Conversations With Dez - with Lisa Spelman, VP & GM Xeon Products & Data Center Marketing, Intel

Published: June 18, 2020, 6:44 p.m.

b'I caught up with Lisa Spelman, Vice President and General Manager of Intel Xeon Products and Data Centre Marketing at Intel Corp. to talk about her her role at Intel, current trends and the latest product announcements from Intel.\\n\\nLisa is corporate vice president in the Data Platforms Group and general manager of the Xeon and Memory Group at Intel Corporation. She leads the end-to-end product planning, management, support, marketing and roadmap ownership of Intel\\xae Xeon\\xae processors.\\n\\nShe also leads those same functions and the engineering for Intel\\xae Optane\\u2122 Persistent Memory. Additionally, her organisation\\u2019s responsibilities span strategy and technology across our Xeon platforms.\\n\\nIn this show we talk about:\\n\\n- Updates from Intel\\u2019s response and investments related to COVID-19\\n- Intel\\u2019s latest news from the Data Platform Group\\n- Accelerating Analytics, the journey from the Core to Cloud and the Edge\\n- Solutions, Software & Customer insights\\n- And what\\u2019s look into AI and Analytics in the next decade\\n\\n\\nWe talk about Intel\\u2019s response to this global pandemic outside the business, from financial contributions to community projects, staff lead initiatives, through to opening up your portfolio of intellectual property to researchers in the battle against COVID-19.\\n\\nWe discuss a range of the data-centric infrastructure and the investments Intel is making to help customers overcome the fundamental challenge and opportunity that data represents, and why is it important for enterprises to think about their data strategies from cloud to the edge.\\n\\nLisa introduces us to Intel\\u2019s newly announced 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable processors, and how it has benefitted from a pedigree spanning a couple of decades as well as leading the market, and how Intel is building on-chip features we\\u2019ve historically had to add to server platforms to enable AI functionality, in particular Machine Learning.\\n\\nWe also delve into how Intel\\u2019s 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable have been tailored to address today\\u2019s demanding analytics and AI workloads, and how Intel has fortified their 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable processor instruction set to fundamentally accelerate AI workloads.\\n\\nAlso discussed is how the AI market requires many different solutions, and that FPGAs are another ingredient which makes sense depending on where you are on your AI journey, for those who ready to accelerate their workloads, but require flexibility to adapt to changing models, FPGAs are an excellent choice.\\n\\nWe discuss a number of key trends and topics around Edge Computing, and why the edge is demanding more and more compute closer to where data is being created and consumed, driving a new wave of multifunction, compute hungry devices. Some key points included challenges to:\\n\\n- Reduce application latency\\n- Improve quality of experience\\n- Optimise total cost of ownership\\n- Comply with data locality requirements\\n\\n\\nLisa also speaks about how their strategy is to enable the broadest ecosystem in the industry by giving developers a wide variety of tools, languages and frameworks on which to build, for the likes of both open source programs like Linux and Apache Spark, ISV-delivered software like Oracle or SAP, and direct customer enabling as they do with cloud providers like Microsoft or Alibaba - for example Intel has thousands of engineers working across the ecosystem to equip, train and enable developers to optimise solutions on our hardware.\\n\\nWe close with me asking Lisa what do she thinks is coming over the horizon for AI & Analytics over the next decade and what should key business and technology decision makes be talking about now to prepare for tomorrow?\\n\\nTune in now for all of these amazing topics and more.\\n\\nThis podcast was made in partnership with Intel.\\n\\nFor more information please visit:\\n\\n- Intel Atom\\xae P processors: https://intel.ly/3aNHDqS \\n- Intel\\xae Xeon\\xae Scalable processors: https://intel.ly/2wNTV3Q \\n- 5G Technology Overview: https://intel.ly/39NfMHb\\n\\n\\n#sponsored #intelinfluencer\\n.'