Lynn Comp, Director of the Market Development Organization for the Network Products Group at Intel, stops by to chat about the advances that have been made in network virtualization and flexible orchestration enabling applications to be spun up within a virtual machine in minutes instead of months. She outlines how Intel is driving network transformation to a software defined infrastructure (SDI) by enabling network orchestrators to more rapidly apply security protocols to virtual applications. Lynn also highlights how enterprises are already employing virtualized routers, firewalls, and other aspects of network functions virtualization (NFV) and that NFV is already a mainstream trend with lots of reference material and applications available for enterprises to utilize. To learn more, follow Lynn on Twitter @comp_lynn or visit www.intel.com/itcenter.

In this archive of a livecast from Mobile World Congress Guy Shemesh, Senior Director of the CloudBand Business Unit at Alcatel-Lucent stops by to talk about how the CloudBand™ platform enables service providers to accelerate adoption of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). Guy emphasizes how important it is to embrace the open source community in such a rapidly changing industry in order to ensure the ability to adapt to different market trends and capture additional value for customers. To learn more, visit http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/cloudband.

In this archive of a livecast from Mobile World Congress Guy Shemesh, Senior Director of the CloudBand Business Unit at Alcatel-Lucent stops by to talk about how the CloudBand™ platform enables service providers to accelerate adoption of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). Guy emphasizes how important it is to embrace the open source community in such a rapidly changing industry in order to ensure the ability to adapt to different market trends and capture additional value for customers. To learn more, visit http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/cloudband.

Vineeth Ram, VP of Product Marketing at HP Servers chats about how HP is working to reimagine the server for the data driven organization and the wide breadth of solutions that HP has to offer. He outlines how HP is focused on redefining compute and how they are leveraging the infrastructure to deliver significant business outcomes and drive new insights from big data for their customers. To learn more, visit www.hp.com/go/compute.

Vineeth Ram, VP of Product Marketing at HP Servers chats about how HP is working to reimagine the server for the data driven organization and the wide breadth of solutions that HP has to offer. He outlines how HP is focused on redefining compute and how they are leveraging the infrastructure to deliver significant business outcomes and drive new insights from big data for their customers. To learn more, visit www.hp.com/go/compute.

Jim McHugh, VP of UCS & Data Center Solutions Marketing at Cisco stops by to talk about new possibilities that the launch of Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v3 family will bring to Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) in the big data and analytics arena. He emphasizes how new insights driven by big-data can help businesses become intelligence-driven to create a perpetual and renewable competitive edge within their field. To learn more, visit http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/servers-unified-computing/index.html.

Ravi Pendekanti, Vice President of Server Solutions Marketing at Dell stops by to talk about the launch of Dell’s PowerEdge R930 four socket server that incorporates the new Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v3 family. Ravi discusses how the PowerEdge R930 will help enterprise customers migrate from RISC-based servers to more energy efficient servers like the R930 that will deliver greater levels of performance for demanding mission critical workloads and applications. To learn more, visit http://www.dell.com/accelerate.

Scott Hawkins, the Executive Director of Marketing for the Enterprise Business Group at Lenovo stops by to chat about how Lenovo is refreshing their high-end X6 portfolio to bring greater performance and security to its’ customers. He highlights how Lenovo’s X6 portfolio was truly enabled by the leadership collaboration between Intel and IBM and outlines how the launch of the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v3 family incorporated into Lenovo solutions will bring end users the highest levels of processor and storage performance as well as memory capacity and resiliency. To learn more, visit www.lenovo.com/systems.

Scott Hawkins, the Executive Director of Marketing for the Enterprise Business Group at Lenovo stops by to chat about how Lenovo is refreshing their high-end X6 portfolio to bring greater performance and security to its’ customers. He highlights how Lenovo’s X6 portfolio was truly enabled by the leadership collaboration between Intel and IBM and outlines how the launch of the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v3 family incorporated into Lenovo solutions will bring end users the highest levels of processor and storage performance as well as memory capacity and resiliency. To learn more, visit www.lenovo.com/systems.

Lisa Spelman, General Manager of Marketing for the Datacenter Group at Intel discusses the launch of the new Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v3 family and how it is driving significant performance improvements for mission critical applications. She highlights how the incredible 12 terabyte memory capacity of the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v3 is a game changer for in-memory computing that will enable enterprise to capture new business insights through real-time analytics and decision making.