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Cloud Technologies Speeding Organ Transplant System
September 24, 2021 22:44If a child, family member or friend was in an accident tomorrow or had an organ failure, there’s a good chance United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) can help find a donor with the necessary attributes. Donated organs are managed nationally by UNOS. Their system for finding and tracking available donor organs and matching them […]
The Future of Robotic Process Automation – Conversation in the Cloud – Episode 257
September 24, 2021 05:46In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Soundar Rajan from Perpetuuiti Technosoft Services joins host Jake Smith to talk about software automation solutions for IT and business operations. Soundar goes into detail about Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with the company’s Av3ar platform—a human-like AI+RPA platform of intelligent BoTs (or iBoTs) which can absorb, […]
The Future of Robotic Process Automation – Conversation in the Cloud – Episode 257
September 24, 2021 05:46In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Soundar Rajan from Perpetuuiti Technosoft Services joins host Jake Smith to talk about software automation solutions for IT and business operations. Soundar goes into detail about Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with the company’s Av3ar platform—a human-like AI+RPA platform of intelligent BoTs (or iBoTs) which can absorb, […]
Pandemic Update with Award Winning Science Writer Apoorva Mandavilli
September 20, 2021 10:00The day the WHO declared a global pandemic. The roll-out of the first vaccines. The rise of the Delta variant. The announcement of vaccine mandates. For all these moments and everything in between, Apoorva Mandavilli has been tirelessly reporting on the pandemic. Her meticulously researched journalism has kept us informed about the most pressing issues […]
IT@Intel: Push-button Productization of AI Models
September 17, 2021 08:03 application/pdfIT Best Practices: Intel IT has a large AI group that works across Intel to transform critical work, optimize processes, eliminate scalability bottlenecks and generate significant business value (more than USD 1.5B return on investment in 2020). Our efforts unlock the power of data to make Intel’s business processes smarter, faster and more innovative, from […]
Challenges and Opportunities in Open RAN – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 256
September 09, 2021 09:52In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Neil Coleman from Amdocs joins host Jake Smith to talk about why it’s critical for communication service providers to move to Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN). Neil addresses some of the adoption concerns and why companies are looking to prioritize products over projects. He goes […]
Challenges and Opportunities in Open RAN – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 256
September 09, 2021 09:52In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Neil Coleman from Amdocs joins host Jake Smith to talk about why it’s critical for communication service providers to move to Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN). Neil addresses some of the adoption concerns and why companies are looking to prioritize products over projects. He goes […]
IT@Intel: Green Computing at Scale
September 09, 2021 00:26 application/pdfIT Best Practices: Intel’s innovative disaggregated server architecture and data center facilities design and operation reduce e-waste and increase energy efficiency—helping to protect the environment and produce significant cost savings. Do what’s right for the business and what’s right for the environment. That is the dual goal behind many of Intel IT’s data center transformation […]
The Rise of Volumetric of Data – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 254
September 06, 2021 22:16In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Paul Magdalena, Didier Marcon, and Pascale Martinez from Atos along with Goutam Debnath from Numascale join host Jake Smith to talk about their recently published white paper “Rise of Volumetric Data and Scale-Up Enterprise Computing.” The guests and Jake discuss the rise of volumetric data and […]
The Rise of Volumetric of Data – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 254
September 06, 2021 22:16In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Paul Magdalena, Didier Marcon, and Pascale Martinez from Atos along with Goutam Debnath from Numascale join host Jake Smith to talk about their recently published white paper “Rise of Volumetric Data and Scale-Up Enterprise Computing.” The guests and Jake discuss the rise of volumetric data and […]
Creating a Constituency for Efficiency in Health Care
September 03, 2021 00:14While most of us would agree that the U.S. health care system isn’t efficient, the path forward to decreasing costs while maintaining quality often seems overwhelming. So where do we begin? And how can we create a “constituency for efficiency” to drive meaningful improvement? On this episode of the Business Group on Health Podcast, we […]
Eliminating Downtime and Data Loss – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 255
September 02, 2021 07:15In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: ZeroDown Software’s Alan Gin and Keith Fukuhara join host Jake Smith to talk about the evolution of recovery time over the last twenty years. The three discuss how several advancements culminated in the creation of the Ultra High Availability solution, eliminating downtime and data loss. Alan […]
Eliminating Downtime and Data Loss – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 255
September 02, 2021 07:15In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: ZeroDown Software’s Alan Gin and Keith Fukuhara join host Jake Smith to talk about the evolution of recovery time over the last twenty years. The three discuss how several advancements culminated in the creation of the Ultra High Availability solution, eliminating downtime and data loss. Alan […]
Moving Forward with Empathy: Messaging to the Unvaccinated
August 20, 2021 07:40For decades, the Ad Council has brought together the advertising industry to serve the social good through public service engagement; today, they’re providing critical information to Americans across the country about the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on building vaccine confidence among the unvaccinated. In this episode of the Business Group on Health podcast, […]
The Future of VR and Sports – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 253
August 12, 2021 08:52In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: BT Sport’s Jamie Hindhaugh and Tiledmedia’s Rob Koenen join host Jake Smith to talk about delivering 8K virtual reality (VR) with 360° views to sports fans on mobile devices. Jamie and Rob go into detail about the bit rates, hardware decoders, software, compute power and other […]
The Future of VR and Sports – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 253
August 12, 2021 08:52In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: BT Sport’s Jamie Hindhaugh and Tiledmedia’s Rob Koenen join host Jake Smith to talk about delivering 8K virtual reality (VR) with 360° views to sports fans on mobile devices. Jamie and Rob go into detail about the bit rates, hardware decoders, software, compute power and other […]
Behind the Massive Scale Required for Content Recommendation – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 252
August 06, 2021 08:11In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Taboola’s Ariel Pisetzky joins host Jake Smith to talk about using artificial intelligence (AI) for personalized content recommendations at massive scale, reaching up to 4 billion web pages a day. Ariel discusses why Taboola runs their services on their own on-prem infrastructure of over 10,000 servers […]
Behind the Massive Scale Required for Content Recommendation – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 252
August 06, 2021 08:11In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Taboola’s Ariel Pisetzky joins host Jake Smith to talk about using artificial intelligence (AI) for personalized content recommendations at massive scale, reaching up to 4 billion web pages a day. Ariel discusses why Taboola runs their services on their own on-prem infrastructure of over 10,000 servers […]
The Verdict is In: The Pandemic Has Accelerated the Future
July 30, 2021 08:15In July 2020, we spoke with Professor Mauro Guillén, author of 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything, on the global factors influencing the next decade and the role of COVID-19 as an accelerant of this new reality. A year later, we check in with Dr. Guillen about the […]
Nia DocAI Unlocks Business Value by Optimizing Document Processing Pipelines – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 251
July 29, 2021 07:26Nakul Arora from EdgeVerve (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infosys Ltd.) joins host Jake Smith to talk about the role AI is playing in transforming the way enterprises unlock business insights from their corpus of documents. Nakul discusses the critical role that a symphony between the software and hardware layers plays in order to deliver an […]
Nia DocAI Unlocks Business Value by Optimizing Document Processing Pipelines – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 251
July 29, 2021 07:26Nakul Arora from EdgeVerve (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infosys Ltd.) joins host Jake Smith to talk about the role AI is playing in transforming the way enterprises unlock business insights from their corpus of documents. Nakul discusses the critical role that a symphony between the software and hardware layers plays in order to deliver an […]
Restaurants Order More Tech to Survive COVID-19 Pandemic
July 27, 2021 08:57Restaurant owners and experts explain how the industry responded to the COVID-19 lockdown with technologies that keep them connected to customers. Two sisters, Shanny Covey and Deborah Mok, tell how they evolved their central California coast restaurants through the pandemic. Find more enterprise cloud news, features stories and profiles at The Forecast. Transcript: Perry Quinn: […]
A Big Step Forward: Moving Ginkgo to oneAPI
July 23, 2021 07:29Ginkgo is a production-ready, sparse linear algebra library used for HPC on GPU architectures. It’s now using oneAPI cross-architecture programming to support its foundational design with a high level of performance portability, and focus on software sustainability. ExpertsHartwig Anzt at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Univ. of Tennessee, and Terry Cojean of KIT provide […]
Experimenting with AI Optimizations – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 250
July 22, 2021 08:42In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: SigOpt cofounder and CEO Scott Clark joins host Jake Smith to discuss his company’s recent acquisition by Intel, how this acquisition accelerates their ability to meet their mission to empower AI engineers, and the latest innovation in the SigOpt intelligent experimentation platform that enables faster design, […]
Experimenting with AI Optimizations – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 250
July 22, 2021 08:42In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: SigOpt cofounder and CEO Scott Clark joins host Jake Smith to discuss his company’s recent acquisition by Intel, how this acquisition accelerates their ability to meet their mission to empower AI engineers, and the latest innovation in the SigOpt intelligent experimentation platform that enables faster design, […]
SciVis Unveils a Billion Cells, Covid-19 & Invisible Monsters
July 19, 2021 08:02Scientific visualization (SciVis) is providing new insights in health care and many other research areas in ways that we couldn’t imagine a decade ago. It’s an evolving field where extracting visualizations from very large data sets can improve analysis, diagnosis and patient outcomes while reducing costs – or even uncover hidden discrimination. Hear from Teodora […]
SciVis Unveils a Billion Cells, Covid-19 & Invisible Monsters
July 19, 2021 08:02Scientific visualization (SciVis) is providing new insights in health care and many other research areas in ways that we couldn’t imagine a decade ago. It’s an evolving field where extracting visualizations from very large data sets can improve analysis, diagnosis and patient outcomes while reducing costs – or even uncover hidden discrimination. Hear from Teodora […]
Where Do We Go From Here? Reflections on the COVID-19 Response from a White House Insider
July 16, 2021 23:03The rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. has downgraded the coronavirus pandemic from an existential threat to a manageable challenge, according to Andy Slavitt, former Senior Advisor for COVID Response in the Biden Administration. But despite the great strides we’ve made as a country, there’s still more work to be done. In this episode […]
How Natural Language Processing is Used in Health Care – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 249
July 15, 2021 09:00David Talby, CTO of John Snow Labs, joins host Jake Smith to talk about how natural language processing (NLP) is used in health care. David discusses how NLP is used for clinical decision support and trial acceleration. David goes into detail about how the company was able to increase performance using Intel processors and speaks […]
How Natural Language Processing is Used in Health Care – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 249
July 15, 2021 09:00David Talby, CTO of John Snow Labs, joins host Jake Smith to talk about how natural language processing (NLP) is used in health care. David discusses how NLP is used for clinical decision support and trial acceleration. David goes into detail about how the company was able to increase performance using Intel processors and speaks […]
Preserving Business Continuity During a Pandemic – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 248
July 08, 2021 21:08SHI’s Tim Henning joins host Jake Smith to talk about how IT leaders were able quickly deploy virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) via public cloud offerings to preserve business continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tim explains why Stratascale introduced the Intel Select Solution for VDI to address enterprise needs for scalability and security and goes into […]
Preserving Business Continuity During a Pandemic – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 248
July 08, 2021 21:08SHI’s Tim Henning joins host Jake Smith to talk about how IT leaders were able quickly deploy virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) via public cloud offerings to preserve business continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tim explains why Stratascale introduced the Intel Select Solution for VDI to address enterprise needs for scalability and security and goes into […]
10 Essential Steps to Hybrid Multicloud IT
July 08, 2021 20:54In this special full-length Tech Barometer segment, Nutanix CIO Wendy M. Pfeiffer shares lessons learned from leading a significant shift to next-generation cloud technologies. Her team transformed IT operations by fusing hybrid multicloud capabilities, including hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), with automation powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. Below are individual podcast segments for each of […]
IT@Intel: Fuel Cells – An Alternative Energy Source for Intel’s Data Centers
July 08, 2021 20:16 application/pdfIT Best Practices: In several proofs of concept, fuel cell technology has proved to be a reliable, stable, efficient and sustainable source of electricity for Intel’s data centers. Intel IT joined forces with Intel’s Corporate Services and Global Supply Chain groups to enable fuel cells to meet Intel’s redundancy and capacity expectations. For some of […]
Business Group on Health: Can Incentives Help Us Reach our Vaccine Goals?
July 03, 2021 01:15Entities across the U.S. are pulling out all the stops to urge people to get the COVID-19 vaccine, from entries into multi-million-dollar lotteries, to free college tuition, to giveaways galore. On this episode of the Business Group on Health Podcast, we speak with behavioral economist, Dr. Kevin Volpp, on key design choices and tradeoffs among […]
ZIB’s oneAPI Story: Discovering Portability across Multi-vendor Hardware
July 02, 2021 04:50Heterogeneous programming is challenging for developers because it’s been difficult to code or forces compromises in performance. oneAPI is working to break that mold. Many HPC research centers, enterprises and developers are now adopting oneAPI. Hear from experts at Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) on their oneAPI story: “We want to have most code portability across […]
ZIB’s oneAPI Story: Discovering Portability across Multi-vendor Hardware
July 02, 2021 04:50Heterogeneous programming is challenging for developers because it’s been difficult to code or forces compromises in performance. oneAPI is working to break that mold. Many HPC research centers, enterprises and developers are now adopting oneAPI. Hear from experts at Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) on their oneAPI story: “We want to have most code portability across […]
Intel’s Approach to Security – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 247
June 29, 2021 23:51Intel’s Tom Garrison and Camille Morhardt join host Jake Smith in a special episode to talk about today’s security landscape. The three discuss Intel’s approach to security from hardware to software, finding vulnerabilities, and engineering mitigations. They also talk about emerging areas, such as AI, blockchain, IoT and edge devices, and more. Tom and Camille […]
Intel’s Approach to Security – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 247
June 29, 2021 23:51Intel’s Tom Garrison and Camille Morhardt join host Jake Smith in a special episode to talk about today’s security landscape. The three discuss Intel’s approach to security from hardware to software, finding vulnerabilities, and engineering mitigations. They also talk about emerging areas, such as AI, blockchain, IoT and edge devices, and more. Tom and Camille […]
Business Decisions Are Driving Cloud Technologies
June 29, 2021 23:38New innovations can quickly become IT sweethearts, but what’s best for the business remains the overriding factor for deployment. The emergence of cloud native was born from developers needing to flexibly deploy resources and reconfigure them as needed. “That’s why we invented containers,” said Steve McDowell, senior analyst of data and storage at Moor Insights […]
Building Cross-architecture, Cross-vendor Tools for HPC Application Developers
June 29, 2021 23:24Just as a carpenter needs tools to build a house, a developer needs tools to write code and programs. This often means relying on other coders to develop tools and building on that foundation. Xiaozhu Meng, a research scientist at Rice University shares the progress of the HPC Toolkit Project. It’s focused on performance tuning […]
Unlocking Faster Data-Driven Analytics – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 246
June 22, 2021 08:15Ahana cofounder and CEO Steven Mih joins host Jake Smith to talk about why he started Ahana, which centers around open source data tools. Steven discusses how Presto—an open source distributed SQL query engine—was originally developed by Facebook and then donated to the Linux Foundation. Jake and Steven note how only 10-12% of data has […]
Rajiv Ramaswami — Ripple Effect of Infrastructure Innovation
June 21, 2021 09:34In the real world, infrastructure is railroads, highways and power grids. In the digital world, infrastructure is servers, networks and data centers. Rajiv Ramaswami is a man of both worlds. He grew up on India’s national railway system, which employed his father and mother. As a graduate researcher, he envisioned optical networking tools for the […]
The Power of Purpose-Driven Companies
June 18, 2021 08:51Purpose-driven companies aren’t just important, they’re also a growing trend, says Bill Novelli, author of Good Business: The Talk, Fight, Win Way to Change the World. And in order to compete for talent and succeed in the world today, businesses must connect with employee and consumer values and interests. But how do companies know what […]
SUSE Flattens the Cloud Native Learning Curve with Udacity Courses
June 17, 2021 09:11IT leaders are hungry for cloud native technologies but struggle to find expertise because Cloud Native is nascent. SUSE and Udacity team up to feed the need by creating courses to train the next wave of engineers. In this Cloud Coverage segment by The Forecast, meet Sarah Whitlock, the global head of the SUSE and […]
Advancing Bioinformatics with Modern Hardware, HPC Compute + Software
June 14, 2021 08:41Bioinformatics is advancing health-care research by using computation to understand biological data. It’s useful for large complex data sets used in determining gene and protein functions, establishing evolutionary relationships, and predicting 3D shapes of proteins. Two experts, Sergio Santander-Jimenez at University of Extremadura, and Ricardo Nobre of INESC-ID, are combining the power of modern hardware […]
Accelerating Our Future: 2020-2021 Intel IT Annual Performance Report
June 11, 2021 07:54 application/pdfAs one of the world’s largest semiconductor chip makers, Intel’s vision is to be the performance leader that unleashes the potential of data. In this era of rapid change and distributed intelligence, we see artificial intelligence (AI), 5G network transformation and the intelligent, autonomous edge as the fastest growing opportunities for Intel and our customers. […]
Using AI to Forecast Fashion in India – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 245
June 10, 2021 08:40In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Sharath Puranik, Director of Product & Engineering at Stylumia, talks with host Jake Smith about how Stylumia leverages machine learning to improve product assortments, optimize inventory management, and offer a consumer-driven forecast to reduce waste in the fashion and lifestyle industry. Sharath explains why Stylumia became […]
Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists & Coders
June 08, 2021 09:30The next generation of scientists and coders need more than a love of science and technology. The use of supercomputers in digital design to simulation pose opportunities solving the world’s biggest questions. Katherine Riley, director of science for Argonne’s Leadership Computing Facility, and Joe Curley, Intel senior director of oneAPI products, solutions and ecosystem, share […]
An Inside Look at Lincoln Financial Group’s Commitment to Equity and Engagement
June 04, 2021 01:46Already a best employer for women, diversity and disability inclusion, Lincoln Financial Group has doubled down on its commitment to racial equity and engagement over the past year. Using a combination of employee feedback, Board and leadership-driven action items, and external partnerships, the Fortune 200 company is actively shaping and shifting its culture to deliver […]