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In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Jon Toor, Chief Marketing Officer of Cloudian joins us to discuss how Cloudian is making enterprise storage systems that are extremely scalable, cloud-ready, and cost-effective. Jon explains that Cloudian uses Intel processor-based servers, one of the most cost-effective compute platforms on the planet, as the underlying hardware architecture and in turn comes in less expensive than traditional storage providers. Jon also talks about the Cloudian HyperStore®, which is an Intel processor-based server platform that serves as a storage device for enterprise data centers. To learn more go to www.cloudian.com, or follow Cloudian on Twitter at https://twitter.com/CloudianStorage.

Vinay Balasubramaniam, Head of Product Experience at Midfin Systems, joins us in this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss Midfin's distributed cloud operating system and hybrid cloud management solution. Midfin set out with the main goal of transforming the way the cloud infrastructure of tomorrow should be built. Vinay chats about eFabric, a software-defined data center technology that runs on Intel hardware and has an easy to manage infrastructure. eFabric is a culmination of all the experiences and learnings from growing massive data centers, and packaging that knowledge into a product for end-users. To learn more go to http://www.midfinsystems.com/ or follow Midfin on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MidfinSystems.

Jacob Cherian, VP of Product Management and Strategy at Reduxio, joins us on Conversations in the Cloud to talk about Reduxio's approach to storage architecture and how they are making data the “center” of that architecture. Reduxio is an enterprise storage vendor that aims to break down the silos that exist in data centers today. Jacob talks about how Reduxio delivers flash storage solutions, based on the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 family, that allows administrators to go back in time and recover data from any point in the past at one second granularity. Jacob shares that for the first time, details about Reduxio’s new NoRestore capability for the Reduxio HX550 enterprise flash storage system that provides cloud integrated built-in disaster recovery capability eliminating the need for traditional data protection solutions. To learn more go to https://www.reduxio.com, or follow Reduxio on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ReduxioSystems.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Boyan Krosnov, Chief of Products and Co-Founder of StorPool, joins us to talk about the storage landscape and the difference between capacity-driven and latency-driven storage systems. StorPool's customers are companies building public and private clouds and their storage systems are designed for and delivering low-latency and high performance. StorPool has been using a wide array of Intel products in its storage systems. To learn more go to https://storpool.com/, or follow StorPool on Twitter at https://twitter.com/StorPool.

Doug Ko, Strategy and Market Development for Nimble Storage, joins Conversations in the Cloud to discuss the Nimble Storage cloud service offerings, as well as how they provide a seamless storage experience for consumers. Nimble Storage was recently acquired by HPE and is focusing its efforts on data analytics and predictive analytics platforms, in addition to growing their overall portfolio and cloud service offerings, like Nimble Cloud Volumes (NCV). Doug talks about how Nimble Storage designs their storage systems from the CPU up, allowing them to scale their technology by scaling with the Intel platform. To learn more go to http://cloud.nimblestorage.com, or follow Nimble Storage on Twitter at https://twitter.com/NimbleStorage.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Yaron Haviv, Founder and CTO at iguazio discusses cloud native serverless processing with continuous analytics. iguazio tackles real-time big data processing by using continuous analytics to ingest, enrich, and analyze data, while simultaneously serving it to/from the same data repository. Yaron explains that they can elastically scale processing, add new applications, and change versions on the fly allowing for rapid development and continuous integration. He talks about the various Intel products that iguazio uses to enhance performance, including the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600. To learn more go to http://www.iguaz.io/, or follow Yaron on Twitter at https://twitter.com/yaronhaviv.

Michael McNerney, VP of Software Solutions and Network Security at Supermicro, joins Conversations in the Cloud to talk about disaggregated computing. Michael discusses Supermicro’s MicroBlade disaggregated architecture, which unlocks the interdependence between the major server subsystems, enabling the independent upgrade of CPU+memory, I/O, storage, and power/cooling. Jake and Michael highlight that MicroBlade’s disaggregated rack scale design optimizes data center refresh cycles and delivers better overall performance. Michael talks about Supermicro’s transition toward a more evergreen model that allows data centers to run at optimal efficiency, while being able to upgrade on independent cycles. To learn more go to www.supermicro.com, or follow Supermicro on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Supermicro_SMCI.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Douglas Fallstrom, VP of Product Management at Primary Data discusses accelerating applications and connecting to the cloud. Douglas explains that Primary Data was founded to address data management challenges; their product called DataSphere, which is coupled with Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2640 v3-based servers, is ideal for optimizing storage environments. He chats about the various use cases of DataSphere and how it is designed to separate the architecturally rigid relationship between applications and storage, to achieve unprecedented improvements in performance, efficiency, and scalability. To learn more go to www.primarydata.com or follow Primary Data on Twitter at twitter.com/primary_data.

Bernie Wu, Chief Business Development Officer at Levyx, joins us on this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss how Levyx’s software and Intel® Optane™ technology can help usher in this new age of real-time persistent computing. Levyx aims to enable big data operations/analytics to run faster, simpler, and cheaper, using persistent computing. Bernie talks about the Levyx software portfolio including Helium, Xenon, and Levyx-Spark Connector. He also highlights that Levyx's Helium Key Value Store, combined with a pair of Intel® Optane™ drives, achieved over 20 Million operations/sec with 99% latencies of under 21 microseconds. To learn more go to www.levyx.com or follow Levyx on Twitter at https://twitter.com/levyxinc.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Bruce Templeton, Co-founder and CEO of NephoScale, joins us to discuss OpenStack, multi-tenant clouds, and the release of NephOS v3.0, a cloud operating system based upon the OpenStack Liberty release. Bruce explains why making OpenStack-based multi-tenant clouds more productized and repeatable for deployment, scaling, and upgrading is so important to market success. NephoScale achieves extremely high levels of performance by finely tuning their NephOS cloud software stack to work with the latest Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 family. To learn more go to www.nephoscale.com or follow NephoScale on Twitter at https://twitter.com/nephoscale.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, George Miranda, Product Marketing Director at Chef joins us to discuss infrastructure automation and their new product, Habitat. Chef is one of the leaders in Cloud Native service infrastructure and Habitat is a product of that effort, providing a consistent way to build and run applications in a Cloud Native manner. Intel and Chef are working to move Open Source forward in the most effective way possible and open up a conversation about solving problems together. To find out more go to www.chef.io or follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/chef.

David Power, CTO and Co-founder of vScaler, joins us in this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss the challenges facing OpenStack for scientific computing, and how vScaler leverages Intel technologies to accelerate the design and deployment of world-class cloud solutions. Long term, David sees vScaler becoming a centralized research capability for Universities and organizations doing modeling, profiling, and simulations. Their finely tuned software enables users to deploy HPC clusters of any scale, either on premise, in the cloud, or across both - in a hybrid model. To learn more go to www.vscaler.com or follow vScaler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/vscaler.

Ali Hodroj, VP of Products and Strategy at GigaSpaces, joins this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss GigaSpaces’ In-Memory Computing Platform. GigaSpaces and Intel have been working together to accelerate global awareness and adoption of in-memory computing analytics architectures and data scalability solutions. Ali discusses how Intel’s funding of GigaSpaces will drive continued product innovation, and expand its sales organization worldwide in the area of hybrid transactions/analytics processing, in-memory data grids, and real-time analytics. To learn more go to http://www.gigaspaces.com or follow Ali on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ahodroj.

Andy Mills, CEO and Co-Founder of Enmotus, joins us to discuss “Dynamic Flash Provisioning.” Enmotus is a fast-growing software company that has developed a new set of tools that analyze user’s data and identify how much flash they require for optimal performance. By utilizing these tools, customers know when and how much flash to buy. Andy explains that Enmotus simplifies flash integration with Intel® Solid State Drive Technology, including Intel® Optane™ technology.  To learn more go to www.enmotus.com or follow Andy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tekinerd.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Steve Garrison, VP of Marketing at ZeroStack joins us to discuss ZeroStack's self-driving private cloud and its integration with a broad ecosystem of market leading software and hardware vendors, including Intel. Steve talks about how ZeroStack is teaming up with Nimble Storage to create a fully integrated private cloud solution that radically simplifies operations and delivers predictable performance. He highlights that ZeroStack’s goal is to make cloud technology accessible for everyone. To learn more go to www.zerostack.com or follow ZeroStack on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ZeroStackInc.

Narendar Shankar, President of OnApp Americas, joins this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss a wide array of topics from OnApp and Intel’s private cloud-in-a-box, to artificial intelligence in the cloud infrastructure domain. Intel and OnApp deliver private cloud-in-a-box, which is put together with OnApp software and Intel hardware and giving Intel channel partners and other businesses a very reliable cloud solution. Narendar discusses the resurrection of the private cloud and the value of running workloads in-house, on-premises. To learn more go to http://www.onapp.com or http://www.onapp.com/intel.

Randy Arseneau, Chief Marketing Officer at INFINIDAT and Erik Eyberg, Senior Director of INFINIDAT, join us in this episode of Conversations in the Cloud. Erik talks about INFINIDAT’s delivery model, which entails meeting client requirements as well as providing flexibility and agility in their storage solutions. INFINIDAT aims to reduce risk, increase performance, and reduce TCO for PB-scale cloud data solutions. The InfiniBox family of storage systems, which run on Intel processors, address these challenges and help clients get value out of their data. To learn more go to www.infinidat.com or follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/INFINIDAT.

Ishai Tal, Head of Platform and Cloud Architecture at Carestream Health, joins us in this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss next generation medical imaging data and analytics over the cloud, using NVMe technologies. Intel® Solid State Drive Data Center Family for NVM Express* is utilized to power the Carestream Vue Clinical Collaboration Platform which can be deployed onsite or via cloud services. Ishai talks about the benefits of using Intel technology for medical imaging, including improved productivity, reduced operations costs, better data growth management, and the ability to prepare for a new era of medical imaging data analytics. To find out more go to storagebuilders.intel.com/membership/carestream, or follow Carestream at carestream.com/collaboration and Twitter at twitter.com/Carestream.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Marc Keating, Director of Technology and Alliance Strategy at ClearSky, joins us to talk about ClearSky’s latest development in on-demand primary storage. The ClearSky global storage network provides customers with access to data on-demand and in a hybrid-cloud environment simplifying the entire enterprise data lifecycle as a fully managed service. Marc discusses how ClearSky leverages Intel security and performance features in almost everything they do, which provides them with the speed they need to develop their services faster and more efficiently. To learn more about ClearSky’s global storage network and storage elasticity go to www.clearskydata.com, or follow ClearSky on Twitter at twitter.com/ClearSkyData.

Don Grabski, Director of Product Management for Seagate, joins us in this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss how Seagate technology incorporates Intel® Enterprise Edition for Lustre* software, into its market-leading ClusterStor® storage architecture for high-performance computing (HPC). Lustre software is at the heart of most HPC storage systems, and powers 40 percent of the world’s fastest supercomputers. In this interview, Don highlights how Seagate’s HDDs, SSDs, and data storage systems are purpose-built for enterprise and data center performance, scalability, reliability, and security. To learn more go to www.seagate.com or follow Seagate on Twitter at twitter.com/seagate.