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In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Greg Campbell, Co-Founder and CTO of Yottabyte joins us to discuss building a private cloud with Yottabyte software and commodity hardware. Jake and Greg talk about nested multi-tenancy models, virtual data centers, and how Yottabyte and Intel are working together to provide users with a latency free architecture. Greg also talks about how Yottabyte takes advantage of advanced Intel® technologies—including Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel® Solid State Drive Data Center Family for NVM Express*, to offer users modular and highly scalable building blocks when using Yottabyte's private cloud infrastructure software. To learn more about Yottabyte, visit http://www.yottabyte.com/ or follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/YottabyteLLC.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Brent Compton, Senior Director of Storage Solution Architectures at Red Hat, and Brien Porter, Senior Program Manager for Storage Solutions at Intel, join us to discuss software defined storage solutions for enterprises. Brien and Brent talk about their focus on making Spark, Hadoop, and Ceph work better on Intel hardware and helping enterprises scale efficiently. Brent discusses why it is better to run BigData on Ceph including sharing data sets between multiple clusters for more controlled growth. Brien and Brent also talk about why the Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform is uniquely qualified to run in a BigData architecture. To learn more about what Red Hat and Intel are doing to improve data center agility and flexibility, visit http://www.redhat.com/Intel.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Julie Herd, Director of Technical Marketing at E8 Storage, joins us to discuss the amazing storage performance E8 Storage is delivering with the Intel® SSD Data Center Family with NVM Express* (NVMe*). Julie discusses how E8 Storage built a new architecture specifically for Intel SSDs with NVMe, which allows them to deliver extremely high flash storage performance to cloud service providers, without compromising on reliability or availability. Julie also explains why E8 Storage’s shared accelerated storage solution is ideally suited for data-hungry applications that demand high performance and low latency to drive business revenue, including real-time analytics, financial/trading applications, and web-based services. Learn more about E8 Storage go to https://e8storage.com/ or follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/E8Storage.

Sushant Rao, Senior Director of Product Marketing at DataCore, joins us on Conversations in the Cloud to discuss the importance of disaster recovery in the cloud and how businesses can protect and recover data from anywhere. Sushant explains why companies need to be prepared for large scale disasters like wildfires and hurricanes, which could impact their operations and knock out their data centers. Sushant talks about the products that they are working on to make disaster recovery easier including Asynchronous Remote Replication, which is made possible with DataCore SANsymphony™ software and Intel® Xeon® processors. Along with those efforts, DataCore also recently brought hybrid cloud replication to the Azure Marketplace. To learn more about DataCore go to www.datacore.com or follow DataCore on Twitter athttps://twitter.com/DataCore?lang=en.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Liran Zvibel, Co-founder and CTO of WekaIO, joins us to talk about next generation file systems for NVMe and NVMe-oF. Liran discusses how Intel and WekaIO demonstrated a native NVMe-oF system on the new “ruler” form factor for Intel® SSDs, which showcased a revolutionary storage capacity of beyond 1PB in 1U while delivering in excess of 3 million IOPS. Liran explains that the combination of an Intel-based NVMe-oF system with WekaIO Matrix™ Storage Software results in extremely high performance. To learn more about Intel and WekaIO’s solutions go to www.weka.io or follow WekaIO on Twitter at https://twitter.com/wekaio?lang=en.

We are joined by Sanjeet Singh, Director of Storage Solutions at SUSE to discuss the recent release of SUSE Enterprise Storage 5. Sanjeet illustrates how legacy storage products have reached a bottleneck and are unable to scale to meet rapidly growing amounts of data. He discusses how SUSE Enterprise Storage is a software defined storage product that enables customers to tune their data center storage to their exact individual workload needs, significantly reducing cost and providing unlimited scalability. Sanjeet also talks about the SUSE Disk to Disk Backup Solution, allowing customers to use their preferred backup ISV to better protect their data and store more on their own on-prem environment. To learn more, visit SUSE online at https://www.suse.com/products/suse-enterprise-storage/ or follow them on Twitter https://twitter.com/SUSE.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Aaron Delp, Director of Product Marketing for Emerging Technologies at NetApp, joins us to discuss the company’s Next Generation Data Center (NGDC) and hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions for the Enterprise. Aaron explains how NetApp is using the components of the NGDC, like consolidation, scale, simplicity, and automation, to provide customers with the ability to scale in a predictable and repeatable manner. Aaron also talks about the journey of HCI and NGDC, and how they are finally coming together to solve real data center problems. To learn more about NetApp go to www.netapp.com or follow Aaron on Twitter at https://twitter.com/aarondelp.

Venky Nagapudi, VP of Product Management for Enterprise and Cloud at Vexata, joins this episode of Intel Conversations in the Cloud to discuss bringing application acceleration to end users. Venky explains that Vexata’s mission is to deliver analytics at the highest speed possible. They achieve this by using Intel® Xeon® processors, Intel® Solid State Drives, and Vexata Arrays. Intel and Vexata have worked together to create many solutions that enable performance that meets customer’s needs. Venky also talks about how Vexata is focusing on enabling enterprise-class storage services around 3D XPoint™ technology. To learn more about Vexata go to www.vexata.com or follow Venky on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Venky_Nagapudi. 3D XPoint is a trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Brian Huang, Senior Director of ProphetStor, joins us to discuss ProphetStor’s advancements in self-driving storage infrastructure technology. ProphetStor recently announced their new product called datacenter.ai, which is an AI product that can be used to predict disk failure and storage server performance. Brian explains the benefits of a more agile, automated, and intelligent storage infrastructure, and how both enterprise and cloud services data centers can utilize this technology. Brian also chats about ProphetStor’s relationship with Intel and how they utilize multiple Intel products including, Intel® Solid State Drive Data Center Family for NVM Express*. To learn more about ProphetStor go to www.prophetstor.com or follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ProphetStor.

Arjun Narang, Product Manager at Maxta, joins us in this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss Maxta’s hyperconvergence software. Maxta is a software company that unites compute and storage devices, with a VM-centric focus. Arjun explains the benefits of software and VM-centric hyperconvergence and how Maxta offers software that runs on any hardware. Arjun also talks about how Maxta is taking advantage of the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform and has seen a significant improvement in performance. To learn more about Maxta go to http://www.maxta.com, or follow Maxta on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MaxtaInc.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Raphael Meyerowitz, Assistant Vice President of Data Center Solutions at Presidio, joins us to discuss the Presidio Solution Sets. Raphael talks about how Presidio provides digital transformation solutions through the full IT cycle including professional, management, and support services. Raphael discusses what he considers the most important issues facing the data center: security, hybrid cloud, and data center modernization. Presidio Data Center Solution Sets feature the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and the latest Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X to help customers address these issues. To learn more about Presidio go to http://www.presidio.com/ or follow Presidio on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Presidio.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud we are joined by John Skinner, Senior Vice President of Business Development at HyTrust, to discuss security, regulations, and the work that both Intel and HyTrust are doing to make the cloud as secure as possible. John discusses a solution that HyTrust and Intel worked closely on to create called BoundaryControl. BoundaryConrol for VMs uses Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) and runs on Intel® Xeon® Processors, to secure the most important elements in virtualized datacenters and cloud applications, allowing you to meet data sovereignty, data security, and hardware specification requirements.? To learn more about HyTrust and data sovereignty go to https://www.hytrust.com/solutions/data-sovereignty/, or follow HyTrust on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HyTrust.

Stephen Nichols, Director of Sales Engineering at Virtuozzo, joins Conversations in the Cloud to discuss the evolution of software defined storage as a key pillar of hyperconverged infrastructure. Stephen talks about the benefits of software defined storage compared to local attached storage and dedicated storage appliances and how hyperconvergence provides simple, flexible storage models. Stephen highlights that they are delivering storage for containers and HCI deployments at a critical time for businesses that are transitioning to containers and need persistent storage. To learn more about Virtuozzo go to https://virtuozzo.com/products/virtuozzo-storage/, or follow Virtuozzo on Twitter at https://twitter.com/VirtuozzoInc.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Yonatan Klein, Director of Product Management at Velostrata joins us to discuss the value of cloud workload mobility and what Velostrata is doing to make it easier for enterprises to move their workloads to and from the cloud. He talks about the challenges of cloud migration, and how Velostrata is solving these problems with a new approach. Intel has invested in Velostrata to help them accelerate growth, particularly within the mid-to-large enterprise market, and continue to innovate within this space. To learn more about Velostrata go to www.velostrata.com, or follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/velostrata.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Sundip Arora, Director of Product Marketing at Kaminario joins us to discuss how Kaminario's next generation storage arrays bring cloud-scale storage on premise with dynamic provisioning. Sundip talks about Kaminario’s announcement during Flash Memory Summit of its K2.N NVMe-based storage array and Flex dynamic orchestration, as well as the work they are doing with all-flash software-defined core architecture and framework. Sundip highlights that the combination of flash storage and Kaminario’s software-defined storage architecture running on advanced Intel® Xeon® processors enables users to efficiently and easily scale their business without compromise. To learn more go to http://kaminario.com/, or follow Kaminario on Twitter at https://twitter.com/KaminarioFlash.

Jim Shocrylas, Director of Product Marketing at SIOS, joins this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss how SIOS uses machine learning-based analytics to optimize virtual infrastructure performance and efficiency. Jim explains that SIOS iQ analyzes the behavior of interrelated components in virtual infrastructures to understand the normal patterns of these complex behaviors as they change over time. This approach enables them to automatically identify the root causes of performance issues and offer precise and prescriptive suggestions in order to resolve the issue at hand and optimize the environment. To learn more about SIOS and how they are optimized for Intel products go to https://cloudbuilders.intel.com/membership/sios-technology.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Kai Li, Vice President of 99Cloud joins us to talk about how 99Cloud is dedicated to solving problems for enterprises in OpenStack adoption and in turn is taking a lead in OpenStack in China. Mr. Li also talks about how 99Cloud is using their OpenStack platform, which is built on Intel® Xeon® processors, to successfully deploy a large-scale SDI solution for State Grid, the world’s largest electric-utility company, which runs a complex, distributed, mission-critical network of data centers across China. To learn more about 99Cloud, visit http://99cloud.net/en/.

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Paul Lewis, Chief Technology Officer of the Americas at Hitachi Data Systems, joins us to discuss Hitachi's Unified Compute Platform and how the UCP Director will help manage VMs at the same time as hardware elements in a workload. Paul discusses the power of data in both changing businesses and interacting with the physical world. Paul mentions using data and digital transformations to deal with digital disruptors and improve operational efficiency, customer experience, and business models. Hitachi is elevating the value of data to create a data centric concept and is encouraging a choose your own data center architecture model to allow for greater customization. To learn more visit www.HDS.com, or follow Hitachi Data Systems on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HDScorp

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Claus Jorgensen, Principal Program Engineer at Microsoft joins us to discuss some exciting new transformations that are happening at Microsoft and Intel. Claus talks about Microsoft’s participation in the Intel® Optane™ technology launch, as well as their collaboration on Intel® Select Solutions for Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI). Microsoft is taking advantage of various new technologies announced with the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, like Intel® Optane™ SSDs, Intel® AVX-512, and Intel® Integrated Ethernet featuring RMDA for high data throughout. To learn more go to www.aka.ms/spacesdirect, or follow Claus on Twitter at https://twitter.com/clausjor. To learn more about Hybrid Cloud visit www.intel.com/Cloud

Richard Brunner, Principal Engineer and VP of Server Platform Technology at VMware, joins Conversations in the Cloud to discuss the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors and how VMware is collaborating with Intel to deliver new data center solutions, based on the new processor capabilities. Richard discusses how they have been working closely with Intel to ensure that VMware can immediately take advantage of Intel® Select Solutions. Richard mentions that VMware is excited about taking advantage of Intel® Volume Management Device (Intel® VMD), which will improve manageability and serviceability for NVMe devices. Intel VMD will be supported on vSAN as well as vSphere, with Intel® Optane™ SSDs. To learn more go to www.vmware.com , or follow VMware on Twitter at https://twitter.com/VMware. To learn more about Hybrid Cloud visit www.intel.com/Cloud