Intel Conversations In The Cloud

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: 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: twitter.com/F5 Follow Jake on Twitter: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: 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: twitter.com/wesenseai Follow Jake on Twitter: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: 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: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Richard Gendal Brown, Chief Technology Officer of 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: forbes.com/sites/richardgendalbrown/2020/06/29/the-curious-world-of-confidential-computing-sharing-without-sharing/ Follow Richard on Twitter: twitter.com/gendal Follow Jake on Twitter: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: 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: intel.com/selectsolutions Follow Jeff on Twitter: twitter.com/jeffdenworth Follow Jake on Twitter: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: 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: intel.com/selectsolutions Follow Lee Caswell on Twitter: twitter.com/leecaswell Follow Jake Smith on Twitter: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: 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: fireblocks.com For more about Intel SGX, visit: intel.com/sgx

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: 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: netelastic.com

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: 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

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: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: itpeernetwork.intel.com/select-solutions-innovation

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: 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 […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: 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 […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: 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, […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: 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. […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: 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 this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: 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, […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: 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 […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: 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 […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: 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. […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Wendy Wu, Business Development Manager at Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), joins Conversations in the Cloud to talk about QCT’s new Intel Select Solutions for VMware vSAN. QCT has partnered with VMware since 2014 and QCT’s vSAN version 2 solution exceeds program standards. Wendy talks about that […]