Intel Chip Chat

Mark Lesher, Technology Solutions Director from EMC, chats about distance migration – the ability to move workloads dynamically for cloud bursting. EMC held a demo of this technology during the Intel Developer Forum in September. Mark also talks about the network bottleneck and other technologies that EMC is focused on in the cloud – storage virtualization, big data, and security. For more information, visit www.emc.com

In this archive of a livecast, Riyaz Somani, VP of product development and co-founder of CiRBA, stops by to talk about predictive analytics and capacity planning, which allows users to manage capacity more effectively and not over- or under-provision their infrastructure. Users can implement a variety of policies from overcommit ratios to utilization levels to begin to truly drive automation. For more information, visit www.cirba.com.

From September 2012: In this archive of a livecast, Shishir Pardikar, a senior architect from Citrix, stops by to talk about the company’s views on open and interoperable cloud computing, cloud products/services including XenSource and CloudStack, and the key cloud standards of management and migration. For more information, visit www.citrix.com.

From September 2012: Mike Norwood, VP of business development from Appnomic, joins the program to talk about app performance management, AKA real-time infrastructure and IT operations. Appnomic looks not only at transactional response time but also the underlying infrastructure components like database, disk IO, storage, and Java virtual machines, as well as usage patterns to see where performance degradation lies. For more information visit www.appnomic.com.

From September 2012: In this archive of a live episode , Tobias Kunze from Red Hat stops by to talk about the company’s PaaS cloud solution, OpenShift. It allows developers to port their code onto a platform with only minor configuration needed. PaaS is ideal for customer facing apps that are fairly standard across platforms. For more information, visit https://openshift.redhat.com/app/.

From September 2012: Amber Huffman from Intel, Sumit Puri from LSI, and Steve Sardella from EMC visit Chip Chat for an in-depth discussion of NVM Express. NVMe is a flexible, scalable host controller that builds on PCI Express* (PCIe) Technology to deliver high performance for solid state drives. On the client side PCIe/NVMe SSDs will eventually replace SATA drives and on the enterprise side will be a complementary technology for SAS. Listeners also get a preview of NVMe demonstrations and classes at the upcoming Intel Developer Forum. For more information visit the NVM Express workgroup at: www.nvmexpress.org.

Mark Schoennagel from Autodesk stops by to talk about the company’s Softimage 2013 product and its use in 3D animation. Softimage is one of the pioneers in the industry – it was used to animate the water/alien character in The Abyss and has also been utilized to animate a host of other movies and video games. Multi-core and 64-bit have been game changers for the industry, and new Intel® Xeon® processor based systems allow animators to take advantage of every bit of performance. For more information visit www.autodesk.com.

From August 2012: Diane Bryant, VP and GM of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group, stops by for a wide ranging discussion on everything from how to motivate high school and college students in engineering to what are the most exciting innovations in the data center surround cloud, big data and security.

From August 2012: Charleson Go, a product engineer from Premio, talks with Allyson about the company’s demonstrations at NAB 2012, which help broadcast professionals connect to a richer online experience and advance creative workflow and content creation applications through computing, storage, and cloud technologies. Visit www.premioinc.com for more information.

From July 2012: Simer Singh and David Jenkins stop by to give an update on Intel® Node Manager and to discuss the release of the programmer’s reference kit. The kit will allow programmers to design their own server instrumentation and monitoring solutions from the ground up. Visit https://01.org/nodemanager/ to download the reference kit and www.intel.com/go/nodemanager for more information on Intel Node Manager.