Intel Chip Chat

In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco Mike Ferron Jones, Director of Datacenter Platform Technology Marketing and Greg Matson, Director of SSD Strategic Planning and Product Marketing at Intel discuss the announcement of Intel® Optane™ technology based on Intel’s new 3D XPoint™ technology. They outlined how 3D XPoint technology is an entirely new class of nonvolatile memory that will revolutionize storage enabling high-speed, high-capacity data storage close to the processor. This technology will be made available as SSDs (solid state drives) called Intel Optane technology, as well as in a DIMM (dual in-line memory module) form factor which will open up new possibilities of types of workloads and applications that you can accelerate or take to whole new levels of big memory applications. Greg emphasizes that Intel will be making Optane SSDs available for servers, enthusiast clients, and laptops within 2016.

In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco John Leung, Software & System Architect at Intel and Jeff Autor, Distinguished Technologist with the Servers Business Unit at HP stop by to discuss the release of RedFish 1.0. They highlight how on August 4th 2015 the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force Inc) announced the availability of RedFish version 1.0, an adopted and approved industry standard interface which simplifies the management of scalable compute platforms, and is extensible beyond compute platforms. John and Jeff emphasize how RedFish 1.0 is a great example of what can be accomplished when technology leaders, along the supply chain, truly listen to requests and feedback of end-users, and come together satisfy those request in an open and broad manner.

Jim Blakley, Visual Cloud Computing General Manager at Intel chats about how Intel is driving innovation in visual cloud computing. He talks about the International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) and announces the launch of the Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator, the new Intel® Xeon® E3 – based PCIe add-in card that brings media and graphics capabilities into the Intel Xeon processor E5-based servers. Jim outlines how the Intel Visual Compute Accelerator Card enables real time transcoding specifically targeting AVC and HEVC workloads and reduces the amount of storage and network bandwidth needed to deliver the transcoded video streams. He also highlights several partners that will be demoing Intel technology or in the Intel booth at IBC including; Thomson Video Networks, Envivio, Kontron, Artesyn, and Vantrix. To learn more, follow Jim on Twitter https://twitter.com/jimblakley

In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco Das Kamhout, Principal Engineer and SDI Architect at Intel discusses the Intel Cloud for All Initiative and how Intel is working to enable tens of thousands of new clouds for a variety of usage models across the world. Das illuminates a concept he covered in his IDF session contrasting more traditional types of cloud infrastructure with a new model of cloud based upon the use of containers and the ability to run an application by scheduling processes across a data center. He explains how container based cloud architectures can create a highly efficient delivery of services within the data center by abstracting the infrastructure and allowing application developers to be more flexible. Das also highlights how Intel is investing in broad industry collaborations to create enterprise ready, easy to deploy SDI solutions. To learn more, follow Das on Twitter at https://twitter.com/dkamhout

In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Curt Aubley, VP and CTO of Intel’s Data Center Group stops by to talk about some of the top trends that he sees in data center technology today. Curt emphasizes how the fundamental shift in capabilities in the data center is enabling businesses to create an incredible competitive differentiator when they take advantage of emerging technologies. He brings up how new technologies like Intel’s 3D XPoint™ are creating an amazing impact upon real time analytics and calls out how dynamic resource pooling is helping to drive a transformation in the network and enable the adoption of software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) to remove networking performance bottlenecks. Curt highlights many other data center technology trends from rack scale architecture (RSA) and intelligent orchestration to cutting edge security technologies like Intel® Cloud Integrity Technology.

In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Curt Aubley, VP and CTO of Intel’s Data Center Group stops by to talk about some of the top trends that he sees in data center technology today. Curt emphasizes how the fundamental shift in capabilities in the data center is enabling businesses to create an incredible competitive differentiator when they take advantage of emerging technologies. He brings up how new technologies like Intel’s 3D XPoint™ are creating an amazing impact upon real time analytics and calls out how dynamic resource pooling is helping to drive a transformation in the network and enable the adoption of software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) to remove networking performance bottlenecks. Curt highlights many other data center technology trends from rack scale architecture (RSA) and intelligent orchestration to cutting edge security technologies like Intel® Cloud Integrity Technology.

Caroline Chan, Director of Wireless Access Strategy and Technology at Intel stops by to talk about the shift to 5G within the mobile industry and how the industry will need to solve more challenges than just making the cellular network faster to make this shift possible. She stresses that there needs to be a focus on an end to end system that will enable the communications and computing worlds to merge together to create a more efficient network and better business model overall. Caroline also discusses possible upcoming 5G related showcases that will happen in Asia within the next 3-7 years and how Intel is collaborating immensely with many initiatives in Europe, Asia, and around the world to help drive the innovation of 5G.

Caroline Chan, Director of Wireless Access Strategy and Technology at Intel stops by to talk about the shift to 5G within the mobile industry and how the industry will need to solve more challenges than just making the cellular network faster to make this shift possible. She stresses that there needs to be a focus on an end to end system that will enable the communications and computing worlds to merge together to create a more efficient network and better business model overall. Caroline also discusses possible upcoming 5G related showcases that will happen in Asia within the next 3-7 years and how Intel is collaborating immensely with many initiatives in Europe, Asia, and around the world to help drive the innovation of 5G.

John Healy, General Manager of the Software Defined Networking Division within Intel’s Network Platforms Group stops by to chat about the current network transformation that is occurring and how open standards and software are integral to building the base of a new infrastructure that can keep pace with the insatiable demand being put on the network by end users. He illustrates how Intel is driving these open standards and open source solutions through involvement in initiatives like OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and the development of Intel Network Builders to create interoperability and ease of adoption for end-users. John also highlights the Intel® Open Network Platform and how it has been awarded the LightReading Leading Lights award for being the most Innovative network functions virtualization (NFV) product strategy technology.

Alan Ross, Senior Principal Engineer at Intel outlines how quickly the amount of data that enterprises deal with is scaling from millions to tens of billions and how gaining actionable insight from such unfathomable amounts of data is becoming increasingly challenging. He discusses how Intel is helping to develop analytics platform-as-a-service to better enable flexible adoption of new algorithms and applications that can expose data to end users allowing them to glean near real-time insights from such a constant flood of data. Alan also illustrates the incredible potential for advances in healthcare, disaster preparedness, and data security that can come from collecting and analyzing the growing expanse of big data.