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Gene Kim, author, researcher, speaker, director, and DevOps enthusiast, joins us in this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss what makes a tech company highly successful. He discusses both The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook, which explore how the industry got to where it is now and how the community can contribute value by creating platforms that enable developer productivity. Kim explains that the shared goal of IT organizations is for everyone to become more productive and independently develop, test and deploy to customers quickly. For more information Kim’s book and his DevOps journey go to http://itrevolution.com/ or follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RealGeneKim.

Brandon Philips, CTO of CoreOS, joins us in this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss how to improve data center management via open source projects. Intel and CoreOS are working to deploy and manage OpenStack with Kubernetes. Brandon talks about how CoreOS is leading the industry towards simple, secure and current infrastructure enabled by containers and container management, and its leading operating system, Container Linux. He explains why containers are becoming so popular and the numerous benefits they provide. CoreOS is a leader in the open source community and creator of CoreOS Tectonic. Brandon talks about Tectonic, a secure and complete platform that extends Kubernetes with key enterprise features that ease container orchestration. In this podcast we discuss Tectonic 1.3, but as of this printing, Tectonic 1.5 is available, bringing the most advanced version of Kubernetes to customers. Brandon foresees containers being the default way of consuming compute infrastructure in the future. To l

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Joel Kaufman, Director of Manageability Products Group Technical Marketing at NetApp, discusses the company’s focus on solutions that are tailored to specific problems, rather than promoting a particular product. Joel also chats about the features and benefits of NetApp’s SolidFire platform and ONTAP 9 management software. He explains that Intel and NetApp’s relationship has been extremely fruitful for more than 20 years, with a focus on collaboration to facilitate adoption of open technologies. Moving forward, Joel explains that NetApp will focus on areas that deal with large-scale hybrid clouds and data protection in virtual environments. To learn more go to www.netapp.com or follow Joel on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TheJoelk.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud we are joined by Ady Degany, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Velostrata. Ady discusses how Velostrata is overcoming the challenges of hybrid cloud with workload mobility and Intel funding. He explains that Velostrata’s vision is to provide the platform to mobilize applications in real-time across optimal cloud infrastructure, based on performance, available services, cost and other business priorities. Ady mentions that one trend he sees in the industry is a drive for hybrid cloud adoption. Velostrata recently released Velostrata 2.0, which provides fast, easy and low-risk platform to move applications and their data to the cloud, both for short-term use cases like development and testing, as well as for long-term migration. To find out more go to www.velostrata.com or follow Velostrata on Twitter at https://twitter.com/velostrata.

Michael Letschin, Field Chief Technology Officer at Nexenta Systems, Inc., joins us to discuss storage virtualization. Nexenta is a global leader in open source software-defined storage with more than 6,000 customers and 1,600 petabytes of storage under management. In this interview, Letschin talks about the Intel-based NexentaEdge product and its applications for customers who require that data not only be stored reliably, but be retrieved quickly as well. For more information on Nexenta, please visit https://nexenta.com, check out Nexenta's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/NexentaVideos, and follow Nexenta on Twitter at https://twitter.com/nexenta.

Anton Kolomyeytsev, CEO, Chief Architect, and Co-founder at StarWind, joins us to discuss the past, present, and future of software defined storage (SDS) and hyperconvergence. StarWind is a pioneer in storage virtualization and produces Intel based SDS solutions for small to medium size businesses, remote and branch offices, and larger implementations. In this Chip Chat, Kolomyeytsev discusses StarWind's iSCSI over RDMA demo from VMWorld, offers thoughts on the RDMA over Converged Internet vs. Internet Wide Area RDMA Protocol debate, and forecasts a bright future for NVMe* Over Fabrics. For more information on StarWind's work, please visit www.starwindsoftware.com and follow StarWind on Twitter at twitter.com/starwindsan.

Jesse St. Laurent, VP Product Strategy at SimpliVity Corporation, joins us in this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss SimpliVity’s vision to simplify enterprise IT. Jesse explains that Intel and SimpliVity have had a long standing relationship to ensure that they integrate the latest and greatest technologies. Jesse discuss SimpliVity’s roll out of their all-flash hyperconverged solution that runs on Intel SSDs. The flash program, Jesse explains, is compelling for a big portion of the market, not just the one percent. There are two different ways to consume the all-flash hyperconverged solution: OmniStack Software and OmniCube. He also shares some of the capabilities of the new solution including improved performance to enterprises, higher protection and resilience, as well as superior data efficiency. To find out more go to www.simplivity.com or follow SimpliVity on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HPE_SimpliVity.

Dr. Raj Yavatkar, VMware Fellow, joins us to discuss advances in software defined infrastructure for hybrid clouds. Dr. Yavatkar leads VMware's initiative into hybrid cloud infrastructure and works to ensure that public and private clouds can integrate software defined infrastructure quickly and be managed automatically. In this interview, Dr. Yavatkar outlines VMware's efforts to modernize storage, network, and compute provisioning using virtual machines. Additionally, Dr. Yavatkar describes his vision for a future self-healing, self-managing data center based on technologies like the Snap open telemetry framework. For more information on VMware's hybrid cloud efforts, please read Tim Allen's Intel IT Peer Network post, "Delivering an Evolutionary Path to Hybrid Cloud with Intel and VMware" (http://intel.ly/2cCK2cr), and follow Dr. Yavatkar on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ryavatkar.

Nelson Nahum, CEO and Co-founder of Zadara Storage, joins us to discuss Zadara's Intel-based Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) products. Zadara's on-premises, hybrid, and cloud STaaS solutions eschew up-front capital expenditures in favor of more manageable, ongoing operating expenditures. Through this STaaS model, Zadara offers enterprise-grade performance, security, and control, while enabling customers to pay only for the storage they need. Nahum notes that Zadara allows the on premise storage to be easily moved and replicated to public cloud providers like AWS and Azure while maintaining the performance and security of the on premise environment. To learn more, please visit https://www.zadarastorage.com and follow Zadara Storage on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ZadaraStorage.

Veda Shankar, Director of Emerging Technologies for Quanta Cloud Technologies (QCT), joins us to discuss QCT's work to solve storage bottlenecks endemic to cloud service providers. Many providers are turning to scale-out storage architectures, such as Ceph, to scale efficiently. However, QCT and others have found that separating storage and compute over Ethernet causes IO bottlenecks, especially for demanding workloads like Hadoop and machine learning. QCT is addressing these bottlenecks using Intel NVM Express* storage, a solution exhibited at IDF 2016 and hosted in QCT's state of the art data center lab in San Jose. Shankar additionally described how QCT's QxStack infrastructure appliance enables customers to launch an OpenStack cloud on the first day of deployment using QCT's thoroughly optimized and validated architecture. To learn more, please visit http://www.qct.io/ and follow QCT on Twitter at https://twitter.com/quantaqct.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud Bart Schachter, COO of Iron.io and Travis Reeder, CTO and Co-founder of Iron.io, discuss making job processing faster and easier. Iron.io has been using Docker containers for a number of years with the core purpose of helping companies run workloads. Companies leverage Iron.io to deploy those workloads fast, process files/data faster, iterate quicker, and gain workload control. Iron.io is making the transition to function as a service: the transition from bigger monolithic apps to micro-service, and now breaking down micro-services into smaller chunks of code. They foresee the industry moving to a multi-cloud and hybrid environment, which is why the workloads that they manage have been intelligently routed to multiple clouds. Iron.io will leverage SNAP to understand the landscape of the data center and to better land workers on hardware that provides advantageous instruction sets. To find out more go to www.iron.io or follow Iron.io on Twitter at https://twitter.c

Radhesh Blakrishnan, the General Manager of OpenStack at Red Hat, joins us in this episode of Conversation in the Cloud, recorded at the Intel Developers Forum, to discuss the success of OpenStack deployment and management as well as Intel and Red Hat’s alliance to further NFV technology. Radhesh tells us that Red Hat has a large focus on making sure they have a large certified partner system across compute, storage, and network. Intel and Red Hat have worked together to deliver innovations that are jointly tested and perfected. He shares that Project Phoenix is a solution that Intel and Red Hat have aligned on with the shared vision of innovation, interoperability, and integration services to further NFV technology. Radhesh highlights Red Hat’s drive to deliver innovation across all layers including operating system level, hypervisor level, and OpenStack level. Red Hat has been very successful in delivering proven solutions by enterprise end users in areas of performance scalability, and efficiency. To find

Ron Hermann, Director of Sales Engineering at E8 Storage, joins us to talk about bringing Intel® Rack Scale Design, Generation 2 Flash products into software-defined data centers. Hermann reports that applications such as machine learning, high-speed analytics, and high-performance databases require faster storage than earlier SSD systems. E8 Storage's solutions now combine the high bandwidth and low latency of NVM Express* with the availability, flexibility, and provisioning of centralized storage. Using this architecture, E8 Storage seeks to deliver higher performance at a lower cost than other solutions. To learn more, please visit https://e8storage.com and follow E8 Storage on Twitter at https://twitter.com/e8storage.

Chris Grossmeier, Director of Product Management at CloudPhysics, joins us to discuss CloudPhysics' efforts to improve resource management in the data center. CloudPhysics has constructed one of the world's largest and most comprehensive data lakes, or collections of raw IT data. Grossmeier talks about how CloudPhysics' SaaS solution is harnessing the power of big data to optimize the use of data center resources. Grossmeier further discusses how CloudPhysics' work in the Intel Storage Builders program is helping executives better measure and compare throughput, volume, workloads, and latencies in their storage environments. To learn more, please visit https://www.cloudphysics.com and follow CloudPhysics on Twitter at https://twitter.com/cloudphysics.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Jason Hoffman, VP and Head of Product Area Cloud Infrastructure at Ericsson, joins us to talk about technologies for the hyperscale cloud and the possibility to run your data center as an industrialized factory with an end to end supply chain view. Jason chats about Ericsson’s Datacenter Automation Platform (DAP), which was announced at the recent Intel Developer Forum. DAP answers business intelligence questions like: What is in the data center? What is the cost to deliver a digital object? What is the history of you infrastructure? Jason notes that Ericsson helps modernize network, server, storage, and analytics tools across multiple vendors. The Ericsson Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000, which is supported by Intel® Rack Scale Design, is also discussed. It provides component disaggregation for scaling, upgrades and maintenance, infrastructure monitoring through Ericsson Command Center, and app provisioning via virtual performance optimized data centers (vPODs

Spencer Shepler, Private Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft, joins us to discuss advances in software defined storage (SDS). One of the most exciting technologies in Microsoft's Windows Server 2016 is Storage Spaces Direct, which simplifies the deployment and management of SDS systems. Shepler highlights Storage Spaces Direct's support for new classes of disk devices and ability to spread storage across diverse NVMe* and SATA hardware, enabling end users to write hot, warm, and cold data to the most appropriate devices. Windows Server 2016 which will be available in October 2016. To learn more about Storage Spaces Direct in the meantime, please check out Microsoft's Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview (http://intel.ly/2cyyLZP) and follow Shepler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/shepleratmsft.

Co-Founder and CEO of Raintank, Raj Dutt, joins us in this episode of Conversations in The Cloud to discuss Grafana and Raintank’s collaboration with Intel. Raj points out that Raintank’s core tenant is to democratize metrics and create solutions that allow people to take control of their monitoring. This principle has informed Raintank’s technology advances and key partnerships, allowing them to be considered the go to open-source solution for visualizing cloud telemetry data. Raintank utilizes Intel’s Snap, which is an open source project for telemetry framework that provides success to data on the states and capabilities of underlying infrastructure. Raj talks about the how Snap supports Grafana and recognizes how dynamic infrastructure is, which is unique these days. To learn more go to http://raintank.io and follow Raj on twitter at https://twitter.com/nopzor.

Herb Schneider, VP of engineering at Maxta discusses the challenges and opportunities facing the industry of virtualization and storage. Intel and Maxta have been working together to accelerate the adoption of the Maxta Storage Platform as well as develop, enhance, and optimize storage software for the virtual data center. Herb notes that Intel’s access to a broad base of technologies has helped Maxta develop two of their main solutions: MxSP software only and MaxDeploy Hyper-converged Appliance. These solutions provide customers with flexibility to customize solutions and run on existing servers, as well as removing interoperability and performance guesswork. Herb chats about the challenges facing the industry and Maxta’s plan for the future: a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) as a unified data center platform that delivers converged compute, storage, and networking. To find out more about Maxta and their solutions go to www.maxta.com or follow them on twitter at https://twitter.com/MaxtaInc.

In this episode of Conversations in The Cloud, Sumeet Singh, Founder and CEO of AppFormix, joins us to discuss how AppFormix is optimizing enterprise cloud operations using Intel® Resource Director Technology. Sumeet highlights DevOps as a main end-user of AppFormix technology and their desire to deliver low-latency user experience to them. AppFormix has taken advantage of Intel technology for many reasons; Sumeet points out one reason is to provide micro-level visibility and control of shared resources inside of the processor. The ability to monitor and manage cache and memory bandwidth at the processor level with AppFormix and Intel RDT improves application latency by 70 percent, which is extremely important to DevOps. Sumeet notes that everyone wants the cloud and everyone wants it now – AppFormix plans to deliver this request by bringing great minds and companies together. To find out more go to www.appformix.com/intel or follow Sumeet on Twitter at https://twitter.com/sumappfx.

In this podcast we are joined by Jason Phippen, Head of Global Product and Solutions Marketing at SUSE to discuss software defined storage and how open source has transformed the computing landscape. Jason explains that SUSE is a Linux OS pioneer and successful software vendor with thousands of installations. He talks about some of the new technologies that SUSE is bringing to the industry including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, which provides the most advanced foundation for mission critical workloads and SUSE Enterprise Storage 3.0 based on Ceph Jewel. SUSE’s mission is to provide customers with flexibility when it comes to choosing software and believe storage should be open and non-proprietary. Jason talks about how Intel and SUSE have worked closely to offer reliable, efficient and high-performance solutions for mission-critical applications powered by Intel® Xeon® processors. To learn more go to www.suse.com/storage or follow SUSE on twitter at https://twitter.com/SUSE.