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- Hello, and thanks for joining Microsoft and Intel
in this hybrid digital event
I'm Christine McMonigal,
Director of Hyperconverged Infrastructure Marketing
at Intel, and I'm eager to speak with you today
about how a successful hybrid strategy starts with hardware.
At Intel, we see how enterprises are mobilizing
to accomplish digital first transformation strategies.
In fact, 95% of CEOs report they are pursuing
a digital first strategy.
Of course, businesses are facing pressure
to identify new revenue opportunities, innovate solutions,
improve customer experiences,
as well as being more secure and agile,
both operationally and in the market.
With more data being collected,
enterprises are looking to harness,
and apply that data in new ways to leap ahead.
Additionally, there's this growing distributed workforce
and hybrid work environment
that presents its own set of challenges.
This environment demands stable, secure,
powerful technology, which supports employees,
as well as protecting the company, and its data.
So enterprises are addressing these five top priorities
to enable their digital transformation progress
and achieve business success.
Intel and Microsoft are partnering
to simplify that digital transformation journey
and provide you with concrete solutions.
Of course, workloads, infrastructure in the cloud,
are at the center of this transformation,
but the meaning of the phrase, cloud first, has changed.
It's not about prioritizing the public cloud as a location.
Now it's more strategic,
it's about developing a cloud strategy
and cloud operating model
that extends from private to multiple public clouds,
edge-managed service providers.
Enterprises need flexibility and agility
to place workloads where it makes the most sense
for their evolving business.
The business challenges we just discussed
are the drivers of digital transformation,
and once an IT organization realizes
what specific changes they need to make
that drives modernization of existing apps and workloads
or the need for new apps.
In today's environment,
companies are considering how
and where to deploy those modernized workloads
as part of their cloud strategy and operating model.
As we saw in the market data earlier,
the majority are weighing multiple placement choices
and Intel can serve as the infrastructure
regardless of that choice.
So regardless of where that modernized workload
will ultimately live
or how that infrastructure will be consumed
whether that's a CAPEX or an OPEX model,
Intel can help enterprises,
might be Intel based on premises
or edge infrastructure, like HCI.
might be Intel based instances in the public cloud
or Intel based infrastructure in Colo and MSP environments.
Intel offers that consistent infrastructure foundation
across six generations
of Xeon processors with Intel virtualization technologies.
That enables the workload to be placed
wherever it makes the most sense for the business.
It's important to evaluate the underlying capabilities
of that infrastructure, whether on premise,
or in a public cloud instance
to ensure it will meet the requirements of the workload
in terms of performance, scalability, security, and access.
Intel offers the broadest choice of options.
Azure Stack HCI on Intel
offers customers a solution
that's hybrid at its core.
As we think about the benefits,
here are a few key things I'd like to highlight.
Consistency is so important
to provide that workload placement flexibility,
and Intel virtualization technologies
provide that migration capability
between clouds and across hardware generations.
When coupled with the software infrastructure foundation
across Azure, Azure Stack HCI and Azure Arc,
together we provide the workload portability
you need for today,
and the flexibility to make changes
as business needs change in the future.
I also wanna key in here on security,
so critical in today's environment.
We're working with Microsoft
to ensure we provide comprehensive security
from the hardware to the software.
In fact, let me dive a little bit deeper
on that in the next slide.
Intel and Microsoft have partnered in developing
and implementing several key security technologies.
First, Secured Core builds upon the foundation
provided by the trusted platform module in the system,
but it simplifies security with easier configuration
through Windows Admin Center and Broad OEM Support,
provides in-depth protection
across multiple layers of firmware, hardware, and OS.
Intel Crypto Acceleration
helps to protect data at rest by accelerating performance
across a host of cryptographic algorithms.
Azure Stack HCI has integrated vector AES instructions
and extensions to the secure hash algorithms
which reduces the performance impact
of pervasive encryption,
making it possible for users to broadly encrypt data
without trading off performance.
And Intel Total Memory Encryption Multi-Key
extends the data at rest protection to runtime protection,
encrypting the entire memory in Azure Stack HCI
with up to 64 hardware generated keys.
The hypervisor can assign these keys
using the 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable processors,
and then that allows for memory isolation
as well as Per-VM encryption.
This allows an existing software to run unmodified
while better protecting data in memory.
Now, memory can be encrypted across the platform
and VMs have separate encryption
to protect VM memory data
between each other on the same hypervisor.
After you have a modernized set of workloads,
determine where and on what cloud infrastructure
to place them and then deploy them.
The project, of course, doesn't end there.
Your cloud operations should monitor
and measure those workloads
against your cloud business objectives
and success metrics.
Empower your developers and ops teams to collaborate easily,
to iterate and improve success.
The approaches that worked well can then be scaled
to the next set of priority apps
and workloads you wanna modernize,
while those that aren't delivering to the success metrics
may need further modification either to the app itself,
or where it's placed.
The point here is to plan
for a continuous improvement process
and set those expectations with stakeholders
that it's not a one time effort, but an iterative journey.
Let's talk about how Intel can support you
in achieving optimal results and reducing costs.
If you're looking to move to the public cloud,
modernize on-premises, or right size your environments,
we have a portfolio of cloud optimization software and tools
that are designed to help you with decisions
from building your business case for modernization
to selecting the right cloud instance for your workload
to optimizing your application in the public cloud.
On the left side our assessment and optimization tools
are data driven tools that deliver actionable insights
and recommendations for your workload migration,
as well as cost optimization
and improving application performance.
In the middle stack if you're building cloud services
or optimizing applications running in a cloud,
we have a portfolio of performance profiling
and analysis tools that are built
to improve performance, reduce latency,
and scale across different cloud environments.
On the right side our recipes, stacks, and containers,
are optimized for Intel technologies
to improve performance and reduce application latency.
And for application developers,
we have optimized toolkits
to take advantage of built-in Intel acceleration libraries.
Our application development tools
are available through Intel oneAPI,
which you can search on and that supports developers
in optimizing performance on Intel technologies,
regardless of where that workload will eventually run.
We recognize the need to arm you with the right tools
and also help you with solutions
that are easy to deploy pre-validated, battle-tested,
so you can execute with confidence.
Well, it's great to have a wide range of options,
as we see in the Azure Stack HCI solution catalog,
it's also time and resource intensive
to evaluate all of the options
to determine what will meet your requirements.
Intel Select Solutions are predefined,
workload-optimized solutions
designed to simplify and accelerate infrastructure,
evaluation, and deployment.
These solutions have been tested, optimized,
to meet or exceed a minimum performance level.
Intel Select Solutions are available
from multiple server platform manufacturers,
and they can support a wide variety of workloads
from the edge to the data center.
If you look at our Select Solutions for Azure Stack HCI,
they simplify deployments with optimized configurations
for both the edge and the data center.
We've reduced the time to evaluate, select, and purchase,
streamlining the time for you to deploy new infrastructure.
And we've performed rigorous benchmarking on this solution.
Multiple configuration options were tested
and benchmarked across both compute and storage benchmarks
to arrive not just at great performance,
but optimized price performance.
And here's an example to bring the power
of the solution to life.
A global retail grocery chain
needed to modernize their IT infrastructure.
They turned to Azure Stack HCI
using Intel as the foundation
for more flexibility in running their workloads locally.
As a result, they have compute power where they need it,
and with high availability.
I'll leave you with some resources today
to help you learn more about the benefits
of Azure Stack HCI on Intel.
You'll see here, a link to the Intel Select Solutions
for Azure Stack HCI.
Also a terrific performance report from ESG's analysts
and you can search on Intel oneAPI
for those developer tools.
And most importantly,
take a test drive of Azure Stack HCI on Intel today.
Thank you very much for joining me.
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