on a server configured with DRAM + Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory versus up to 4,745 seconds (1 hr 19 m 5 s) on a server configured with an equivalent amount of DRAM-only memory, for details see https://intel.ly/2vFT5m5.

All information provided here is subject to change without notice. Contact your Intel representative to obtain the latest Intel product specifications and roadmaps.

Intel processors of the same SKU may vary in frequency or power as a result of natural variability in the production process.

For more information about performance and benchmark data, visit www.intel.com/benchmarks.

Intel does not control or audit third-party benchmark data or the web sites referenced in this document. You should visit the referenced web site and confirm whether referenced data are accurate.

Performance results are based on testing and may not reflect all publicly available security updates. See configuration disclosure for details. No product can be absolutely secure.

Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products.

Optimization Notice: Optimization Notice: Intel's compilers may or may not optimize to the same degree for non-Intel microprocessors for optimizations that are not unique to Intel microprocessors. These optimizations include SSE2, SSE3, and SSSE3 instruction sets and other optimizations. Intel does not guarantee the availability, functionality, or effectiveness of any optimization on microprocessors not manufactured by Intel. Microprocessor-dependent optimizations in this product are intended for use with Intel microprocessors. Certain optimizations not specific to Intel microarchitecture are reserved for Intel microprocessors. Please refer to the applicable product User and Reference Guides for more information regarding the specific instruction sets covered by this notice. Notice Revision #20110804

Intel disclaims all express and implied warranties, including without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, as well as any warranty arising from course of performance, course of dealing, or usage in trade.

This interview contains information on products, services, and or processes in development. All information provided here is subject to change without notice. Contact your Intel representative to obtain the latest forecast, schedule, specifications, and roadmaps.

The products and services described may contain defects or errors known as errata which may cause deviations from published specifications. Current characterized errata are available on request.