Hanan Youssef, Senior Product Leader at Google Cloud Platform (GCP), joins host Jake Smith to talk about how General Purpose N2 virtual machine (VM) customers will be able to automatically upgrade to the 3rd Generation Intel\xae Xeon Scalable processors and immediately see the benefits for their workloads. Hanan talks about her experience with Google Compute Engine and how customers use N2 to build social media apps, run ecommerce, and to power the latest online games at great price-performance. Hanan also talks about the near decade of collaboration between Intel and Google Cloud and how the two companies have developed performance improvements and optimizations for various customer needs, such as SAP HANA and high performance computing (HPC).\n\nFor more information about 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, visit: https://intel.com/xeonscalable\n\nFollow Hanan on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/hsyousef\nFollow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel