Utilizing Tech Season 6 - Utilizing AI
138 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis is Utilizing Tech, the podcast about emerging Technology from Gestalt IT hosted by Stephen Foskett, Organizer of the Tech Field Day event series, part of The Futurum Group. In Season 6, we are returning to the topic of artificial intelligence where we will explore the practical applications and impact AI on technological innovations in enterprise IT.
Season 6: Utilizing AI
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06x12: Reflecting on a Half-Year of AI Innovation
May 06, 2024 13:00 - 44 minutes - 50.4 MBWe knew that 2024 would be the year of AI right from the start, but this season of the podcast has seen incredible development and change. This final episode of Utilizing Tech Season 6 features hosts Frederic Van Haren, Allyson Klein, and Stephen Foskett discussing the current state of AI infrastructure half-way through 2024. In addition to AI Field Day, we experienced NVIDIA GTC and numerous product introductions over the last few months. It's truly an ecosystem play now, with every company...
06x11: Considering the Promise of Quantum Computing in AI with Dr Bob Sutor of The Futurum Group
April 29, 2024 13:00 - 37 minutes - 34.9 MBBoth AI and quantum computing seemed entirely theoretical just a few years ago, yet generative AI is everywhere today. This episode of Utilizing Tech considers the promise of quantum computing generally and the applicability of this technology in AI with Dr. Bob Sutor of The Futurum Group, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett. One big challenge for quantum computing is the difficulty of storing data for calculations, a severe limitation for using the technology in AI. But there is the possibi...
06x10: Using AI in Modern Applications with Matthew Wallace
April 22, 2024 13:00 - 29 minutes - 33.4 MBAs we consider the impact of AI on modern applications, we should consider the ways that this technology will improve these products. This episode of Utilizing Tech brings Matthew Wallace, CTO of Kamiwaza AI, to discuss the adoption of AI in application development with Allyson Klein and Stephen Foskett. Large SaaS providers were the first to add AI-powered features but this technology is rapidly coming to market across the spectrum of applications. Matthew likens this to the evolution from ...
06x09: Modern Application Development Using AI with Paul Nashawaty of The Futurum Group
April 15, 2024 13:00 - 31 minutes - 36.6 MBAI is accelerating application development and modernization in many ways, but developers are just ramping up their use of the technology. This episode of Utilizing Tech includes Paul Nashawaty, who focuses on application development at The Futurum Group, discussing this topic with Allyson Klein and Stephen Foskett. Use cases for AI include documentation, chatbots, data integration, programming co-pilots, and more. Regardless of how AI is used, organizations must accept that they are ultimat...
06x08: Operationalizing AI with VAST Data
April 08, 2024 13:00 - 37 minutes - 42.7 MBWe are at a turning point, as AI has matured from theoretical experimentation to practical application. In this episode of Utilizing Tech, Neeloy Bhattacharyya joins Allyson Klein and Stephen Foskett to discuss how VAST Data's customers and partners are making practical use of AI. Data is the key to successful AI-powered applications, and VAST Data supports both unstructured and structured data sets. Neeloy emphasizes the interactive nature of AI application development and the flexibility r...
06x07: Evolving Connectivity for AI Applications with Ultra Ethernet with J Metz
April 01, 2024 13:00 - 34 minutes - 39.6 MBUltra Ethernet promises to tune Ethernet for the needs of specialized workloads, including HPC and AI, from the lowest hardware to the software stack. This episode of Utilizing Tech features Dr. J Metz, Steering Committee Chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, discussing this new technology with Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett. The process of tuning Ethernet begins with a study of the profile and workloads to be served to identify the characteristics needed to support it. The group f...
06x06: AI Is My Co Pilot with Chris Grundemann
March 25, 2024 13:00 - 35 minutes - 40.3 MBEveryone uses AI today, whether they know it or not, and it's critical for users of this technology to understand its capability and limitations. This episode of Utilizing Tech features Chris Grundemann, a fellow podcast host and Tech Field Day delegate, talking the many ways we use AI every day. Like Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett, Chris uses AI to assist with content creation in many ways, from summarization and organization of data to image generation. Content creators are using A...
06x05: Great AI Needs Great Storage with Ace Stryker of Solidigm
March 18, 2024 13:00 - 37 minutes - 42.7 MBMany people involved in artificial intelligence don't spend much time considering storage infrastructure. That's the topic of this episode of Utilizing AI, which features Ace Stryker of Solidigm discussing the role of flash storage in AI infrastructure with Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett. Considering the cost of GPUs and the rest of the AI stack, idle time is the enemy. That's why it's critical to have a low-latency storage layer to support tasks like training. Hosts: Stephen Foske...
06x04: Keeping Your GPUs Fed with a Data Pipeline from Hammerspace with Molly Presley
March 11, 2024 13:00 - 34 minutes - 39.1 MBAI training is a uniquely data-hungry application, and it requires a special data pipeline to keep expensive GPUs fed. This episode of Utilizing Tech focuses on the data platform for machine learning, featuring Molly Pressley of Hammerspace along with Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett. Nothing is worse than idle hardware, especially when it comes to expensive GPUs intended for ML training. Performance is important, but parallel access and access to multiple systems is just as important....
06x03: AI PCs, Renewed Focus on AI Safety, and More with David Kanter of MLCommons
March 04, 2024 14:00 - 28 minutes - 32.6 MBAI is powering breakthroughs across all domains. In this episode of Utilizing AI Podcast brought to you by Tech Field Day, part of The Futurum Group, David Kanter, Founder and Executive Director of MLCommons, joins hosts, Stephen Foskett and Frederic Van Haren, to talk about MLCommons’ role in driving valuable AI solutions, and helping organizations overcome the challenges around AI safety. MLCommons’ set of benchmarks provides transparent ratings and reviews of a wide range of products guid...
06x02: Private AI is a Reality with Chris Wolf of VMware by Broadcom
February 26, 2024 14:00 - 31 minutes - 36 MBAI is all about data, so it is no surprise that enterprises are deploying their own private AI inside the firewall. This episode of Utilizing Tech brings Chris Wolf, Global Head of AI and Advanced Services at VMware by Broadcom, to discuss private AI with Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett. Companies looking to deploy AI are finding that it doesn't require nearly as much hardware as expected, software is widely available, and are reluctant to trust sensitive data to a service provider. V...
06x01: The Bedrock of AI is Data with Nick Magnuson and Clive Bearman of Qlik
February 19, 2024 14:00 - 41 minutes - 47.5 MBData is the foundation on which AI models are built, and integration of enterprise data will be the key to generative AI applications. This episode of Utilizing Tech brings Nick Magnuson and Clive Bearman from Qlik to discuss the integration of data and AI with Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett. Enterprises sometimes worry that their data will never be ready for AI or that they will feed models with too much low-quality data, and overcoming this issue is one of the first hurdles. Anothe...
06x00: Looking Forward to the Year of AI with Frederic Van Haren and Mark Beccue
February 12, 2024 13:00 - 34 minutes - 39.2 MBIn the two years since we focused on AI on this podcast, OpenAI added a simple conversational interface to their deep-learning model and AI has exploded on society. This season of Utilizing Tech focuses on practical applications for artificial intelligence and features co-hosts Frederic Van Haren and Mark Beccue along with Stephen Foskett. In this episode we return to AI with a look back at the incredible impact that generative AI has had on society. Humans traditionally interfaced with mach...
05x22: Edge Innovation is Coming from All Directions
October 02, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes - 42.1 MBAs we've discussed all season on Utilizing Edge, innovation is coming from all directions, including hardware, software, and applications. This special crossover episode of the On-Premise IT and Utilizing Tech podcasts features Edge Field Day delegates Brian Knudtson, Ned Bellavance, and Jody Lemoine discussing their perspectives about edge innovation with Stephen Foskett. The primary drivers at the edge are integration, efficiency, and connectivity, as well as the unique needs of the applic...
05x21: The New Direction of Hardware Led by Edge Computing
September 25, 2023 15:07 - 35 minutes - 40.8 MBEdge is leading the hardware industry into a new era of innovation. In this episode of Utilizing Tech, Stephen Foskett, and co-hosts, Allyson Klein and Alistair Cooke, sit down to dissect this. In the wake of Intel’s discontinuation of its NUC product line, a question that is in everyone’s mind is, what’s next. Intel, and many behemoths like it, have a proud legacy of knowing how to break a stalemate and preserve the churn, and even if that means stepping up and pulling the plug on an old pr...
05x20: Personal and Mobile Devices at the Edge with Mark Houtz and Jim Czuprynski
September 18, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes - 41.6 MBPersonal devices are increasingly being used across enterprise IT, from smartphones to wearable devices, and these are becoming the true edge. This episode of Utilizing Edge brings Field Day delegates Mark Houtz and Jim Czuprynski together with Stephen Foskett to discuss the personal side of the edge. Mobile Device Management (MDM) has been used to manage smartphones and similar technology is used for personal computers, but it seems inevitable that there will be a mixing of business and pri...
05x19: The Intersection of Edge, Blockchain, and IoT with Jason Benedicic
September 11, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes - 38.9 MBAlthough blockchain technology has been tainted by scammers, the core idea of distributed consensus is relevant for certain edge applications. This episode of Utilizing Edge focuses on practical application of blockchain technology in edge and IoT, featuring Jason Benedicic, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett. Two key concepts in blockchain are the distributed ledger and consensus approach. There is a lot of work being done to apply blockchain in medical, finance, IoT, and proof of provenan...
05x18: Orchestration and Connectivity at the Edge
September 04, 2023 04:00 - 38 minutes - 43.6 MBComputing and sensors have been deployed at the edge for decades, and this is certainly true in the agriculture sector. This episode of Utilizing Edge features Edge Field Day delegates Ben Young and Alastair Cooke discussing with Stephen Foskett the evolution of connectivity and orchestration at the edge. Governmental policies can have a huge impact on the deployment of technology, from connectivity to environmental regulations, as has the emergence of inexpensive sensors, batteries, and pro...
05x17: Considering the Many Faces of Edge Following VMware Explore with Roy Chua and Brian Knudtson
August 28, 2023 13:45 - 36 minutes - 41.4 MBVMware Explore 2023 featured a broad set of products and technologies, all of which could be included under the banner of edge. This episode of Utilizing Edge considers this dynamic and varied world with Roy Chua and Brian Knudtson, along with host Stephen Foskett. Virtualization, networking, storage, and orchestration are all key edge technologies, and VMware and its partners are deeply involved in bringing these technologies to the edge. VMware announced Edge Cloud Orchestrator, new securi...
05x16: The Convergence and Standardization of IT and OT with Andy Foster of IOTech
August 21, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes - 38.2 MBIndustrial control and operational technology systems face the same forces as IT applications and are rapidly being integrated into comprehensive edge infrastructure. This episode of Utilizing Edge brings Andy Foster of IOTech to discuss standardization of industrial IoT with Allyson Klein and Stephen Foskett. There are many more similarities between industrial control systems and information technology systems than many people realize. Both are impacted by standards in commodity hardware, n...
05x15: Addressing Data Challenges in Media and Entertainment with Jimmy Fusil of Tsecond
August 07, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes - 41.7 MBMedia and entertainment is one industry generating and moving vast amounts of data at the edge. This episode of Utilizing Edge brings Jimmy Fusil of Tsecond into a discussion with Alastair Cooke and Stephen Foskett about the unique data challenges in media and entertainment. There is a great need for local processing, secure data transport, and efficient storage utilization in managing the ever-increasing volume of data generated during film and TV production. The podcast explores the contin...
05x14. Considering the Diversity of Edge Solutions with Brian Chambers and Alastair Cooke
July 31, 2023 11:00 - 43 minutes - 80.7 MBEdge computing comes in many forms and brings many challenges, including bandwidth limitations, network reliability issues, and limited space. This episode of Utilizing Edge brings Brian Chambers, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett together to discuss the state of the edge in 2023. Industries like retail, multi-tenant environments, and industrial IoT find practical applications, but defining the edge remains an ongoing exploration. Implementation varies, from repurposing existing technologi...
05x13. Dark Data at the Edge
July 24, 2023 12:58 - 30 minutes - 34.4 MBIn this episode of the Utilizing Tech podcast, Stephen Foskett, Alison Klein, and Gina Rosenthal discuss dark data in edge computing. Dark data is unutilized or unknown data collected by organizations. The distributed nature and use of third-party apps can make it challenging to handle dark data, limiting insights and posing security risks. Establishing a stronger IT-business connection is crucial. Observability solutions and data analytics can aid in discovering and centralizing dark data. ...
05x12: Hardware Beyond the NUC with Julian Chesterfield of Sunlight
July 17, 2023 12:00 - 42 minutes - 48.6 MBAlthough we use Intel's NUC as a shorthand for the type of hardware deployed at the far edge, this recently-cancelled platform isn't all there is. This episode of Utilizing Edge looks beyond the NUC, to platforms from Lenovo, Nvidia, and more, with Julian Chesterfield of Sunlight, Andrew Green, and Stephen Foskett. ARM-based solutions, many using the Nvidia Jetson platform, are particularly interesting given their low cost and power consumption and strong GPUs for edge AI. A hyperconverged s...
05x11: Building Resilient Infrastructure at the Edge with Craig Nunes of Nebulon
July 10, 2023 11:00 - 35 minutes - 41 MBEdge infrastructure is susceptible to many of the same security risks as datacenter and cloud, but is often run in less protected environments. This episode of Utilizing Edge features Craig Nunes, Co-Founder and COO of Nebulon, talking to Brian Chambers and Stephen Foskett about the provision of reliable infrastructure services at the edge. Nebulon's product presents storage to servers in a managed way, monitoring and protecting storage in real time. Edge servers must have a known-good syste...
05x10: VMware’s Journey into Edge Computing with Saadat Malik
July 03, 2023 11:00 - 39 minutes - 44.9 MBPerhaps no company is more important to the datacenter than VMware, but how are the company’s technologies applied at the edge? This episode of Utilizing Edge features Saadat Malik, VP and GM of Edge Computing at VMware, discussing the evolution of VMware at the edge with Brian Chambers and Stephen Foskett. The discussion delves into the evolution of VMware’s presence at the edge, highlighting the differences between datacenter and edge environments in terms of people and technology. Malik e...
05x09: Delivering Mature IT Platforms at the Edge with Pierluca Chiodelli
June 26, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes - 41.4 MBDatacenter IT is used to having tight control over infrastructure and applications, but this is challenging to maintain at the edge. This episode of Utilizing Edge features Pierluca Chiodelli of Dell Technology discussing the modern edge application platform with Allyson Klein and Stephen Foskett. A typical edge environment features many different platforms, devices, and connections that must be deployed, managed, and controlled remotely. When looking at the modern edge, Chiodelli recognizes...
05x08: The Middle Mile is the Heart of the Edge
June 19, 2023 13:41 - 34 minutes - 39 MBBetween the so-called last mile and first mile lies the middle mile, the realm of colocation and network service providers. This episode of Utilizing Tech features Roy Chua and Allyson Klein, discussing the middle mile with Stephen Foskett. This middle area includes content delivery services like Varnish and Akamai, as well as companies like Cloudflare that are delivering content and compute there. The middle network includes providers like Equinix, Digital Realty, and Megaport, which provid...
05x07: Economics of Edge Computing with Carlo Daffara of NodeWeaver
June 12, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes - 41.7 MBWhen it comes to edge computing, money is not limitless. Joining us for this episode of Utilizing Edge is Carlo Daffara of NodeWeaver, who discusses the unique economic challenges of edge with Alastair Cooke and Stephen Foskett. Cost is always a factor for technology decisions, but every decision is multiplied when designing edge infrastructure with hundreds or thousands of nodes. Total Cost of Ownership is a critical consideration, especially operations and deployment on-site at remote loca...
05x06: Achieving High Availability at the Edge with StorMagic
June 05, 2023 11:00 - 32 minutes - 37.3 MBAlthough everyone wants high availability from IT systems, the cost to achieve it must be weighed against the benefits. This episode of Utilizing Edge focuses on HA solutions at the edge with Bruce Kornfeld of StorMagic, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett. Although it might be tempting to build the same infrastructure at the edge as in the data center, but this can get very expensive. Thinking about multi-node server clusters and RAID storage, the risk of a so-called split brain means not j...
05x05. The Near Edge and the Far Edge with Andrew Green
May 29, 2023 11:00 - 35 minutes - 40.6 MBThe edge isn't the same thing to everyone: Some talk about equipment for use outside the datacenter, while others talk about equipment that lives in someone else's location. The difference between this far edge and near edge is the topic of Utilizing Edge, with Andrew Green and Alastair Cooke, Research Analysts at Gigaom, and Stephen Foskett. Andrew is drawing a line at 20 ms roundtrip, the point at which a user feels that a resource is remote rather than local. From the perspective of an ap...
05x04: Designing a Scalable Edge Infrastructure with Scale Computing
May 22, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes - 41.8 MBOne of the main differentiators for edge computing is developing a scalable architecture that works everywhere, from deployment to support to updates. This episode of Utilizing Edge welcomes Dave Demlow of Scale Computing discussing the need for scalable architecture at the edge. Scale Computing discussed Zero-Touch Provisioning and Disposable Units of Compute at their Edge Field Day presentation, and we kick off the discussion with these concepts. We also consider the undifferentiated heavy...
05x03: Developer-Friendly Edge Application Management with Avassa
May 15, 2023 11:00 - 43 minutes - 50.3 MBThere is a long-standing gulf between developers and operations, let alone infrastructure, and this is made worse by the scale and limitations of edge computing. This episode of Utilizing Edge features Carl Moberg of Avassa discussing the application-first mindset of developers with Brian Chambers and Stephen Foskett. As we've been discussing, it's critical to standardize infrastructure to make them supportable at the edge, yet we also must make platforms that are attractive to application o...
05x02: Stakeholder Demands at the Retail Edge with Simon Gamble of Mako Networks
May 08, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutes - 39.5 MBEdge has many different stakeholders, applications, and needs, and this is especially true in distributed retail environments. This episode of Utilizing Edge features Simon Gamble of Mako Networks talking with Brian Chambers and Stephen Foskett about the complexities of technology at the retail edge. The key according to Gamble is segmentation of brands, franchisees, and technical applications. In some cases a single location might even include multiple separate companies or tenants under th...
05x01: Commoditization of Edge Infrastructure with ZEDEDA
May 01, 2023 11:00 - 35 minutes - 40.4 MBEdge environments were historically very specialized, but virtualization and cloud technology is enabling companies to deploy commodity platforms at the edge. This episode of Utilizing Edge features Raghu Vatte of ZEDEDA discussing this commoditization with Alastair Cooke and Stephen Foskett. Although the transition is still getting started, standard compute platforms are rapidly being exploited at edge locations, from warehouses to retail to industrial. Even is some specialized hardware is ...
05x00: What is the Edge and What Tech is Utilized There?
April 24, 2023 11:00 - 35 minutes - 65.9 MBAlthough the technology is roughly similar to datacenter or cloud, the unique challenges of edge computing require new approaches to storage, networking, orchestration, deployment, and more. We were kicking off a new season of Utilizing Tech focused on edge computing, featuring Alastair Cooke and Brian Chambers as co-hosts along with Stephen Foskett. One of the key differences for edge computing is the strictly constrained resources there as well as the massive scale. What we now call edge h...
4x21: Why Would System Architects Utilize CXL?
March 27, 2023 11:00 - 37 minutes - 42.6 MBWe're wrapping up this season of Utilizing Tech by asking the key question: Why would a system architect choose to utilize CXL in their designs? This episode of Utilizing CXL features Stephen Foskett, Nathan Bennett, and Craig Rodgers discussing the practical prospects and benefits of CXL. Hosts: Stephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett Craig Rodgers: https://www.twitter.com/CraigRodgersms Nathan Bennett: https://www.twitter.com/vNathanBennett Follow Gestalt IT and Utilizing Te...
4x20: The History and Future of CXL with Jim Pappas
March 20, 2023 11:00 - 45 minutes - 51.9 MBPerhaps no one can tell the story of Compute Express Link (CXL) better than Jim Pappas, who was involved in the development of nearly every related technology, from PCI to UCIe. This episode wraps up the season of Utilizing Tech with Stephen Foskett and Craig Rodgers discussing the evolution of CXL with Jim Pappas, Director of Technology Initiatives at Intel and Chairman of the CXL Consortium. No matter how good the technology is, it needs widespread industry support, backwards and forwards ...
4x19: Enabling Mass Adoption of CXL-Attached Memory with Rambus
March 13, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes - 61.8 MBMoving memory and other resources off the system bus to CXL is exciting, but how do we ensure that these systems will be reliable, available, and serviceable? This episode of Utilizing Tech features Mark Orthodoxou, VP of Strategic Marketing for Datacenter Products at Rambus discussing with Stephen Foskett and Craig Rodgers the technology and standards required for mass adoption of CXL-attached memory. Rambus brings decades of experience and a breadth of technology to the deployment of memor...
4x18: The Past and Future of CXL with Allyson Klein
March 06, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 70.8 MBCXL grew out of a long history of Intel platform technology and promises to revolutionize this platform. This episode of Utilizing CXL features Allyson Klein of TechArena, who shares her vision for the future of disaggregated servers with Craig Rodgers and Stephen Foskett. The foundation for CXL was laid with coherent interconnects and fabrics in previous decades, and the concept of tiered memory draws heavily on the history of Intel and Micron 3D XPoint and Optane Persistent Memory. As was ...
4x17: Memory and More over CXL with UnifabriX
February 27, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 61.9 MBMemory expansion is the first application for CXL, and memory pooling is coming next, but this technology will eventually support storage, Ethernet, and more. This episode of Utilizing CXL brings Ronen Hyatt, CEO of UnifabriX, to discuss memory and more over CXL with Nathan Bennett and Stephen Foskett. UnifabriX demonstrated high-performance compute benchmarks using their Smart Memory Node at Super Computing 22 and claims to be the first to show a CXL 3.0 fabric. But the company is also prom...
4x16: Transparently Tiering Memory in CXL with Hasan Al Maruf
February 20, 2023 12:00 - 37 minutes - 69.2 MBTiered memory will have different performance, so operating systems will need to incorporate techniques to adapt to pages with different characteristics. This episode of Utilizing CXL features Hasan Al Maruf, part of a team that developed transparent page placement for Linux. He began his work enabling transparent page placement for InfiniBand-connected peers before applying the concept to NUMA nodes and now CXL memory. Hosts: Stephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett Craig Rodg...
4x15: Enabling the CXL Device Ecosystem with Marvell
February 13, 2023 12:00 - 29 minutes - 55 MBBringing CXL to market requires a wide variety of components, and Marvell is a key supplier to datacenter and cloud. This episode of Utilizing CXL features Shalesh Thusoo of Marvell, who discusses the many solutions they are creating to bring CXL to market. Current products are directly connecting memory to CPUs via CXL but soon we will see products enabling the sharing of memory between hosts to enable new applications. From Marvell: This podcast contains forward-looking statements withi...
4x14: How the CXL Consortium is Driving Adoption with Siamak Tavallaei
February 06, 2023 12:00 - 41 minutes - 76 MBThe CXL Consortium is an open industry standard group responsible for technical specifications and standards. This episode of Utilizing CXL brings Siamak Tavallaei, CXL president, to discuss the emergence of Compute Express Link. The goal of CXL is to disaggregate servers, moving memory away from the CPU and enabling users to compose servers more flexibly. We have already disaggregated storage from compute, and breaking the fixed memory interconnect will have a similar effect. But we also ne...
4x13: Enabling CXL in Heterogeneous Compute with Arm
January 30, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes - 29.4 MBAlthough the emergence of CXL in server CPUs is big news, the inclusion of this technology in ARM processor IP is just as important. In this episode of Utilizing CXL, Eddie Ramirez of ARM joins Craig Rodgers and Stephen Foskett to discuss CXL in the ARM-powered ecosystem. ARM develops processor IP that is used in CPUs as well as supporting processors throughout the datacenter. We begin with a discussion of CXL 1.1, which brings memory expansion to ARM CPUs. But ARM is also delivering CXL 2.0...
4x12: Mid-Season Look at the CXL Server Platforms
January 23, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 73.1 MBWith both AMD and Intel supporting CXL in their newly-launched server platforms, it's worth taking a moment to consider what has been delivered to date. This special episode of Utilizing CXL brings hosts Stephen Foskett, Craig Rodgers, and Nathan Bennett together to look back at 6 months of CXL announcements now that real products are shipping. We were pleased to see the support delivered by Intel and AMD, but also from Astera Labs, Samsung, SK Hynix, and MemVerge, as well as promising devel...
4x11: Taking CXL To the Next Level with IntelliProp
January 16, 2023 12:00 - 30 minutes - 56.7 MBCXL is being rolled out in production and more reliability, scalability, and security features are being added all the time. This episode of Utilizing Tech focuses on enterprise-grade CXL with John Spiers, CEO of IntelliProp, talking about the ongoing evolution of CXL. IntelliProp is bringing a CXL fabric solution to market the enables memory expansion outside the server over a fabric. CXL 3.0 introduces memory fabrics, but it will take more development to bring features like high availabili...
4x10: Pathfinding Cloud Architecture for CXL with Dan Ernst of Microsoft Azure
January 09, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 70.9 MBCloud architects have long wished for more flexibility in how memory is provisioned in servers, and CXL is finally delivering on a decade of promises. In this episode of Utilizing Tech, Stephen Foskett and Craig Rodgers talk to Dan Ernst of Microsoft, who is deeply involved in bringing CXL-attached memory to fruition within Azure. Dan was previously involved in the Gen-Z effort, and feels that CXL picks up the baton and brings valuable real-world benefits to cloud server architecture. Memory...
4x10: Principal Architect working on Future Azure Cloud Systems
January 09, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 70.9 MBCloud architects have long wished for more flexibility in how memory is provisioned in servers, and CXL is finally delivering on a decade of promises. In this episode of Utilizing Tech, Stephen Foskett and Craig Rodgers talk to Dan Ernst of Microsoft, who is deeply involved in bringing CXL-attached memory to fruition within Azure. Dan was previously involved in the Gen-Z effort, and feels that CXL picks up the baton and brings valuable real-world benefits to cloud server architecture. Memory...
4x09: Looking Forward to CXL in Production in 2023
January 02, 2023 12:00 - 41 minutes - 76.6 MBAs 2023 arrives, so do two server platforms that support CXL, along with associated chipsets, software, and memory expansion cards. This special episode of Utilizing Tech features the three hosts of this season, Stephen Foskett, Craig Rodgers, and Nathan Bennett, discussing the prospects for CXL in 2023. AMD recently introduced Genoa Epyc, featuring CXL and PCIe 5, and it is widely expected that Intel will introduce Sapphire Rapids Xeon very soon with similar support. We expect these new ser...