In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver B.C. Mauri Whalen, VP & Director of Core System Development in the Open Source Technology Center at Intel, discusses how beneficial open source software innovation like Open Stack is and how the collaborative process helps produce the highest quality code and software possible. She also discusses the importance of initiatives like the Women of OpenStack and how supporting diversity within the open source community enables an overall better end product and ensures that all populations are represented in the creation of different solutions.

In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver B.C. Cathy Spence, Principal Engineer at Intel stops by to talk about Intel’s IT infrastructure move to the cloud and how their focus has evolved to center around agility and self service provisioning on demand services. She discusses how enterprise IT needs more applications that are designed for cloud to take advantage of private cloud implementations and more efficiently use public cloud solutions. Cathy also highlights Intel’s engagement with OpenStack, the Open Data Center Alliance, and other organizations that are driving best practices for cloud and advancing the industry as a whole. To learn more, follow Cathy on Twitter @cw_spence.

In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver B.C. Cathy Spence, Principal Engineer at Intel stops by to talk about Intel’s IT infrastructure move to the cloud and how their focus has evolved to center around agility and self service provisioning on demand services. She discusses how enterprise IT needs more applications that are designed for cloud to take advantage of private cloud implementations and more efficiently use public cloud solutions. Cathy also highlights Intel’s engagement with OpenStack, the Open Data Center Alliance, and other organizations that are driving best practices for cloud and advancing the industry as a whole. To learn more, follow Cathy on Twitter @cw_spence.

In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver B.C., Margaret Chiosi, Distinguished Network Architect at AT&T Labs, stops by to chat about how OpenStack is influencing the telecommunications industry and AT&T’s goals for transforming to a software-centric network. She also discusses the Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualization (OPNFV) project and the work being done to create a platform that is accepted industry wide to ensure consistency, innovation, and interoperability between different open source components.

In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver B.C., Margaret Chiosi, Distinguished Network Architect at AT&T Labs, stops by to chat about how OpenStack is influencing the telecommunications industry and AT&T’s goals for transforming to a software-centric network. She also discusses the Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualization (OPNFV) project and the work being done to create a platform that is accepted industry wide to ensure consistency, innovation, and interoperability between different open source components.

In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver B.C. Ken Won, Director of Cloud Software Product Marketing at HP, chats about the HP Helion strategy that is helping customers shift from traditional to on demand infrastructure environments to drive down costs and deal with common compliance issues. He also describes how HP is heavily engaged in the OpenStack community to help drive the portability and standards for all different types of cloud environments making it easy for end users to shift resources and utilize the right infrastructure based on their application needs. To learn more, visit www.hp.com/helion.

In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver B.C. Curt Aubley, VP and CTO of Data Center Group at Intel stops by to talk about how OpenStack provides a foundational capability for cloud computing that allows customers to tailor and share common technologies to better address their specific needs. Curt discusses Intel® Cloud Integrity Technology and emphasizes how important it is to establish a foundation of trust to allow customers to easily move their workloads into the cloud. He highlights how standard approaches to security help facilitate flexibility and interoperability which in turn lowers levels of risk for everyone in the industry.

Jim Blakley, Visual Cloud Computing General Manager at Intel stops by to chat about the large growth in the use of cloud graphics and media processing applications and the increasing demands these applications are putting on the data center. He discusses the launch of the new Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 v4 Product Family with integrated Intel® Iris™ Pro Graphics which provides up to 1.4x performance vs. the previous generation for video transcoding, as well as substantial improvement in overall media and graphics processing. These improvements not only benefit video quality and graphics rendering for end users, but also bring a better cost of ownership for data center managers by increasing density, throughput, and overall performance per rack. To learn more, visit http://www.intel.com/ and search for Iris™ Pro graphics, Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 v4 Product Family, or Quick Sync Video.

Susan McNeice, Marketing Thought Leadership at Oracle Communications stops by to chat about how OpenStack* Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA), which is built on open source solutions and supported by Intel, is helping the industry re-think strategies for managing a telecommunications cloud. She also discusses how EPA is addressing the gap between orchestrating virtualized network functions (VNF) activity, services into the network, and the conversation with the processor platform that exists today. To learn more, visit http://www.oracle.com/communications .

Susan McNeice, Marketing Thought Leadership at Oracle Communications stops by to chat about how OpenStack* Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA), which is built on open source solutions and supported by Intel, is helping the industry re-think strategies for managing a telecommunications cloud. She also discusses how EPA is addressing the gap between orchestrating virtualized network functions (VNF) activity, services into the network, and the conversation with the processor platform that exists today. To learn more, visit http://www.oracle.com/communications .