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Randy Tucker, Lumen Edgevangelist, joins host Jake Smith to talk about edge computing, the history of telecommunications pioneering in Colorado, and the advancements in network infrastructure. Randy explains why milliseconds count when it comes to the edge and how working closely with Intel has improved performance across the globe. The two also talk about how the company has changed over the years with acquisitions, going from Qwest Communications to CenturyLink to Lumen Technologies today. Follow Lumen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lumentechco Follow Jake on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Henry Tam, Senior Product Manager at F5, joins host Jake Smith to talk about the growing transition to virtualized environments, F5’s history in traffic management, the future of 5G and edge computing, and why the company is leveraging new solutions to offload DDoS mitigation from a virtual firewall to a high-performance FPGA developed with Intel. Follow F5 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/F5 Follow Jake on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Alok Mishra, founder of Wesense, joins host Jake Smith to talk about how the company, in partnership with Wipro, developed Clearhealth—a safety compliance product for COVID-19 in India that combines touch-free attendance, temperature checks, sanitization compliance, and mask protection compliance for offices and retail locations. The two talk about the importance of technology helping solve emerging problems and how Wesense improved inference time using Intel optimized TensorFlow, Intel Distribution of OpenVINO, and Intel Distribution for Python. Follow Wesense on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wesenseai Follow Jake on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Michael Hall, director of technology and ecosystem enablement at Intel, joins host Jake Smith to talk how Intel works with partners to ensure the market is properly prepared for technology coming out three to five years into the future. The two talk about how the PCIe standard is evolving for lower-latency and all the compatibly and testing work that goes into next generation chips. Michael also talks about what changes he’s excited about in the industry. Follow Jake on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Richard Gendal Brown, Chief Technology Officer at R3, joins host Jake Smith to talk about R3’s Corda platform and how the company is leveraging Intel SGX to allow businesses to verify how their confidential data is being used by their business partners. Richard and Jake discuss fraud detection, private analytics, and why blockchain technology provides new paradigms for global markets. To learn more about confidential computing, read Richard’s Forbes article about the subject: https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardgendalbrown/2020/06/29/the-curious-world-of-confidential-computing-sharing-without-sharing/ Follow Richard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gendal Follow Jake on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Jeff Denworth, VP of Products and co-founder at VAST Data, joins host Jake Smith to talk about the company becoming a new partner in the Intel Select Solutions program. Jeff and Jake discuss the how storage has evolved, why VAST Data has incorporated Intel Optane Memory, and how a range of companies are using the technology. For more information: http://intel.com/selectsolutions Follow Jeff on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffdenworth Follow Jake on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Lee Caswell, VP of Product Marketing in the Cloud Platform Business Unit at VMware, joins host Jake Smith to talk about the company’s long-standing partnership with Intel as a founding member of the Intel Select Solutions program ecosystem and its leadership in the hyperconverged space. Lee and Jake discuss the history of hardware and software evolution, the advancements in flash storage, and how all of these factors came together for the two companies to help support remote workers and distance learning by recently introducing the Intel Select Solutions for Horizon VDI on vSAN. For more information: http://intel.com/selectsolutions Follow Lee Caswell on Twitter: https://twitter.com/leecaswell Follow Jake Smith on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Guest Michael Shaulov, CEO and co-founder of Fireblocks, talks with host Intel’s Jake Smith about how the company is leveraging Intel SGX “chip-level isolation technology” and multiparty computation (MPC) to protect the transfer of $16B in crypto assets per month for the largest financial institutions. Michael talks about why Fireblocks has built out their network infrastructure with Intel SGX in order to deliver operational efficiency with enterprise-grade security and goes into detail about how the technology works across various customer examples. For more information about Fireblocks, visit: https://www.fireblocks.com For more about Intel SGX, visit: https://www.intel.com/sgx

David Williams, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at netElastic Systems, talks with host Jake Smith about being an emerging player in network virtualization. The company solves some pressing network challenges by helping carriers move to a virtualize network infrastructure, focusing on high performance data plane routing in a software environment though its virtual broadband network gateway. With over forty engineers decided to this issue, the company has been successful very early on in the market. The two talk more about why agile network infrastructure is so important today, given the dramatic increase in network traffic due to videoconferencing and remote work, and look to what the industry might become in the future. For more information about netElastic Systems, visit: https://netelastic.com/

Angela Harvey, Senior Director for Ecosystem Marketing at SAP, and Vishal Sanghvi, Director of Global Marketing at Intel, talk with host Jake Smith about the long-standing partnership between the two companies in the digital transformation space. The two guests discuss some of the top challenges facing customers today, including pandemic management, business continuity, and sustainability. Angela and Vishal talk more in-depth about the security features and optimizations of SAP HANA on Intel architecture, and some of the customers the two businesses have helped, like Mercy, Siemens, and New South Wales Rural Fire Service. For more information about how Intel and SAP are working together, visit intel.com/sap.

Today’s challenging work environment has placed a higher demand on commercially proven solutions. In this episode, Patti Shaffner Jordan, Sr. Director of Solutions Marketing at Intel, talks with host Jake Smith about Intel Select Solutions, pre-configured, pre-verified, technology recipes developed in tandem with software vendors and equipment manufacturers. Recently, Intel and partners updated four current solutions with new technology features and introduced three new solutions to the market, including Intel Select Solutions for VMware Horizon VDI on vSAN. Building on a long-standing partnership, Intel and VMware we were able to develop and launch the new VDI solution in less than two months in order to respond to the increased demand on the data center from remote work. To learn more about the latest Intel Select Solutions, read Patti’s blog with further details: https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/select-solutions-innovation/

Shekhar Mishra, Director of Product Marketing for Software Defined Data Center at Lenovo, joins us to discuss trends in software-defined storage. Shekhar supports Intel® Select Solutions because pre-validation gives customers confidence that they are using the right recipe for their business needs - especially for customers adopting new technologies. Combining Intel’s validation with Lenovo’s testing, as well as Microsoft’s certification, reduces risk and creates configurations that are optimized for high-priority workloads. Lenovo’s latest Azure Stack HCI solution is a result of collaboration between all three companies and is designed to simplify deployment by taking the guesswork out of system configuration. For more information about the solutions that Lenovo offers, go to: www.lenovo.com. For more information about Intel Select Solutions go to: www.intel.com/selectsolutions

This week we are joined by Carl Li, Managing Director of China Enterprise & Government, Data Center Group at Intel. On this episode, Carl discusses the Intel Select Solutions PRC portfolio, and how Intel was able to adapt to geo-specific customer needs. These pre-configured solutions will start from China, and scale into the global market. The cloud and analytics solutions save time to market and reduce cost, helping to solve problems more efficiency. In the future, Carl expects to see even faster technology adoption and views Intel Select Solutions as a cornerstone in the digital transformation businesses. Learn about Intel Select Solutions and other performance optimized configurations at intel.com/selectsolutions.

This week we are joined by Bill Giard, Chief Technology Officer, Digital Transformation & Scale Solutions, Data Platforms Group, at Intel. On this episode, Bill discusses Intel Select Solutions for hybrid cloud and security. He champions Intel Select Solutions because the solutions are easy to deploy, reduce engineering complexity and help enterprises move faster. With host Jake Smith, he dives into hybrid cloud infrastructure, apps and IT transformation, workload placement, and the challenges businesses face to modernize and grow quickly. Learn about Intel Select Solutions and other performance optimized configurations at intel.com/selectsolutions.

Vangel Bojaxhi, Global AI & HPC Director at Inspur, joins Conversations in the Cloud to discuss AI Inferencing applications and Inspur’s new solution. Vangel describes the collaboration between Intel and Inspur, delivering optimized AI solutions for customers, and Inspur’s open source projects for deep learning inference. As an Intel Select Solution, Inspur’s AI Inferencing is a fully optimized, tested, and ready-to-go configuration. The solution reduces the deployment time and cost for end-users while ensuring scalability. Explore Inspur’s AI Inferencing and other solutions here: https://www.inspursystems.com/. Discover Open Source Deep Learning Inference Engine Based on FPGA at https://github.com/TF2-Engine/TF2. Learn about Intel Select Solutions and other performance optimized configurations at intel.com/selectsolutions.

Rick Cnossen, Senior Director of Global AI Sector Solutions at Intel, joins us on this week’s Conversations in the Cloud to discuss the latest trends in the AI and Analytics market, and how Intel solutions streamline implementation. Rick describes the vast applications of analytics and AI in the modern age. Companies want to operationalize analytics and AI but it's complicated, especially when integrating with legacy data. He discusses how Intel Select Solutions help companies on efficient implementation and deployment with specific workload solutions. Explore Intel Select Solutions for AI, Analytics and other performance optimized configurations at intel.com/selectsolutions.

On this week’s Conversations in the Cloud, we are joined by Sim Upadhyayula, Senior Director of Solutions Enablement at Supermicro. Sim discusses the vSAN market, and Supermicro’s latest Intel® Select Solutions for VMware vSAN. Their new solution is a culmination of and collaboration between Supermicro, Intel, and VMware. He is excited by the efficiency and performance of Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory, describing how it enables customers to do more with less. Sim also speaks to Supermicro’s Green Computing mission to reduce environmental cost and impact of data centers. Learn more about by visiting supermicro.com. Explore Intel Select Solutions and other performance optimized configurations at intel.com/selectsolutions.

Mileidy Giraldo, Ph.D., Global Lead, Genomics R&D at Lenovo HPC & AI, joins Conversations in the Cloud to discuss the future of genomics-based precision medicine and Lenovo’s new Genomics Analytics solution. Genomics analytics are increasingly the first step for life sciences studies, but long execution times of complex workflows limit their large scale implementation. Mileidy discusses how Lenovo and Intel’s work is helping researchers deliver faster time to scientific insights and flexibility to scale. Lenovo’s Genomics Optimization and Scalability Tool (GOAST) is built on the foundation of Intel Select Solutions for Genomics Analytics and expands its features to enable precision medicine at the population scale. The computing and storage capacities of the solution help researchers accelerate genomics at the population level – which is having a huge impact on timely deployment of translational and precision medicine initiatives worldwide. Learn more about GOAST at https://en.resources.lenovo.com/intel-sele

James Myers, Director of Data Center Storage Solutions Architecture at Intel, joins us on this week’s Conversations in the Cloud to discuss Intel® Optane™ SSD and Intel Select Solutions. James takes a deep dive into the Intel Optane technology and how it revolutionizes performance for demanding storage workloads. He discusses the importance of balanced architecture and bottle neck prevention for resilient enterprise systems. Many Intel Select Solutions leverage Optane SSD to keep workloads responsive with low latency and fast caching. James is passionate about Select Solutions because the solution benchmarks are designed to deliver proven, real-world value. Select’s validation process includes testing hardware like Optane so it’s optimized for data centers out-of-the-box. Explore Intel Select Solutions and other performance optimized configurations at intel.com/selectsolutions. Learn more about Intel Optane Technology at http://intel.com/optane.

Tim Henning, Director of Architecture and Engineering at SHI, joins us on this week’s Conversations in the Cloud to discuss new verified Lenovo configurations for Intel® Select Solutions from SHI. SHI is committed to helping customers modernize their data centers and prepare for future data growth. Tim discusses the new multi-tenant capabilities of the SQL version 2 environment, where multiple databases can run on the same server. He notes that using 2nd Gen Intel Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel Optane™ DC Persistent Memory requires less hardware, which is more efficient for customers. Tim values Intel Select Solutions because the pre-validated designs provide an easy to follow “cook book” for consistent and high-performing configurations. To learn more about SHI’s solutions go to https://www.shi.com/intelselectsolutions. Explore Intel Select Solutions for SQL and other performance optimized configurations at intel.com/selectsolutions.