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In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Ugur Tigli, CTO of Minio, joins us to talk about object storage in cloud native environments. Minio is a high performance distributed object storage server, designed for large-scale private cloud infrastructure. Ugur discusses the benefits of cloud native object storage and how Minio is now Amazon S3 compatible. Jake and Ugur also talk about how Minio is focusing on helping customers achieve their business objectives by using the best Minio technology possible and using Intel technologies like Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) and Intel® SSDs to increase performance. To learn more about Minio, go to https://minio.io/ or follow Ugur on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ugurtigli.

Lee Howard, CTO of Global Industry Solutions and Alliances with NetApp, joins Conversations in the Cloud this week to discuss a shift in data management and the criticality of businesses leveraging their available data for successful decision making regardless of the platform where it resides.  NetApp’s vision is that the benefits customers have come to expect in a traditional on-prem architecture are protected as they implement a Cloud environment.  Howard discusses the goals that drive their data management strategy – create an agile environment that takes into consideration issues of data sovereignty and data resilience, while guaranteeing business continuity.  Visit cloud.netapp.com for use cases and resources, netapp.io for deep dive technical materials, and follow Howard on Twitter @KeepHoweird.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Aaron Lin, Field Application Engineering Manager and Hunter Chen, Product VP at ASRock Rack, join us to talk about cryptocurrency mining using Intel® Xeon® Phi processors and ASRock Rack products. Hunter and Aaron talk about the products that they offer their customers and the main differentiators from their competitors. They also talk about ASRock Rack’s AI and HPC solutions. Hunter and Aaron end the episode with a brief description of where they think the industry is going with cryptocurrency and bitcoin mining and the role that ASRock Rack is going to play. For more information, go to http://www.asrockrack.com/general/news.asp?id=124.

Beyhan Çalışkan, CEO and Founder of NGX Storage, joins us on Intel Conversations in the Cloud to discuss how to solve storage problems with a unified architecture. Beyhan talks about what NGX Storage can solve both in traditional storage and the cloud storage market with their unified architecture. Beyhan and Jake also discuss how NGX Storage is using a Predictive Smart Analytics platform to protect and solve customer problems, as well as current and future uses of All Flash Storage Arrays, Non-Volatile Memory Express* over Fabrics, and how NGX Storage is using those technologies. To learn more about NGX Storage go to https://www.ngxstorage.com.

Sim Upadhyayula, Senior Director of Marketing at Supermicro, joins us on Conversations in the Cloud to discuss Intel® Select Solutions and the work that Intel and Supermicro have been doing together. Sim gives an overview of Supermicro’s Intel Select Solution and its benefit to end customers, as well as an explanation of Supermicro’s end-to-end green computing solutions. Intel Select Solutions are verified hardware and software stacks that are optimized for specific software workloads across compute, storage, and network. Sim talks about how these solutions allow customers to do a lot more, with a lot less. For more information on Supermicro and their Intel Select Solutions, go to https://supermicro.com/solutions/index.cfm. Discover how advanced analytics can help transform your business: intel.com/analytics

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Suyash Sinha, CEO of Midfin Systems, joins us to talk about software-defined multi-data center clouds on Intel infrastructure. Suyash explains that Midfin System's intelligent software, eFabric*, combines network virtualization with compute and storage virtualization to provide a fully software-defined data center. He also discusses INFRASTRUCTURE 3.0, which encompasses four main focus points – plug-and-play open hardware, a distributed control plane, a micros-segmented data plane, and cloud connection. To learn more about Midfin and their collaboration with Intel go to http://www.midfinsystems.com/main/ or follow Midfin on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MidfinSystems.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Jason McGee, IBM fellow, VP, and CTO of the IBM Cloud Platform, joins us to discuss IBM’s cloud platform and the role it plays in the industry. Jason discusses IBM’s new offering for their Cloud Container Service with Trusted Compute and how they are working with Intel to secure the base compute platform with Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) and Intel® Cloud Integrity Technology (Intel® CIT) to create a chain of trust, rooted in hardware. Jason also talks about the fundamental tenants of IBM’s cloud strategy, which is optimize for the enterprise and built on open. He encourages listeners to go get their hands dirty, by visiting https://www.ibm.com/cloud/container-service and trying out containers and kubernetes on IBM Cloud. IBM Blog: https://ibm.co/2pfNBvv IBM/Intel Container Security Whitepaper: https://ibm.co/2HB7lQK IBM/Intel Container Security Video: http://bit.ly/2Gxh9w2

Matt Meinel, Senior Vice President - Sales, Business Development and Solutions Architecture at Levyx joins this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss leading-edge financial services solutions that leverage high-performance data store technology. Levyx’s software-only solutions provide fundamental building blocks for next-generation software-defined storage infrastructure. Jake and Matt talk about Levyx’s software-defined data processors, Helium* and Xenon*, as well as the work that Levyx has been doing with financial model backtesting in capital markets with Intel® Optane™ technology, and Intel® Programmable Acceleration Card (Intel® PAC) with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGAs. To learn more about Levyx, go to www.levyx.com or follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/levyxinc.

Ishai Tal, Head of Platform and Cloud Architecture at Carestream, joins us on this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss hyper-converged cloud solutions for healthcare using Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Ishai talks about the drive for a new era of healthcare and cloud solutions and why Caretsream is moving to the cloud for medical imaging. Ishai and Jake also discuss the pilots that Carestream completed utilizing Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8168 processors and Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) to render high resolution images on the server side rather than the client side, to accommodate a cloud-based model. To learn more about this trial and the work that Carestream is doing in medical imaging, go to http://intel.ly/2GCsXfi, or follow Carestream on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Carestream.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Bob Ward, Principal Architect from Microsoft joins us to discuss Microsoft SQL16 and SQL17 as well as Intel® Select Solutions. Bob talks about all of the breakthrough features that have been built into Microsoft SQL Server* like mission-critical high availability, security, and performance. Additionally, SQL Server 2017 now offers native support for Linux as well as Windows. Jake and Bob also talk about Intel Select Solutions, which are verified hardware and software stacks that are optimized for specific software workloads across compute, storage, and network. To learn more about what Intel and Microsoft are currently doing with Microsoft SQL, go to https://aka.ms/sqlonlinuxroadshow, or visit www.intel.com/selectsolutions. Discover how advanced analytics can help transform your business: intel.com/analytics

Dr. Julian Chesterfield, Chief Scientific Officer at OnApp, joins us on Conversations in the Cloud to discuss solving storage performance challenges in large-scale virtualized environments. Julian talks about performance challenges in virtualized networks as well as where bottlenecks occur and why. OnApp's approach to addressing these challenges includes software-defined storage architecture enhancements, as well as leveraging programmable hardware to optimize IO. OnApp’s enterprise cloud appliance combines Intel hardware with OnApp’s private/hybrid cloud software platform – a complete solution for building private clouds, managing private and public cloud infrastructure, and automating the way IT resources are accessed and consumed by users and departments. To learn more about OnApp, go to https://onapp.com/intel, or follow Julian on Twitter at https://twitter.com/chesterfield_j?lang=en.

John Zanni, President of Acronis, joins us on Conversations in the Cloud to discuss Acronis CloudRAID, Erasure Encoding, and using Blockchain for data protection. John talks about how Acronis is focused on data protection services in hybrid cloud environments and relies on Intel to provide performance and innovation that allows them to overcome storage challenges. John explains that CloudRAID, which is based on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, manages overhead and compute time, while solving data integrity, as well as data rebuild and recovery problems. To learn more about Acronis, visit https://www.acronis.com/en-us/, or follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Acronis?lang=en.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud episode, Tal Doron, Director of Solution Architecture at GigaSpaces talks about how the GigaSpaces’ InsightEdge platform and Intel deliver on fast-data analytics with their in-memory computing platform to accelerate data access, processing, and artificial intelligence. InsightEdge is an open-source in-memory insight platform that unifies fast-data analytics, AI, and real-time applications, helping organizations transform data to services at the speed of business. Tal talks about how GigaSpaces is utilizing Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors along with Intel® Optane™ technology to reduce storage access latencies and improve application throughput for mission critical real-time analytics and response. To learn more about GigaSpaces, visit www.gigaspaces.com, or follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GigaSpaces.

Tom Gallivan, Co-Founder of Storidge, joins Conversations in the Cloud to talk about fast and easy persistent storage for Docker Containers with Storidge and Intel. Tom talks about how automation and simplification are driving the innovation behind Storidge’s data management solution, and the work that they are doing with Intel to deliver performance for both on-prem and off-prem workloads. Jake and Tom discuss why Storidge is designing solutions that are purpose built for containers, including the ease of application deployment with persistent data. To learn more about Storidge, visit www.storidge.com, or follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/StoridgeInc.

Yaniv Romem, CTO and Co-Founder of Excelero, joins Conversations in the Cloud to discuss optimizing infrastructures for effective data analytics. Excelero offers a software-defined block storage solution designed to meet the performance and scalability requirements of next-generation analytics applications, called Excelero NVMesh. Yaniv talks about the changes that need to be made to address next-generation analytics, including faster storage and more scalable architectures. Excelero is utilizing Intel® Xeon® processors and well as Intel® Optane™ technology with 3D XPoint™ technology, to ensure consistency in performance and latency. To learn more about Excelero, visit https://www.excelero.com/, or follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ExceleroStorage.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, we are joined by Boyan Ivanov, CEO and Co-Founder of StorPool. Boyan reveals the science of building an efficient and high performance cloud powered by a high-availability web infrastructure. Jake and Boyan also talk about how StorPool’s distributed storage software, optimized on Intel® architecture, delivers amazingly low latency data access, while containing costs for cloud builders. Boyan looks to the future of data storage software and how StorPool will enable business edge for enterprises and cloud service providers.

Gou Rao, Co-Founder and CTO of Portworx, joins us on Conversations in the Cloud to discuss cloud native storage for production environments and how Portworx is involved. Jake and Gou chat about the impact of data without borders on IT, specifically how cloud native technologies, when combined with Portworx, can move faster and create better software that costs less to run. Intel and Portworx achieved breakthrough performance for containerized workloads by Combining Portworx PX-Enterprise with Intel® Xeon® processor-based platforms, Non-Volatile Memory Express* technology, and Enhanced Ethernet for Data Center (EEDC) technology. To learn more about Portworx Cloud Native storage, go to https://portworx.com/cloud-native-storage/.  More information about Kubernetes storage can be found at https://portworx.com/use-case/kubernetes-storage/ Follow Portworx on Twitter at https://twitter.com/portwx.

Yuval Dimnik, Founder of NooBaa, joins us on Conversations in the Cloud to discuss the future of IT and how NooBaa is working to shift with changes in the industry. Yuval chats about NooBaa’s solutions for private cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud. Yuval also discusses how NooBaa software is deployed as a virtual machine, allowing storage nodes and the metadata server to be scaled independently. NooBaa has been very active in the Intel® Builders Construction Zone, working to fine tune their product performance using Intel libraries. To learn more about NooBaa go to http://www.noobaa.com, or follow Yuval on Twitter at https://twitter.com/yuvaldim.

Dr. Rajeev Papneja, COO and Executive VP at ESDS Software Solutions, joins Intel Conversations in the Cloud to discuss how Intel and ESDS are accelerating digital transformation in the enterprise. Dr. Papneja discusses eNIight Cloud, their cloud hosting platform that utilizes Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors for a versatile, agile, and elastic cloud solution that automatically provisions resources to meet business-critical demands. This podcast also covers the importance of cloud and web hosting security and how to manage threats to data integrity in the cloud. To learn more about ESDS visit https://www.esds.co.in/ or follow ESDS on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ESDSDataCenter.

Tom Parker, Senior Product Manager for Cloud in the Data Center Group at Lenovo, joins this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to talk about delivering private and hybrid cloud solutions with Intel and Lenovo. Tom talks about the broad spectrum of Lenovo offerings, from Office 365 to the server level and now to involvement with Microsoft Azure Stack and hundreds of virtual machines. Tom mentions Lenovo’s recent collaboration with Intel and Microsoft on ThinkAgile* SX for Microsoft Azure Stack, this software-defined rack scale solution simplifies hybrid cloud and reduces the time to deploy cloud services. Microsoft Azure Stack is powered by the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform and is a verified Intel® Select Solution. To learn more about Lenovo ThinkAgile* SX for Microsoft Azure Stack, go to http://lnv.gy/2xPxNoC or follow Lenovo on Twitter at https://twitter.com/lenovo?lang=en. Learn more about Intel Hybrid Cloud: www.intel.com/cloud