Intel Chip Chat

Chuck Brown, Datacenter SSD Product Line Manager from Intel, stops by to talk about the various segments for Intel solid-state drives including consumer, professional, and data center. He also discusses various use cases for the data center line of products including database, Web servers, mail, virtualization, big data, and HPC, and introduces the new Intel® Solid-State Drive DC S3500 Series. For more information, visit the Intel Website and search for DC S3500.

Chuck Brown, Datacenter SSD Product Line Manager from Intel, stops by to talk about the various segments for Intel solid-state drives including consumer, professional, and data center. He also discusses various use cases for the data center line of products including database, Web servers, mail, virtualization, big data, and HPC, and introduces the new Intel® Solid-State Drive DC S3500 Series. For more information, visit the Intel Website and search for DC S3500.

Vanessa Alvarez , director of product marketing at Gridstore, chats about commercializing big data for the enterprise (via Hadoop and Cloudera) and the next wave of storage which moves away from traditional SAN and scale-out NAS and towards a grid-like solution that is more efficient and cost-effective. For more information, visit www.gridstore.com.

Vanessa Alvarez , director of product marketing at Gridstore, chats about commercializing big data for the enterprise (via Hadoop and Cloudera) and the next wave of storage which moves away from traditional SAN and scale-out NAS and towards a grid-like solution that is more efficient and cost-effective. For more information, visit www.gridstore.com.

Sara Volz, winner of the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, stops by for our 250th episode to talk about her research into using algae as an alternative to fossil fuels. Algae produces oil that can be converted into a renewable fuel, so Sara used guided evolution to establish populations of algae cells with high oil content. She also discusses her home lab, what it felt like to win the award, and her future plans. Congratulations to Sara!

Sara Volz, winner of the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, stops by for our 250th episode to talk about her research into using algae as an alternative to fossil fuels. Algae produces oil that can be converted into a renewable fuel, so Sara used guided evolution to establish populations of algae cells with high oil content. She also discusses her home lab, what it felt like to win the award, and her future plans. Congratulations to Sara!

Bill Roth, VP of Marketing for Nexenta, stops by to talk about an emerging buzzword – software defined storage, which lets the software layer (rather than hardware) define a storage infrastructure. It’s the last piece of a flexible, software defined data center that also includes compute virtualization and software defined networks. He also discusses working with Intel on a reference architecture for Korea Telecom, who run the largest cloud in Asia. For more information, visit www.intelcloudbuilders.com and www.nexenta.com

Bill Roth, VP of Marketing for Nexenta, stops by to talk about an emerging buzzword – software defined storage, which lets the software layer (rather than hardware) define a storage infrastructure. It’s the last piece of a flexible, software defined data center that also includes compute virtualization and software defined networks. He also discusses working with Intel on a reference architecture for Korea Telecom, who run the largest cloud in Asia. For more information, visit www.intelcloudbuilders.com and www.nexenta.com

Victor Krutul, director of marketing for silicon photonics operations for Intel, stops by to talk about 10 years’ worth of work in optical communications. Silicon photonics (rather than copper) allows for improved system-to-system interconnects in the data center at speeds of 100 Gbps or more, and, because they’re made with silicon, a module will cost less and have greater reliability. Intel recently announced the development phase for the program, which could lead to a disaggregated data center (a rack of CPUs, a rack of disk drives, etc.) and an easier upgrade path. For more information, visit www.intel.com and search for silicon photonics.

Victor Krutul, director of marketing for silicon photonics operations for Intel, stops by to talk about 10 years’ worth of work in optical communications. Silicon photonics (rather than copper) allows for improved system-to-system interconnects in the data center at speeds of 100 Gbps or more, and, because they’re made with silicon, a module will cost less and have greater reliability. Intel recently announced the development phase for the program, which could lead to a disaggregated data center (a rack of CPUs, a rack of disk drives, etc.) and an easier upgrade path. For more information, visit www.intel.com and search for silicon photonics.