Intel Chip Chat

In this livecast from the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Jim Blakley Visual Cloud Computing General Manager at Intel stops by to talk about the incredible advances that are being made in the visual cloud. He outlines how the visual cloud really covers three main areas of focus including media content creation and delivery, cloud graphics for gaming and virtual desktops, and finally visual understanding which enables image recognition and augmented or virtual reality. Jim highlights how recent advances in cloud computing, a growth in visual computing technologies like deep learning and media transcoding, and the availability of network bandwidth and growth of storage capacity in cloud environments has really helped to catalyze the visual cloud. To learn more, visit www.intel.com/visualcloud

In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Austin Texas, Jonathan Donaldson Data Center Group Vice President and General Manager of Software Defined Infrastructure at Intel stops by to talk about the incredible innovation in cloud computing and the use of Kubernetes and OpenStack to help drive the adoption of enterprise cloud. He discusses how this integration is helping to accelerate hybrid and private cloud allowing workloads to be seamlessly managed across shared infrastructure creating a platform that can be used for any application workload. Jonathan also highlights how important it is that this integration happens in an open source environment so that the entire OpenStack community benefits and drives innovation and the deployment of tens of thousands of new clouds. To learn more, follow Jonathan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jdonalds.

In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Austin Texas, Alex Polvi CEO of CoreOS stops by to talk about the idea of Google’s Infrastructure For Everyone Else (GIFEE) which is a style of infrastructure management that has been proven by the hyperscale giants like Google to provide a very reliable, scalable, and efficient infrastructure. He highlights the collaboration between Intel and CoreOS to deploy and manage OpenStack with Kubernetes in this same GIFEE management style to help drive the creation of many more enterprise clouds. Alex outlines how this collaboration enables organizations to re-platform and move their workloads to the cloud through the use of containerization and achieve similar reliability, scalability, and efficiency as a Google or Amazon based cloud.

Steve Gillaspy, Senior Director of Market Management at Cisco highlights the long time collaboration between Cisco and Intel on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) and how they are bettering customer experience by improving manageability and reducing operational expenses. He discusses the idea of composability and how Cisco is optimizing UCS for better virtualization and cloud applications allowing software to rapidly allocate the appropriate amount of server, storage, and networking for an individual application. Steve expresses how the new Intel® Xeon™ Processor E5-2600 v4 family enables Cisco to add better performance, flexibility, and agility to meet the growing need of traditional, cloud, and scale out applications. To learn more, visit www.cisco.com/servers

Gabriel Broner, Vice President and General Manager of High Performance Computing at SGI, joins us to discuss SGI’s leadership in the high performance computing industry and long standing collaboration with Intel. He shares that the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) recently selected SGI to build one of the world’s most advanced computer systems that will serve as a critical tool for researchers studying seismic activity, air quality, wildfires, and important geoscience topics. Gabriel also discusses SGI’s support for new Intel® Xeon™ Processor E5-2600 v4 family across SGI ICE™ X, ICE XA, and Rackable® platforms. To learn more, visit www.sgi.com.

In this episode, Robert Heath, Vice President of Solutions Business at Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), joins us to talk about QCT’s aim to provide customers a full spectrum of datacenter products and services from engineering, integration and optimization to global supply chain support, all under one roof. He outlines QCT’s partnership with leading independent software vendors (ISVs) and deep collaboration with Intel allowing QCT to provide the entire solution base for customers in a very cost-effective model. Robert also talks about taking advantage of features within the next generation Intel® Xeon® platform to help customers cut down on cost and power consumption and ultimately provide a more well-rounded solution set. To learn more, visit http://www.qct.io.

In this livecast from the Structure Conference in San Francisco David Clarke, Senior Vice President of Technology Development at Workday joins us to talk about how rapidly enterprises are adopting cloud technology for mission critical workloads. He outlines how architecting their platform with the use of in-memory technology and to be metadata driven has allowed Workday to deliver enterprise-class capabilities with the flexibility and agility needed to deal with a quickly growing customer base. David also talks about how Workday has been one of the lead adopters of OpenStack and that the valuable ability to control and influence the virtualization and operating technology in their data center has made OpenStack the clear choice. To learn more, visit www.workday.com.

In this livecast from OpenStack Summit Tokyo Ravi Varanasi, General Manager of Cloud Security Solutions at Intel discusses the importance of security to enable enterprise grade OpenStack. He emphasizes that when a company utilizes OpenStack they receive the benefit of thousands of developers working within the ecosystem to develop the strongest, most robust, most secure product they can build. Ravi also describes how OpenStack can be the catalyst for ensuring that enterprise workloads run on an Intel architecture that is optimized to provide a chain of trust, encryption, and key management solutions to help secure those workloads from many different kinds of compromises.

In this livecast from OpenStack Summit Tokyo Darrin Hanson, Vice President and General Manager of OpenStack Private Cloud at Rackspace joins us to talk about the new OpenStack Innovation Center (OSIC) and the deep collaboration between Intel and Rackspace to accelerate OpenStack development and adoption. He outlines how the collaboration aims to create an environment committed to improving OpenStack in a fully opened source way serving as a launching pad to make OpenStack and all cloud available to everyone in the industry. Darrin highlights the 2,000-node cluster that is available to the public to support large-scale testing of OpenStack and any new features developed through the joint engineering work. He also discusses how Rackspace and Intel will resource OpenStack development, working in collaboration with the OpenStack Enterprise Work Group and community, targeting bug elimination and the development of new enterprise features. To learn more or become an OpenStack contributor, visit http://go.rackspace.com/developercloud

In this livecast from OpenStack Summit Tokyo Chris Buerger, a Technologist in the SDN Marketing Organization at Intel discusses how OpenStack is playing a large role in the transformation that is currently taking place in the network. He outlines how Intel is focusing on contributing to a set of capabilities called Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA) and that these capabilities are already incorporated into a number of OpenStack networking projects including Neutron and Nova. Chris talks about how Intel is working to implement different capabilities that enhance OpenStack orchestrated networks to achieve line-rate throughput and that there are already twelve or so capabilities delivered through EPA that help achieve the performance needed for a carrier grade OpenStack environment. To learn more, visit https://networkbuilders.intel.com/