Zach Hilliard always loved cars and started his career as a diesel mechanic. Today he’s senior director of site reliability engineering for Cyxtera Technologies, a Texas-based provider of data centers around the globe. He sees the Uberization of data centers, where companies tap unused computing resources much like how Uber puts ride hailers into empty car seats. “I have 59 data centers around the world,” Hilliard said. “That data center portfolio is our main bread and butter. So, I’m always asking, how do I ensure that a client’s hybrid cloud strategy is cohesive in all my data centers as well?” In this segment recorded at .NEXT in Anaheim 2019, Cyxtera explains how innovations like hyperconverged infrastructure and enterprise cloud software are modernizing IT, making data centers more cohesive with new technologies.

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In this Intel on AI podcast episode: There are many individuals (makers) creating artificial intelligence (AI) enabled solutions and many of which may help drive AI to the next level. Yet, there is a challenge for makers when moving from an inexpensive board used for development to large scale production that requires much more specialization and infrastructure. Aling Wu, the AI and IoT Alliance Director at AAEON, joins the Intel on AI Podcast to discuss how the AAEON UP Board Computer Board family for Professional Makers helps bridge the gap from maker market to large scale production. She highlights how AAEON works directly with makers to take their design and actually produce and ship in volume production in 6-12 month period of time. Aling also discusses how AAEON provides makers with easy shopping solutions for development boards with UP shop and a forum where makers can discuss and refine their solution called UP Community. She talks about how important AI on the edge is for the development of the AI industry and how AAEON uses Intel’s broad portfolio of technologies including FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array) and Intel Core process to achieve performance on the edge.

To learn more, visit:
aaeon.com

Visit Intel AI Builders at:
builders.intel.com/ai

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Intel Chip Chat – Network Insights audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Richard Orgias, Director, Segment and Audience Marketing at Fortinet, joins Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights to share how Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network – today and into the future.

Richard and his team are responsible for educating the industry and communication service providers specifically to prepare for the biggest opportunities in 5G and the security innovation that will drive networks to transform and virtualize.

In this interview, Richard speaks to current stage of industry collaboration and the approach necessary to provide increased flexibility and interoperability.
For more information visit:
fortinet.com

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Intel Chip Chat – Network Insights audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In the past 5 years, SD-WAN and universal CPE has become the first focus to introduce network virtualization to enterprise customers with new business models. Sven Freudenfeld, Chief Technology Officer for the Telecom Application BU at Lanner Electronics, joins Intel Chip Chat Network Insights to discuss the evolution of SD-WAN and uCPE platform, and share how Lanner is focused on defining new platform architectures that scale in the SD-WAN, uCPE and MEC use cases.

In this interview, Sven highlights industry collaboration through open standards development such as the Open Compute Project in order to accelerate whitebox solutions for the edge data center.

Sven shares the announcement of Lanner’s Intel Select Solution for vCDN which supports networking, compute, and storage, through an integrated platform. Learn why this solution will drive network adoption and virtualization and provides a framework for companies who are developing and deploying CDNs.

For more information visit:
lannerinc.com

To read more about Lanner’s white box solutions and ecosystem partners, visit:
whiteboxsolution.com

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In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: we are joined by Sim Upadhyayula, Senior Director of Solutions Enablement at Supermicro. In his role, Sim works with various enterprises and service providers to understand their data center needs and identify solutions. Sim discusses Supermicro’s newly available Intel Select Solutions for SAP HANA and its benefit to end customers, as well as their on-going collaboration with Intel.

Supermicro has been working with Intel since 1993, and their continued adoption of Intel technologies helps customers to maximize business outcomes. Supermicro strives to be on the leading edge of new technologies and deeply values standards for long term performance and availability of systems.
Sim views Intel Select Solutions for SAP HANA as part of the next generation of data center integration. Using Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory in the solution enables large-scale memory for data persistence, which is ideal for the SAP HANA platform. Users can expect shortened SAP database restart times, a smaller footprint, and lower cost so they can do more with less.

Intel Select Solutions for SAP HANA simplifies deployment by offering pre-tested and verified hardware designed together by Intel, SAP and Supermicro.
Sim emphasizes that a pre-validated solution removes the hassle of scoping and shortens the deployment cycle, both important time-savers for customers. He also touches on the underlying components shared by all emerging technologies from AI to multi-cloud.

For more information on Supermicro, visit:
supermicro.com

Explore the Intel Select Solutions for Analytics at:
intel.com/selectsolutions

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In this Intel on AI podcast episode: As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies rapidly advance many companies would like to take advantage of the potential of AI but can’t because they do not have the resources or skills for modeling and engineering. Yuan Shen, Founder and CEO of OneClick.AI, joins Intel on AI to talk about how OneClick enables businesses with no knowledge of AI and coding to solve complex business problems and drive real ROI with only a few clicks. He discusses how the OneClick.ai Automated Deep Learning (AutoDL) platform automates every step of AI model development supporting many different use cases including numeric prediction, classification, forecasting, recommendation, and image object detection. Yuan talks about how OneClick.AI has worked with the Intel AI Builders program to optimize deep learning on Intel Xeon Scalable processors using Intel optimization libraries and how they have been able to see great performance increases due to using those optimizations.

To learn more, visit:
oneclick.ai

Or:
builders.intel.com/ai/membership/oneclickai

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In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Alex Quach, General Manager of Intel’s Wireline and Core Network Division, joins Chip Chat to talk about his team’s efforts to drive new levels of network performance to support advanced edge use cases and the continued evolution of 5G services.

With early 5G deployments supported by existing LTE networks, many communication service providers (CommSPs) have been focused on transformation of the radio access networks to roll out new devices and enhanced mobile broadband services. In order to deliver on 5G’s promise of ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC), CommSPs are extending user plane virtualization from the core networks to the near-edge, far-edge and on-premise edge.

A next generation central office (NGCO) moves virtualization solutions one step towards the customer from the core. CommSPs are retooling thousands of COs to support 5G user plane function, wireline access and support services, such as content delivery networks, cloud gaming and augmented reality (AR), with lots of headroom for growth.

Quach detailed work with companies like Alibaba, Cisco, Ericsson, Nokia, Rakuten, RedHat, Tencent and others to drive user plane virtualization across the near-edge, far-edge and on-premises edge and explained how FPGAs, new storage capabilities and AI building blocks complement compute and network capabilities to support a variety of virtualized network functions (VNFs) and new services. He described multi-access edge computing (MEC) as a super set of all edge computing that supports a wide variety of use case and deployments particularly in the far-edge.

Learn more about Intel’s work in network transformation, 5G and edge computing at:
networkbuilders.intel.com

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Intel Chip Chat – Network Insights audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Visual Cloud Services require a scalable architecture, services innovation platform and strong ecosystem collaborations across cloud, network, edge and enterprise. At IBC 2019, Intel brings the industry together for the first Visual Cloud conference in order to address the transformation in business today which demands computing and processing capabilities in order to move faster, store more and process everything.

Lynn Comp, Vice President of Intel’s Data Center Group and GM of Visual Cloud, joins Intel Chip Chat Network Insights to explore the explosive growth in the industry and emerging platform requirements which demand an end-to-end view of the infrastructure across Cloud, Network, Edge, and Enterprise. Visual cloud at the foundation is cloud architected visual experiences and services that are delivered across a network. For consumers of media experiences, there’s a wide range of quality expectations and delivery to these new user expectations requires the content be processed in the cloud and consumed remotely with an advanced low latency network. Lynn describes one of the highlights at the Visual Cloud conference: First ever Live Streaming Conference in 8K, 360 VR Experience, a commercially ready, end to end solution deployment.

Additionally, there will be new partners announcing Intel Select Solutions for Visual Cloud Delivery Networks featuring two end-user adoptions and a new wave of ecosystem partners delivering these solutions to customers.

For more information visit:
intel.com/visualcloud

To connect with Lynn Comp, follow her on twitter:
twitter.com/comp_lynn

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Physician, scientist, patient, advocate: Glenn Pierce inhabits all four roles, and seems the physical embodiment of the translational impulse, driven by his own experiences coping with severe hemophilia to advance the science – and the policy – he hopes will eventually cure this condition for patients across the globe.

While other kids enjoyed carefree childhoods, Glenn spent much of his early years in the hospital, recovering from bleeding episodes associated with the hemophilia A with which he was born. From this experience was born a passion to cure hemophilia, a commitment he memorialized in writing when he was ten, during one of the many hospital stays.

Glenn, a native of Cleveland, attended college at Case Western, and stayed at Case for his MD/PhD, then went to Washington University in St. Louis for additional training in laboratory medicine and hematology, though he explicitly steered clear of hemophilia professionally, thinking at the time this might be uncomfortably close to home; on the side, however, he volunteered for hemophilia organizations, and became increasingly involved with the community.

After a series of industry roles with increasing responsibility, Glenn decided he wanted to unite his personal and professional passions, and started to work at the interface, leveraging his deep personal commitment and an increasingly large team of experts; in a sense, he became a hemophilia entrepreneur, working with his selected colleagues to drive the science forward in a range of companies that would include Bayer and Biogen.

Today, Glenn drives innovation as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Third Rock Ventures, where he’s foundationally involved with companies such as the liver-focused Ambys Medicines (note: David’s firm, TVI, is an investor). He is also actively involved with the World Federation of Hemophilia, as he seeks to improve the lives of patients with hemophilia around the globe.

We are delighted to welcome Glenn to Tech Tonics!

Today’s episode is sponsored by Manatt Health—a multi-disciplinary professional services firm that integrates a full service law firm and a broad-based strategic business and policy consulting practice to help its clients grow and prosper. Manatt Health supports the full range of stakeholders in transforming America’s healthcare system.

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As a professional ballplayer, he became fascinated with the power of team chemistry. His next career in business showed him that team chemistry was confined to sports. “At my very first job I realized, ‘Oh, that’s not a sports thing…that’s a human thing,” said Mike Robbins. In his series of books, Robbins explores what leaders can do to foster that magic of good chemistry. This segment is from a talk he gave to a group of CIOs and technology leaders gathered at the Nutanix .NEXT event in Anaheim, Calif., where he shared insights into what makes great teams work.

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