Raejeanne Skillern, Director of Marketing, Cloud Computing, at Intel discussed cloud trends, the production of HP’s Moonshot system currently being shipped, Intel Atom and other technology trends inside the Cube with hosts David Vellante and John Furrier. Within HP’s Moonshot launch event in New York City, Skillern brought the first production Moonshot to show during the live interview.

Speaking of appliances for the Moonshot server, Skillern mention a class of light weight workloads that benefit from low power servers, analytics being one of the most significant use cases. Hosting providers are also some of the most appropriate customers as this new technology greatly benefits them.

Intel’d Director of Marketing said that the companies finding after researching Hadoop distribution usage cases, is that “there are data notes that might need a lighter weight” and benefit from low power servers, while other processing nodes require more processing power.

Speaking of HP’s announcement and the technology included in their hyperscale servers, she mentioned their statement about investing into the Atom line-up. Intel will have a next generation silicon Atom released soon and wants to continue to collaborate and create converging hardware and infrastructure.

Speaking of the great major technology trends – cloud, mobile, social, and Big Data, Skillern explained that there are quite different needs based on fields of operation. Service providers for example, for whom the major costs are represented by data center, would greatly increase their margin by adopting a power efficient technology. Traditional enterprises, however, have different needs and different decision processes.

Exploring the idea of enterprises being uncomfortable with cloud service providers, she explained that Intel believes that private cloud infrastructure for enterprises can be built cost effectively. “We want to work with companies that want to build out their infrastructure,’ she stated, but Intel also focuses on helping service providers offer more competitive cloud services. The company tries to create technology that helps them generate added value and differentiate their offerings.

Software is critical

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Software is absolutely critical, Skillern explaine, and the right perspective is to look at data centers as a system. Intel has invested in both developing its own software and acquiring software companies and focuses on making sure “that as we build out the solution, it takes advantage of what’s in the hardware,” so that it gets the most optimized performance out of a deployment.

“Moonshot is really about workload optimized systems,” she explained. Speaking of how the new architecture changes the security model, Skillern said that Intel’s perspective is that of “unique security at every layer.” Security is needed at each step and Moonshot is just another step. Intel and HP will continue to do to drive security management and help people manage their infrastructure well, she added.