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Jon Kohler, Technical Director of the Healthcare Solutions team at Nutanix, joins us on this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss solutions that Intel and Nutanix are working on. Nutanix is currently working with Intel on advancing Nutanix’s solutions in the Healthcare market, specifically around supporting large scale up databases on a scale out storage systems. Jon talks about some of the life critical workloads that customers can run with confidence, by making use of the latest and greatest Intel hardware as well as all of the software optimizations that Nutanix and Intel have collaborated on. To learn more about Nutanix, visit https://www.nutanix.com/ or follow Nutanix on Twitter https://twitter.com/nutanix.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Philipp Reisner, CEO of Linbit joins us to discuss Linbit and the work they are doing with open-source software for provisioning, replicating, and managing block storage on Linux systems. Philipp talks about Linstor, a management tool for storage volumes that was launched by Linbit in 2018. Linstor provides persistent Linux block storage for Kubernetes and OpenShift environments. Philipp also explains why Linbit thinks Intel® Rack Scale Design (Intel® RSD) fundamentally changes the way data centers are built, managed, and expanded over time. To learn more about Linbit and the work they are doing with Intel, visit www.linbit.com or follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/linbit.

Dana Chang, Vice President and Co-founder at Atipa Technologies, joins us on this week’s Conversations in the Cloud to discuss Atipa’s Polaris Select clusters, which unify HPC and visualization into a single HPCV platform. These clusters are pre-configured to provide everything necessary for parallel computing visualization and cluster management. The Polaris Select solution is verified for both Intel® Select Solutions for Professional Visualization and Intel® Select Solutions for Simulation and Modeling. Atipa Polaris Select solution is built on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Intel® AVX-512, and include Intel® Omni-Path Architecture, as well as Intel® SSDs with NVMe. Polaris HPCV clusters are fully customizable per customer requirements, and can deliver high fidelity, photo-realistic images even with datasets become large and complex. Use cases for the solution range from animation and engineering, to oil and gas and life sciences. Find out more information at www.atipa.com or view a demo at SC18 this

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, we’re joined by Matt Meinel, SVP of Business Development and Solutions Architecture at Levyx, and Rick Walsworth, VP of Product and Solution Marketing at Vexata. The companies worked on a joint solution using Vexata's ultra-fast NVMe Flash arrays in conjunction with Levyx's low-latency software to achieve increased performance with less infrastructure, resulting in a 300% improvement in the price/performance ratio over the industry's next best alternative solution. At the core of Levyx low-latency software is the company’s indexing algorithm, which integrates with Vexata’s NVMe-based systems to make the best use of their IO controller. After studying bottlenecks in the IO stack, Vexata re-architected the stack around a data path using acceleration via FPGAs to deliver fast, low-latency services out to the applications. For financial use cases, the companies can achieve IO bottleneck breakthrough with the addition of Intel FGPA-based calculations for derivative co

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Dave Cain, Senior Architect at Red Hat and Seema Mehta, Enterprise Solutions Manager at Intel, join us to discuss Intel® Select Solutions for Red Hat OpenShift Container-Native Storage. Dave and Seema talk about how these solutions are optimized to run an on-premise, private container platform that is customizable and fully interoperable with existing infrastructure and environments. Intel Select Solutions are fully verified so enterprises can spend less time researching infrastructure and simply implement a leading open-source container solution powered by leading hardware. To learn more about Red Hat’s solutions go to https://www.openshift.com/ or follow Red Hat on Twitter at https://twitter.com/redhat.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Greg Kettmann, Senior Product Manager at Lenovo, joins us again to talk about the Intel® Select Solution for Windows Server Software Defined Storage (WSSD) and Lenovo’s ThinkAgile MX Certified Nodes. Lenovo’s WSSD solutions come in two different flavors: hyper-converged and disaggregated. Greg shares that Windows Server* Datacenter edition provides a software-defined storage feature that enables highly available, highly scalable storage from industry-standard servers and locally attached drives. Greg also discusses Lenovo’s launch of Lenovo MX certified nodes and the benefits that it will bring to customers. To learn more go to https://lnv.gy/2MGln6A or follow Lenovo on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Lenovodc.

On this week’s Conversations in the Cloud, James Senicka, director of technical marketing at VMware, joins to discuss VMware’s longstanding innovations in the data center, specifically the software-defined data center that encompasses server, storage, and network virtualization with workload automation and management. These components are integrated into VMware Cloud Foundation, which provides vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and the vRealize suite as a single offering that customers can deploy. Cloud Foundation delivers the flexibility and agility of a public cloud to on-premise clouds, and with NXS Hybrid Connect, can quickly connect public and private clouds for easy workload migration. The new Intel® Select Solutions for VMware Cloud Foundation additionally provides customers specific configurations that offers known performance capabilities. For more information, visit vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation. Visit intel.com/cloud to learn about Hybrid Cloud & visit http://intel.ly/HybridCloudSolutions for details about Intel

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Dominic Daninger, VP of Engineering at Nor-Tech, joins us to talk about the work that Nor-Tech has done on the Intel® Select Solution for Simulation and Modeling. Dominic explains that the Intel Select Solution for Simulation and Modeling consists of pre-validated components that are designed to meet the demands of high performance computing (HPC) applications. The NT-HPC Simulation and Modeling Cluster comprises several key hardware and software components: Intel® Xeon Scalable processors, Intel® Omni-Path Architecture HPC fabric for latency-sensitive workloads, and other Intel technologies that benefit HPC applications. Dominic also shares some real-world examples that Nor-Tech has worked on in the simulation and modeling space. To learn more go to https://www.nor-tech.com/solutions/hpc/ or follow Nor-Tech on Twitter at https://twitter.com/nortechhpc.

On this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, we’re joined by Greg Kettmann, Senior Product Manager at Lenovo, to discuss the company’s product line ThinkAgile SX for Microsoft Azure Stack (SXM). The integrated rackscale solution features a hyper-covered infrastructure built on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors utilizing Intel® Optane™ technology and Microsoft Windows Server Software-Defined Storage. The ThinkAgile SXM solution is as a truly turnkey hybrid cloud solution that is professionally deployed by Lenovo. Greg discusses the future of hybrid cloud, and how he sees platform-as-a-service and containers as the future of the industry. Lenovo deployed the first Azure Stack solution with Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and Greg also notes that Lenovo is the first to qualify the new Intel® Select Solution for Microsoft Azure Stack. Learn more at www.lenovo.com or https://twitter.com/Lenovo. For more information, go to: www.intel.com/cloud

We’re joined on this episode of Conversations in the Cloud by Andy Leiserson, Chief Architect at Fortanix. Andy outlines the company’s belief in deterministic security and the need to protect data while it’s in use, in addition to the traditionally protected data at rest and in transit. Fortanix uses Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) in its Runtime Encryption Platform and Self-Defending Key Management Service. Intel SGX helps create a trusted execution environment where applications bring their own security, allowing those apps to run in a secure enclave. This allows customers utilizing cloud services to maintain the security of their own apps even while running in an untrusted cloud. A prime example is their solution for disrupting the Hardware Security Module (HSM) with a less costly, more manageable, and more scalable cloud-native key management service. Andy sees customers excited about the new data protections Intel SGX offers, particularly at runtime. Learn more at www.fortanix.com or follow

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Vaughn Stewart, Vice President of Technology Alliance Partners at Pure Storage, joins us to talk about shared accelerated storage. Vaughn talks about how Pure is focused on helping customers adopt solid state technologies as well as bring next generation technologies like Non-Volatile Memory and NVM Express* into customer data centers. Vaughn also talks about where the industry is going and the role that Pure Storage products like FlashArray, FlashBlade, Evergreen Storage, FlashStack™ and AIRI™. Pure Storage uses various Intel® processors and instruction sets to deliver on their vision of re-inventing storage. To learn more go to https://www.purestorage.com/ or follow Pure Storage on Twitter at https://twitter.com/PureStorage.

Peter Hanley, Marketing Specialist in GIGABYTE’S Network and Communications Business Unit, joins us on Conversations in the Cloud to talk about hardware solutions for software defined storage. Peter shares that GIGABYTE integrates Intel’s leading processor technologies into the systems that their customers require and recently they started working with Intel on Ceph featuring Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel® Optane™ Memory Technology. GIGABYTE is focused on Ceph because it has become the storage system of choice for many people, due to its multiple storage formats, scalability, and high availability. To learn more about GIGABYTE’S solutions go to http://b2b.gigabyte.com or follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GigabyteServer.

Tony Harvey, Senior Product Manager from Lenovo joins Conversations in the Cloud this week to discuss Lenovo’s Intel® Select Solution for VMware vSAN. Intel Select Solutions provide pre-verified solutions that allow enterprise users to quickly deploy optimized solutions. Lenovo vSAN ReadyNodes with Intel® Optane™ technology provide a strong combination of hardware and software for increased reliability and flexibility. Users are able to handle multiple workloads on the same hyperconverged infrastructure, achieving strong performance benefits. For more information, follow Tony on Twitter https://twitter.com/tonyknowspower, and learn about Lenovo products at www.lenovo.com and Intel Select Solutions at www.intel.com/selectsolutions.

Wendy Wu, Business Development Lead for VMware Solutions at QCT, joins Intel Conversations in the Cloud to talk about Quanta’s Intel Select Solution: QxStack VMware Edition-vSAN ReadyNode Series. Quanta is working with Intel on Intel Select Solutions to assist partners and customers in accelerating data center transformation. Wendy talks about some of the key features and benefits of QCT’s Intel Select Solution, which includes simplifying modernization, strengthening reliability, accelerating time to value, and ensuring performance in business-critical scenarios. To learn more about Quanta’s solutions go to http://go.qct.io/solutions/ or follow Quanta on Twitter at https://twitter.com/QuantaQCT.

Prasad Venkatachar, Senior Solutions Product Manager at Lenovo, joins us to discuss the work that Intel and Lenovo have done together on Intel® Select Solution for Microsoft SQL Server* Enterprise Data Warehouse. Prasad talks about why customers should look to Lenovo for their SQL infrastructure, including the close work they do with Intel and Microsoft to design, test, optimize, and certify solutions that speed customer implementation and time to value. Finally, Prasad and Jake walk through some customer examples of how their solution has been implemented. For more information about Lenovo go to http://lnv.gy/2oWHX1c or follow Lenovo on Twitter at https://twitter.com/LenovoDC. Discover how advanced analytics can help transform your business: intel.com/analytics

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Jacob Smith, SVP of engagement and Co-founder of Packet, joins us to discuss the promise of the cloud delivered on bare metal. Jacob and his brother founded Packet in 2014, with the intention of automating fundamental infrastructure. Jacob talks about Packet’s new collaboration with Intel to accelerate adoption of Intel® Optane™ SSDs as a data center fast storage and memory solution. Packet will provide on-demand access to the Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform with large format Intel® Optane™ technology at no cost. This will provide an easy way for open source and commercial software projects to benchmark and optimize this cutting edge technology, and unleash new innovations. To learn more about Packet and how you can accelerate with Optane, visit https://www.acceleratewithoptane.com/.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Ben Bolles, Leader of Pivot3’s Product and Strategy teams, joins us to discuss how Intel® Solid State Drive Data Center Family for NVM Express and Pivot3’s QoS Engine transform hyperconvergence. Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) systems have emerged as a way to improve simplicity and economics in data centers and edge environments. Ben talks about what types of companies and application workloads benefit from HCI systems and how Pivot3 is enabling Intel® SSD Data Center Family for NVMe* and Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors. To learn more about Pivot3, go to www.pivot3.com, or follow Pivot3 on Twitter https://twitter.com/Pivot3Inc.

Lee Abrahamson, VP and CTO of Equus, joins us on this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to talk about breaking vendor lock-in with white box server management, as well as dispelling some server management myths. Lee explains the use of open standards in management tools, regardless of the vendor, and how this benefits IT organizations. Equus uses Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors to take advantage of the significant performance and the rich feature set that results in compelling benefits across a broad variety of usage models and applications like HPC, Software Defined Storage, Hybrid Cloud Services, Hadoop, and IoT. To learn more about Equus, go to https://www.equuscs.com/solutions/server-management/ or follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/EquusCS.

Kannan Mani, Master Technologist of Data Analytics Solutions at HPE, joins us on this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss Intel® Select Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server* Business Operations. Intel and HPE have been working together to deliver solutions to customers that are completely validated and tested. Kannan talks about Intel Select Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server 2016* on HPE ProLiant DL380* Gen10 Servers and explains how optimizing performance of this software on HPE servers offers fast transactional performance, while providing predictable outcomes for Microsoft SQL Server 2016* OLTP database workloads. Jake and Kannan also talk about why these solutions are so important for the future of analytics. To learn more about HPE, go to https://www.hpe.com/info/dm-ra or follow Kannan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/kantwit. Discover how advanced analytics can help transform your business: intel.com/analytics

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Will Wetton, Head of K5 Global Offerings at Fujitsu joins us to talk about enabling enterprise cloud journeys with Fujitsu K5. K5 is an open, agile, and compatible enterprise cloud platform that is powered by OpenStack and uniquely offers IaaS and PaaS services to support both systems of record and systems of engagement. Will explains how Fujitsu enables digital transformation on K5 and the work they are doing with Intel® Xeon® processors to power their cloud – whether it is private, public, or hybrid. For more information, go to https://s-portal.cloud.global.fujitsu.com/.