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On this week’s Conversations in the Cloud, Wilson Guo, Senior Technology Director at Inspur, joins us to discuss the company’s data center and cloud computing solutions. Inspur is one of the largest providers in China, providing flexible, scalable data center solutions for a broad variety of applications. Inspur is offering their server products with the 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and in fact, already has a customer in the education space with a HPC implementation based on the new processor. Inspur delivers accelerator solutions to the customer for a broad range of AI applications. The company strategically collaborates with software vendors that work on the AI algorithms, as well as partners like Intel, to develop innovative AI solutions. They also offer customizations and optimizations on open source frameworks as well as performance monitoring tools and monitoring utilities for AI customers. Looking to the future, Inspur is seeing more customers require hybrid cloud solutions. Wilson also see

Jim Sangster, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Supermicro, joins Intel’s Conversations in the Cloud to talk about their broad product line of servers and storage platforms and how their offering of Intel Select Solutions simplifies the process of implementing and deploying solutions that are workload optimized for their customers. Supermicro always strives to be first to market with new technologies. Jim talks about how Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory will be a game changer--how it provides significantly more memory capabilities, it’s persistent and less expensive than DRAM. Jim covers two new Intel Select Solutions they will be offering soon: VMware vSAN and SAP HANA—both built on Intel 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. He also touches on their AI product line—what’s available and the infinite possibilities using AI. For more information about Supermicro, their extensive product line and the Intel Select Solutions they offer, go to: www.supermicro.com To learn more about Intel S

Alison Welch, Director of Ecosystem and Channels at SAP joins Conversations in the Cloud this week to discuss SAP HANA as well as the deep technology collaboration between Intel and SAP. In a recent IDC report, it was noted that right now there are 33 zettabytes of data in the world – and by 2025 the number will increase to 175 zettabytes. This presents significant challenges for customers, from data storage to insights extracted from the data. SAP and Intel have a decades-long collaboration to enhance enterprise technology and address challenges like this explosion of data. The companies work closely within labs and research facilities to collaborate on new technologies, like the 2nd gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor and Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory. This provides not only close alignment but also facilitates early adopter programs and helps support mission critical applications. And, it enables solutions like the new Intel Select Solution for SAP HANA, a recipe for an optimized deployment of SAP

Discover the benefits of modernizing your IT Infrastructure with Microsoft Windows Server 2019 and Intel® Select Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI* in this latest Conversations in the Cloud with Todd Christ, Enterprise Solutions Architect in Intel’s Data Center Group. Todd talks about how virtualization gives customers more flexibility and elasticity in their data center, and allows their systems to be more fluid and provide solid uptime. He also discusses the impact that moving to Microsoft Windows Server 2019 will make on performance, security, and memory. Todd provides an overview of the updated Intel Select Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI (formerly known as Microsoft Windows Server Software Defined), which combine Intel-based hardware with software from Microsoft to form the basis for simplified, low-cost, hyperconverged infrastructure. Tailored to the different compute, memory, and storage needs at the edge and in the data center, he discusses the benefits of adding 2nd Generation Intel®

Join Conversations in the Cloud for this special edition with VMware’s Pratap Subrahmanyam, a Fellow at VMware since 2013, and Jake Smith, Intel’s Director of Data Center Technologies Marketing to hear how VMware and Intel have worked together since 2006 to innovate private and hybrid cloud solutions. Pratap joined VMware in 2000 as a member of the technical staff (MTS)and has been a key player in their virtual machine (VM) monitor group, contributing to the design of MMU virtualization, paravirtual interfaces design principles, and, more recently, symmetric multiprocessor fault tolerance for virtual machines. In this podcast, Pratap discusses the emergence of virtualization technology, the importance of VM density, VMware’s commitment to continually updating vSphere with the latest Intel Architecture innovations, and how VMware continues to meet the challenges of managing the Edge. Always building on their core value: providing enterprises with the capability to run a large number of virtual machines on a

The amount of data that enterprises need to manage is increasing massively every year and it needs to be moved, stored and managed in more effective ways. John Majeski, General Manager of Software Solutions at Lenovo, joins Intel’s Conversations in the Cloud to talk about how Lenovo’s broad portfolio of Intel Select Solutions meets the everyday challenges of managing IT infrastructure and how their solutions are built to align with key workloads--analytics, hybrid cloud, network transformation, HPC and AI. John discusses the value of Lenovo’s select solutions—that they are fast and easy to deploy, workload optimized, and deliver an out of the box solution that is ready to go, ready to scale and provides quick time to live. In addition, these solutions use the ThinkSystem architecture, which is the foundation of Lenovo’s innovative server, storage and networking platforms. John also talks about the new solutions they are building now that will take advantage of Intel’s 2nd generation Xeon Scalable processor

On this week’s episode of Conversations in the Cloud, we talk to Prashant Shah, Director of Engineering for Health and Life Sciences at Intel. Prashant provides a grounding in what inferencing, which is when a model that’s been built and trained is then productized and put into the real world, to be applied to use cases with new data. Intel® Select Solutions for AI Inferencing is meant for companies looking to productize AI models for a range of use cases. Ultimately customers want a robust solution that is also cost effective, which is where the Intel Select Solutions for AI Inferencing comes in, providing a high performance inferencing solution on general purpose hardware. With the second generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor, there are new features like Intel® Deep Learning Boost, which helps accelerate deep learning applications and allows companies to deploy the solution for real-time use cases. Prashant notes a customer that is working with medical imaging workloads was able to achieve 5.5X faste

Lisa Davis, Intel’s Vice President of Data Center Group and General Manager of Digital Transformation & Scale Solutions, E&G, joins Conversations in the Cloud to introduce the new Intel Select Solution for Hardened Security with Lockheed Martin. Cybersecurity is one of the top challenges for CIOs and CSOs today. Lisa talks about how this innovative solution provides a new level of hardware-based security for the on premise/private cloud environment and helps protect a company’s most mission critical workloads. This integrated hardened, full-stack security solution, that starts at the root of trust, provides boot-through-runtime security and unmatched quality of service in a typical virtualized environment. Built using the latest Intel technologies in collaboration with Lockheed Martin’s expertise in cybersecurity, Lisa talks about how this solution is designed to help protect the most sensitive applications and data, from the edge and in the data center. In addition, she discusses how the solution is benchm

Patti Shaffner Jordan, Director of Intel's Data Center Solutions Marketing group, joins Conversations in the Cloud to talk about Intel® Select Solutions, a portfolio of pre-verified solutions, built in partnership with Intel’s ecosystem, that are optimized for data center workloads across compute, storage, and network. In addition, these workload-optimized solutions take the guesswork out of evaluation, are fast and easy to deploy, and are benchmarked for specific workloads to provide optimal performance. Patti talks about the breadth of the program—over 20 reference designs available through more than 30 partners—and the range of enterprise and network workloads that these solutions address. Plus, when Intel incorporates the latest Intel technologies, including the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Optane DC persistent memory, these solutions will offer even higher performance, improved price performance, and enhanced security capabilities. Patti adds that Intel continues to achieve its g

On this week’s Conversations in the Cloud, we welcome Matt Halcomb, Lead Architect for WWT’s Advanced Technology Center (ATC). Matt provides an overview of WWT’s ATC, a collaborative ecosystem of virtual labs that helps their customers validate and deploy innovative technology products and integrated architectural solutions. Matt talks about their new Intel® Select Solution: VMware vSAN 6.7, a hyper-converged solution that offers dramatically enhanced performance and can reduce time to market. Matt is excited about incorporating the latest Intel technologies, including Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory and 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors into the ATC. For more information about the work of WWT and the ATC, visit www.wwt.com.

On this week’s Conversations in the Cloud, we welcome Glenn Rosenberg, Director of Cloud & Managed Services from BIOS IT, an experienced global HPC consultancy and solution provider located in the UK. BIOS IT provides building block solutions customized for the specific business needs of their customers that are affordable, balanced, and performance optimized. In this episode, Glenn talks about the new BIOS IT Intel® Select Solution for Simulation and Modeling, a cost effective solution that is focused on maximizing performance while providing rapid results. Built on Intel’s Xeon 6148 Processors, this solution can deliver the maximum amount of throughput based on customer’s business needs, using all of the compute capabilities. Glenn also elaborates on the future of Simulation and AI, and how it will help businesses monetize their work, make better decisions in their designs, and look at more computational intense problems that will lead to greater value. To learn more about BIOS IT and the solutions they o

On this week’s episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Ron Kunkel, data center group solutions marketing manager at Lenovo, joins us to talk about Lenovo’s new Intel Select Solution for Microsoft SQL Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). Ron provides an overview of Lenovo’s broad data center portfolio that provides server, storage, and networking solutions for workloads ranging from AI and analytics to DevOps and cloud. Analytics is an area where Lenovo sees continued investment and Lenovo is working with Intel on two database solutions: Microsoft SQL OLTP and Microsoft SQL EDW. Lenovo is providing the first Microsoft SQL EDW solution to utilize Windows Server 2019 and first available Select Solution for Microsoft SQL EDW. Lenovo has more than 100 benchmarks on the Intel Xeon Scalable platform and has eight Intel Select Solutions to offer. Ron discusses how seriously the company takes performance, reliability, and customer satisfaction, as evidenced by Lenovo’s leadership in multiple industry surveys and assessment

Description: Join Jesse Schrater, Director of Data Center Security Marketing at Intel, for this informative episode on the new blockchain Select Solution from Intel. Jesse talks about the impact that blockchain will have in the enterprise computing space because of the new business models it makes possible. He also talks about the Intel Select Solution for Blockchain: Hyperledger Fabric, a pre-verified solution that is performance optimized, easy to deploy and eliminates the guesswork and barriers to adoption. To learn more about what this Intel solution can do for your business, check out: http://intel.com/blockchain or www.intel.com/selectsolutions.

Learn what Fujitsu, Intel, and Microsoft are doing together to drive data center innovation in this Chip Chat Conversations in the Cloud episode with Marcel Schuster, Senior Product Marketing Manager for PRIMERGY Server & Product Related Services at Fujitsu. Marcel talks about Fujitsu’s PRIMERGY Server line-up and how they are workload optimized at the core of all digital transformation. He also discusses the benefits of Fujitsu’s deep collaboration with Intel and the impact Microsoft Windows Server 2019 will have on IT Infrastructure. To learn more, go to: http://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/servers/primergy/ https://blog.global.fujitsu.com/digital-transformation-the-top-5-factors-for-smes-to-consider/

Dr Yih Leong Sun, Enterprise Solution Architect at Intel, joins us to discuss the benefits of the Intel Select Solution for Huawei FusionStorage, a pre-configured hardware and software storage solution that helps enterprise customers scale their storage environment and easily manage their increasingly demanding workloads. He also talks about how this solution, which is validated and tested using rigorous benchmarking and optimized for performance, eliminates the guesswork so customers are able to deploy their system quickly and easily. For more information, visit https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/solutions/select-solutions/storage/huawei-fusion-storage.htm

On this week’s Conversations in the Cloud, we welcome Radhika Rangarajan, Engineering Director for Data Analytics and AI Ecosystem at Intel. Radhika offers an overview of BigDL, a distributed deep learning library for Apache Spark that enables efficient, scalable, and optimized deep learning development. People don’t always know what ingredients to utilize to build their AI workloads. The new Intel Select Solution for BigDL on Apache Spark provides a verified configuration of hardware and software that enables users to more quickly build, test, and deploy solutions. Radhika also discusses the need for interoperability. The AI landscape has a broad array of different tools and libraries that ultimate need to coexist. Data scientists want their preferred libraries to scale on a big data stack, which doesn’t always work. Analytics Zoo helps scientists and engineers connect their libraries with an underlying Apache Spark ecosystem to help build deep learning models and workloads. Radhika also highlights her role

Jeff Woolsey, Principal Program Manager of Windows Server and Hybrid Cloud at Microsoft, joins Conversations in the Cloud to discuss the importance of IT modernization and how Microsoft Windows Server 2019 will impact performance, security, and scalability. He also talks about Microsoft’s partnership with Intel to create Intel Select Solutions for Windows Server Software Defined Storage and how its unique benefits meet the ongoing demands of the hybrid cloud. To learn more visit www.intel.com/Cloud or www.microsoft.com/azure.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Noam Shendar, VP and GM of the Hyperscale Cloud business at Zadara, joins us to discuss cloud storage. Noam talks about how cloud customers want affordable and flexible enterprise-class storage in the cloud and Zadara delivers that, at scale. Zadara brings these solutions to life, by utilizing Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel® Optane™ technology. Noam also chats about where the industry is moving in the future and why things like delivering capabilities-as-a-service and data management are so important and will add value. To learn more about Zadara, visit www.zadara.com.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Anne Kim, CTO of Secure AI Labs (SAIL), formerly known as GeneTank, joins us to discuss what SAIL is doing to allow companies and hospitals to share valuable or sensitive data while maintaining data ownership and privacy. Anne talks about the massive amount of sensitive data that needs to be secured and how SAIL uses federated machine learning Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) to maintain privacy. SAIL is focused on building the most securely accessible network of data silos to improve the accuracy and speed of artificial intelligence. Instead of creating new silos/lakes by moving data, SAIL's platform delivers algorithms to existing data networks to maintain data ownership and privacy. SAIL's customers are training algorithms on encrypted health records and encrypted drug libraries, ensuring data ownership and privacy without compromising the computational speed and accuracy necessary for medical research. To learn more about SAIL, visit http://sec

In this week’s episode of Conversations in the Cloud, we welcome Cindy Goodell, Senior Manager for Solutions Marketing at NetApp. Cindy discusses the challenges that NetApp is hearing from customers about their journey to the cloud, noting that no two companies are in the same place with their digital transformation. Data is a critical component and companies are beginning to understand the need to balance the placement of their data. NetApp is leveraging partnerships with hyperscalers to leverage underlying storage needs in the public cloud, while also using NetApp Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) in the private cloud. NetApp HCI allows customers to place multiple workloads on one infrastructure, with predictable and consistent performance. NetApp wants to help customers utilize their data in the best possible way, including applications related to AI and machine learning. They want to ensure that companies are putting their data in the most efficient infrastructure and offer a portfolio of solutions to