Intel Chip Chat

Dr. Casimir Wierzynski, Senior Director for the Office of the CTO in the AI Products Group (AIPG) at Intel, joins us to discuss explainable AI. A key topic at NIPS 2017, explainable AI systems are those in which the AI algorithm's inner workings are revealed transparently and can be easily understood by humans. Dr. Wierzynski contrasts this with neural networks in which it is more challenging to analyze the network's component parts. In this interview, Dr. Wierzynski talks about why explainable AI is of particular interest when developing artificial neural networks, how the new, Intel-supported Partnership on AI (https://www.partnershiponai.org/) is driving cross-industry collaboration in explainable AI, and how explainable AI provides opportunities to increase trust in AI systems. For more information, please read Dr. Wierzynski's blog post, "The Challenges and Opportunities of Explainable AI," (http://intel.ly/2F24Nd4) and read further about Dr. Wierzynski's work at https://ai.intel.com.

Raejeanne Skillern, VP and GM of the Cloud Service Provider Platform Group at Intel, joins us to discuss the work Intel has been doing to ensure that global cloud service providers (CSPs) have all of the technology they need, when they need it, to grow their business at hyperscale. Intel works closely with CSPs to build efficient and optimized solutions that fit their specific use-cases. Raejeanne also discusses the recently announced Intel® Xeon® D-2100 processor, Intel’s fastest low-power edge processor, which extends the innovations introduced with the Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform, Intel’s biggest data center advancement in a decade, to edge and cloud environments constrained by space or power. For more information on the new Intel® Xeon® D-2100 Processor, please visit www.intel.com/xeond, or follow Raejeanne on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RaejeanneS.

Caroline Chan outlines what 5G can do for you. She shares excitement around major 5G announcements from carriers, industry organizations and developments from Intel and its ecosystem. Chan explains how carriers can use the cloud capabilities provided by 5G at the edge to slice the network. These dedicated, network slices can support custom services and applications that meet the requirements of any vertical industry.

Finally, Chan outlines how the new Intel® Xeon® D-2100 expands and enriches the Intel portfolio of edge solutions with advanced data center intelligence. Because the network edge requires rugged, energy-efficient deployments, Xeon® D-2100 integrates functions into system on a chip (SOC) form factor to deliver high performance levels that meet requirements for lower power and space limitations. Supports high-density, network end-points for use cases, such as network slicing, autonomous driving and more.

Connect with Caroline on Twitter at https://twitter.com/CarolineChan5G.

Susan Blocher, VP for Hybrid Infrastructure Marketing at HPE, joins us live from HPE Discover 2017 to discuss how HPE hybrid infrastructure is helping deliver social good and scientific discovery. Blocher works to help make IT simple and tell the stories that demonstrate how HPE technologies are delivering business outcomes and driving competitive advantage. In this interview, Blocher discusses how HPE data and analytics technologies and Intel infrastructure are enhancing the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's (NCMEC) ability to combat child victimization. Blocher additionally speaks to HPE's partnership with Stephen Hawking’s COSMOS Research Group and the Cambridge Faculty of Mathematics. For more information on HPE Hybrid IT, please visit https://hpe.com.

John Healy joins Chip Chat to talk about the new Software Defined Datacenter Solutions approach to a number of the digital transformation challenges facing the companies that operate communication, enterprise, cloud and IoT datacenters. John’s team has taken its vast experience with partners in the communication service provider market and is applying virtualization and software-defined datacenter innovations in the areas of networking, storage and compute resources. The result is a portfolio of integrated, vertical-market aligned solutions focused on specific set of functionality and use cases. These packaged solutions and experience kits are intended to support repeatable implementations for some of the today’s most complex use cases. www.networkbuilders.com

John Healy joins Chip Chat to talk about the new Software Defined Datacenter Solutions approach to a number of the digital transformation challenges facing the companies that operate communication, enterprise, cloud and IoT datacenters. John’s team has taken its vast experience with partners in the communication service provider market and is applying virtualization and software-defined datacenter innovations in the areas of networking, storage and compute resources. The result is a portfolio of integrated, vertical-market aligned solutions focused on specific set of functionality and use cases. These packaged solutions and experience kits are intended to support repeatable implementations for some of the today’s most complex use cases. www.networkbuilders.com

Bill Philbin manages HPE’s storage hybrid IT function. In this episode, he explains why storage needs to be invisible and how the experience is starting to match the expectation. Bill discusses the recent acquisition of Nimble, which completed HPE’s storage offering and accelerated its transition to all flash, and the benefits of adding AI to InfoSight, the software used to manage Nimble Storage. For more information about HPE storage solutions, visit https://hpe.com/storage.

Christine Frank, Director of Worldwide IoT Industry Partnerships at HPE, explains how the Connect IoT ecosystem drives digitization through IoT. Focusing on the industrial internet of things, automation, and process, Christine helps companies bridge information technology and operational technology. In this episode, she talks about the impact of artificial intelligence on IoT industry solutions and presents multiple industrial IoT use cases for AI. For more information on HPE IoT solutions, please visit hpe.com/IoT.

Paul Miller, VP of Marketing for Software Defined and Cloud at HPE, joins us live from HPE Discover 2017 in Madrid. Miller's responsibilities include heading marketing for HPE's OneView software-defined infrastructure enablement software, SimpliVity hyperconverged platform, and OneSphere multi-cloud management platform. In this interview, Miller discusses HPE's vision for hybrid IT, market progress towards software-defined multi-cloud environments, the benefits of composable infrastructure, and how HPE is enabling Microsoft AzureStack for more customers. For more information on HPE's solutions for hybrid cloud, please visit http://hpe.com/infrastructure.

Kannan Mani, Worldwide Principal Architect for Enterprise Data and Analytics Platforms, at HPE, joins us live from HPE Discover 2017 in Madrid. Mani is responsible for making sure that HPE's customers and partners can effectively deploy performant HPE-based analytics solutions. In this interview, Mani discusses the importance of HPE's and Intel's data center workload verification and optimization efforts to delivering the capabilities that enterprise customers need, how these capabilities are catalyzing discussion with HPE's customers about SQL16 and Gen10 HPE servers, and how HPE's customers are responding to these advances. For more information on HPE's Intel-based analytics solutions, please visit http://www.hpe.com/info/dm-ra. Discover how advanced analytics can help transform your business: intel.com/analytics.