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Omri Gazitt, VP of Products and Services at HPE joins us for Conversations in the Cloud to discuss the cloud of the future. According to Omri, HPE’s cloud strategy is centered on two main beliefs: the cloud of the future will be Hybrid and Open. Hybrid is the belief that HPE’s customers want to realize the order-of-magnitude improvements in agility and efficiency brought about by cloud computing, whether they are running private clouds, renting managed clouds, or deploying applications in a public cloud. Open is the belief that multi-vendor open source ecosystems win out over closed ones, and HPE is investing in OpenStack and Cloud Foundry as the IaaS and PaaS open source projects that will power the clouds of the future. Finally, Omri gives an overview of the new wave of solutions introduced by HPE in June, including Helion Cloud Suite 1.0, Helion Stackato 4.0, and Helion CloudSystem 10. To find out more go to HPE’s Grounded in The Cloud blog or follow Omri on Twitter at https://twitter.com/omrig

Steve Sardella and Robert Vogt from EMC discuss two new products based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family. First up is Kazeon, a tool for use in eDiscovery that searches various file types and unstructured data. Next is VMAX SP, a storage platform built for the cloud with features like multi-tenancy and policy-based automated provisioning. For more information, visit www.emc.com and click on the products tab.

Ben Wu, director of sales and marketing for Quanta, stops by to talk about a reference architecture/demo from Quanta and Amplidata showing scale-out-storage. In scale-out-storage, data is stored across the chassis, allowing Quanta to show a 1U rack with 12 hard drives and close to 1 petabyte of storage, while only consuming five watts of power per terabyte. For more information, visit http://www.quantatw.com/Quanta/english/Default.aspx or www.intelcloudbuilders.com.

Jerome Lecat, the CEO of Scality, stops by to talk about reliably and securely storing massive amounts of data in the cloud using erasure coding. The RING storage infrastructure solution enables storage providers to easily scale up to exabytes using commodity server hardware with direct attached storage. For more information, visit www.scality.com and www.intelcloudbuilders.com.

Sandeep Brahmarouthu, Business Development from Cloudera, discusses the company and its scalable framework to process and analyze big data. Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution is coupled with proprietary management software and offered to mainstream enterprises to help them analyze their customer data. For more information, visit www.cloudera.com.

From October 2012: Paul Speciale, VP of products for Amplidata, chats about scale out storage and large object storage – storing very large unstructured data at petabyte scale. Amplidata worked with Quanta on a reference architecture using Quanta hardware and Amplidata software to store data durably and at a low cost. For more information, visit www.amplidata.com.

From September 2012: Gordon Haff, senior cloud strategy manager with Red Hat, discusses the company’s hybrid cloud-management framework called CloudForms. CloudForms spans an entire infrastructure while managing cloud applications without vendor lock-in. For more information visit www.redhat.com.

Robert Rounsavall and Jose Gonzalez from Trapezoid discuss the company’s products – Trapezoid Data Intelligence – in the areas of hardware trust and security that allow moving into and out of the cloud in a secure manner. They also touch on a proof of concept demo with Terremark and National Australia bank that addresses the Open Data Center Alliance’s security and provider assurance usage models. For more information on Trapezoid, visit: www.trapezoid.com.

From August 2012: Ray Solnik, president of US operations for Appnomic, discusses the company’s work in automating the data center and IT operations for cloud companies and enterprises to deliver a great end user experience. He also discusses Appnomic’s involvement with the Open Data Center Alliance. For more information visit www.appnomic.com.

From July 2012: Kevin Reid, CEO/CTO of Virtustream, stops by to talk his company’s background in IaaS and private cloud services, and also to discuss what they’ve done product-wise to address the ODCA Usage Models surrounding security and a Trusted Execution Platform (moving beyond trusted apps to a hardware level). Visit www.virtustream.com for more information.

From July 2012: Roger Foreman, a product marketing manager from Dell, stops by to talk about managing power in the data center with Open Manage Power Center, which allows an IT Manager to think about power across the data center and implement controls/power capping. Visit www.dell.com/powercenter for more information.

Steve Steir, VP of platform engineering at VCE, stops by to talk about the company’s converged infrastructure deployments. The VCE Vblock* consists of a standard deployment of network, storage and compute designed to tall within guard rails that the customer can fine tune. For more information on VCE visit www.vce.com.

Tim Roddy, Sr. Director Product Marketing from McAfee, chats about some of the biggest security concerns when moving data and applications to the cloud including malware, compliance issues, data leakage, and identity management.

Brian Gracely from Cisco chats about driving relevance from networking perspective, moving into hyperscale datacenter networks, the company's Open Data Center Alliance membership, and platform as a service (PaaS).

NetApp’s Mike McNamara talks about the company’s new Ethernet Advantage program and two new reference architectures, focused on unified networking for 10 GBbE with NFS and iSCSI.

Michael Joffee from Microsoft discusses the Windows Server* products and the opportunity for cloud computing.

Gerardo Pico from Gproxy stops by to talk about Gproxy's work in the user interface/user experience field.

Dave Nicholson and Gail Rutkousky from EMC’s Alliance team talk about moving towards an IT infrastructure company. They discuss standardizing on Intel® architecture-based platforms, the parallelism of workloads, and secure on-boarding of apps.

Pete Downing from Citrix talks through some challenges in migrating applications to the cloud: Interoperability of VMs, management in a heterogeneous environment, optimizing apps for the cloud, and his work in expanding use cases for the cloud.

Ellen Rubin from CloudSwitch chats about Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and how the company enables enterprise customers to move their applications in the cloud while allowing them to look and behaving as if they’re running locally.