Intel Chip Chat

Richard Seroter, the Director of Product Management at CenturyLink Cloud, stops by to talk about building a global infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform to deliver both public and private clouds, and also discusses the recent launch of CenturyLink’s hyperscale high-performance cloud platform, designed for web-scale workloads, big data and cloud-native applications. For more information, visit www.centurylinkcloud.com.

Bikram Gupta, a Senior Product Manager at Intel, stops by to talk about the Intel® Security suite of solutions including PC/mobile phone, security management, firewall and network security. With the move of many network appliances to software defined, security also migrating to new software defined security solutions. Bikram also discusses the rise of intelligent applications that leverage SDN and how those will be secured in the future. For more information, visit: http://networkbuilders.intel.com/.

Bikram Gupta, a Senior Product Manager at Intel, stops by to talk about the Intel® Security suite of solutions including PC/mobile phone, security management, firewall and network security. With the move of many network appliances to software defined, security also migrating to new software defined security solutions. Bikram also discusses the rise of intelligent applications that leverage SDN and how those will be secured in the future. For more information, visit: http://networkbuilders.intel.com/.

Victor Krutul (the Director of Silicon Photonics at Intel) and Stan Swirhun (the Director of Module Engineering for Silicon Photonics at Intel), chat about bringing Intel manufacturing to the process of making optical devices: The first silicon photonics products will hit the market in late 2014. They also discuss the formation and need for the CLR4 Alliance, a specification for defining SiPh link speed and distance in the data center. For more information, visit www.clr4-alliance.org.

Frequent Chip Chat guest Raejeanne Skillern, the GM of cloud service providers at Intel, stops by to talk about making the data center more flexible and agile for delivery of services. While general purpose processors are good for a majority of applications, Intel recently announced a customizable Intel® Xeon® processor to optimize specific workloads. The new Xeon integrates an FPGA with a coherent link, leading to better performance and lower latency. To learn more, visit http://intel.ly/1sC96k9.

Emre Eraltan, a Principal Field Application Engineer with 6WIND, stops by to talk about solving performance challenges for network vendors in telecommunications, enterprise and the cloud infrastructure market. 6WINDGate is an all-in-one packet processing software providing a high performance networking stack on top of different type of processors. He also discusses using the Intel® Data Plane Development kit for faster packet processing on x86 architectures. For more information, visit www.6WIND.com and www.dpdk.org.

Emre Eraltan, a Principal Field Application Engineer with 6WIND, stops by to talk about solving performance challenges for network vendors in telecommunications, enterprise and the cloud infrastructure market. 6WINDGate is an all-in-one packet processing software providing a high performance networking stack on top of different type of processors. He also discusses using the Intel® Data Plane Development kit for faster packet processing on x86 architectures. For more information, visit www.6WIND.com and www.dpdk.org.

Robert McBride, the Senior Product Manager of Emerging Technologies Software Networking at Brocade, chats about the Vyatta 5600 vRouter and using software to deliver automation and control of network services resulting in lower costs and an improved end-user experience. He also discusses the Intel® Network Builders program and working with the Intel® Data Plane Development Kit. For more information, visit www.brocade.com.

Robert McBride, the Senior Product Manager of Emerging Technologies Software Networking at Brocade, chats about the Vyatta 5600 vRouter and using software to deliver automation and control of network services resulting in lower costs and an improved end-user experience. He also discusses the Intel® Network Builders program and working with the Intel® Data Plane Development Kit. For more information, visit www.brocade.com.

Jim Greene, a product marketing engineer focused on server security technologies at Intel, stops by to talk about his book: Intel Trusted Execution Technology for Server Platforms: A Guide to More Secure Datacenters. Jim has agreed to give away autographed copies of the book to the first 5 people that follow @techallyson on Twitter and tweet her for a copy. Jim also discusses how to stay ahead of emerging threats: 1. Increase your ability to detect attacks (be it on the networks or malware) via sensors and analytics? 2. Increase your protections to protect data and harden the platform. 3. Innovate for recovery – how do we manage the mayhem? For more information, visit www.intel.com/txt.