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pww.comIntel Corporation Presents at Virtual Event on the future of Cloud Native, Jun-25-2020 10:40 AM - NasdaqGS:INTC

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Rajesh Gadiyar [VP of Data Platforms Group & CTO of Network Platforms Group] 💬

Rajesh Gadiyar, Vice President of the Data Platforms Group and CTO of the Network Platforms Group at Intel Corporation, shared several insights during the virtual event on the future of cloud native. Below is a detailed summary of his statements:

Key Points Discussed by Rajesh Gadiyar

  1. Progress in Network Transformation:

    • The industry has made significant progress in network transformation, particularly with Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).
    • The biggest accomplishment has been the disaggregation of hardware and software, enabling faster innovation and transforming network infrastructure.
    • Disaggregation has driven a larger ecosystem and allowed new players to enter the market.

  2. Benefits of Disaggregation:

    • Flexibility in bringing in new applications from different vendors and mixing and matching them.
    • Enhanced ability to monitor, optimize, and modify applications.
    • Improved performance scalability through virtualization and standard server infrastructure.

  3. Preparing for 5G:

    • The foundation set with NFV will help drive new services with velocity as 5G ramps up.
    • Intel is poised to capitalize on the cloud-native transition, focusing on automation and ease of use for developers.

  4. Intel’s Strategy:

    • A three-pronged strategy to achieve a programmable, scalable, and intelligent network infrastructure:
      • Improving underlying platforms and architectures for network applications.
      • Cloudifying the network through further disaggregation, automation, and adoption of cloud tools and methodologies.
      • Industry collaboration with open source and standards communities, as well as commercial ecosystems.

  5. Benefits of Cloud Native:

    • Creating and deploying new services with agility to monetize 5G.
    • Operational agility through continuous integration and development.
    • Resource efficiency through disaggregation.
    • Improved end-to-end user experience.

  6. Focus Areas:

    • Infrastructure: Driving best-in-class network capabilities on standard server infrastructure.
    • Automation and Lifecycle Management: Adopting a CI/CD paradigm.
    • Application and Service Creation: Making it easier for cloud developers to innovate rapidly.

  7. Collaboration with Red Hat:

    • Improving container technologies and working on Multus, a CNI plugin for attaching container ports to multiple networks.
    • Collaborating in open source communities, particularly in Kubernetes, to expose platform capabilities.
    • Joint lab efforts to standardize NFV infrastructure and drive joint certification programs.

  8. Future Collaboration:

    • Continuation of collaboration to address challenges in 5G ramp-up, virtualization of radio access networks, and edge services with cloud-native transformation.

  9. Final Thoughts:

    • Excitement about the possibilities enabled by 5G, including low latency, end-to-end quality of service, and network slicing.
    • Enthusiasm for a more cloud-native approach to placing workloads and bringing compute closer to applications and services.
    • Vision for making the network programmable, scalable, and intelligent.

These points highlight Rajesh Gadiyar's perspective on the current state of the industry and Intel's strategic direction in the context of cloud-native technologies and the transition to 5G.

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