Ed Bugnion, Vice President and CTO, Server Access and Virtualization, Cisco Systems
Cisco sees Cloud Computing as a transformative force, and the company has been working closely with Intel as it develops its unified computing system (UCS), an optimized platform for virtualization and the Cloud. In this video, Ed Bugnion describes how a series of innovations between Citrix and Intel address Cloud-related challenges in networking and memory, as well as optimizing UCS for the Intel® Xeon® processor. The result is a balanced and robust solution designed to scale with evolving business needs and usage models in the Cloud.

Simon Crosby, CTO, Virtualization, Citrix Systems
Citrix has evolved its traditional focus on delivering applications and desktops as a service toward a utility model where both private and public Clouds will deliver enterprise-class infrastructure on demand. In this video, Simon Crosby describes how Citrix’s continuing collaboration with Intel has built on Xen’s* high optimization for Intel® platforms to provide architectures specifically for very large Cloud environments. As a result, joint Intel-Citrix solutions are poised to deliver enormous savings in power, space, and support costs while delivering greater enterprise agility and availability.

Vijay Tewari, Principal Program Manager, Windows Server*, Microsoft
Microsoft is creating a broad spectrum of products to enable Cloud Computing as the evolution of the data center toward the private and public Cloud. Windows Server* 2008 with Hyper-V*, paired with Microsoft Systems Center, helps businesses build dynamic and responsive next-generation infrastructure. In this video, Vijay Tewari talks about work by Microsoft and Intel to tune the hardware and software Cloud solution stack for high performance and scalability. Hyper-V is optimized to take excellent advantage of Intel® platforms, minimizing overhead to help customers achieve excellent results as they build out Cloud solutions.

Orran Krieger, vCloud* Architect, VMware
VMware has been building capabilities into its solutions that enable enterprises to adopt internal and external Cloud topologies. The company’s approach, in part, is to make the internal Cloud compatible with the external Cloud by adding security, automation, and scalability to enable multi-tenancy with potentially tens of thousands of hosts. In this video, Orran Krieger describes how VMware APIs will enable that parity between internal and external Clouds to exchange applications back and forth in a smooth utility model. VMware’s joint enablement with Intel has helped applications deliver near-native performance under virtualization on Intel® platforms, a capability they are now extending to the Cloud.