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BriForum the Aftermath- “The Intern’s” Thoughts

Posted by Sophia Stalliviere Aug 4, 2008

A month and a half has gone by since the BriForum and I am talking about it as if I was there yesterday. Jason Davidson and I, from time to time, reference many events that went on there. One day I was on BrianMadden.com and there was a post about a webinar that would be taking place on Wednesday July 30, 2008 about a summary on BriForum 2008. I promptly agreed to attend and shot an email to Jason. Jason, of course, signed up in a heartbeat.

It was fun to sit there and conjure up all sorts of thoughts while Brian Madden reviewed different topics that was presented at BriForum over the speaker. One of the interesting headliners that I am always interested in was on virtualization. There were many other topics but this one stuck with me. I remember that I read a blog that Brian did and he believes that if companies did things a certain way then they can become completely virtual by 2010.

You cannot help but reap the benefits from virtualization. There is more opportunity for memory banks, being able to help, fix, or get information remotely so you wouldn't have to be physically there, in addition, it would help on the green cause that much of society has picked up on. Less travel for people to work on the products, streaming applications instead of using products to produce them, and it also allows the IT department to keep the computers up to date almost instantaneously instead of days of work on computers.

While I was sitting there, I started to ponder; with as many positive, there are with virtualization (well with any great product) there is always going to be some sort of negative that goes along with it. I love learning everything I can about it; yet, I can't help but be a little skeptical about it. What if a company becomes so dependant on it and suddenly there is this "problem" that one can't fix. There is no perfect product.

Say the bandwidth is being over used within the company and it slows the internet connection. Could there be a problem large facilities like hospitals who would use and rely on the internet and if they had virtualization in their company and its connection doesn't work anymore? I am sure there would be a back up plan, but in a place where every second counts, would this really be a good situation for virtualization to be? Too much overhead or is this really the solution of our future?

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"The Intern's" Thoughts: ECMF and You...

Posted by Sophia Stalliviere Jul 11, 2008

I am sitting here contemplating what does ECMF have to do with me?

Lately I have been really into the future of virtualization. The concepts that I have been learning in school really didn't sink in until I was thrown into it. It's funny how that works. I am not saying getting a higher education that you wouldn't learn anything. I am not saying that, you learn a lot. But what I am saying is that some people's passion goes beyond than what you learn from books. I can go to a French class everyday and learn the language. If I go to France then I can learn the culture and the language. What I am talking about here is Immersive Studies in Virtualization!

One trend that has become clear to me with all the cool hardware I get to see in my internship at Intel is that the hardware gets stronger while the size and power requirements gets small - and this is not going away. But one thing we have to realize, there is always going to be the equipment no matter what, and that equipment is going to have more and more features for us to pound on. Virtualization has been my new love, and not just for server consolidation, but application and desktop virtualization are the next killer ideas. The concept really sunk in after a few talks with Jason Davidson (my guide through the galaxy, you are my virtualization 42!) and also during the BriForum (I am still on a high from that one!!).

In my other blog series on the vPro Expert Center, I am on a journey of learning vPro (links), and feel like intellectually I am on a roller coaster ride of knowledge. Now that I am on this virtualization roller coaster I have to wonder how wild and crazy this ride will be - am I going to get off it alive? Application and desktop virtualization I believe will soon start to take over our lives.

As this old Commodore 64 advertisement below portrayed...25 years ago, people wanted to be the "movers of this world" with the power at their fingertips. This was typically used to simply play games and create a few documents. Now, 25 years later, the world has changed - we have mobility, we still have fun, but we stay connected. Yet, we are still on this ride of looking for the next faster, smaller, cute, reliable, and fun, device - it almost has to be our non-emotional twin.

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The computer reflects who we are as a person. The applications that is on our systems fit to how we like them. Is it going to come to a point where we can just think of what we want and the computer will know automatically what it is? (I guess that's what Google is for but you still have to type it out) it's to the point where we won't need to have the computer in front of us. We will be able to talk into a "Bluetooth" type deal and all the information will come up on a mobilized screen in front of us. (Huh, okay nobody take that idea I am going to go out and patent it right now! A great reference is the video about St. Agnes Academy. (Check it out on Jason Davidson's area St. Agnes Prep School use Emerging Compute Models with Video.) Will the operating system become less important, and provide just the basics we need to launch any application in a virtual environment - an environment that we can have upgraded & managed with ease. Will future computer users never install application - but simply click the icon to launch them and boom you have it? How easy is streaming going to make things?

Add to this the vPro features and I can see a day when IT doesn't have to physically be in front of your computer to diagnose or fix it, and when it is broken you can migrate to a new one with some simple streaming...

Pretend for a moment that you had the opportunity to come up with anything in the world, anything at all. You had all the equipment and can make anything. What would be your item that you would make to revolutionize this world?

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The BriForum Experience: Through the Eyes of "The Intern"

Posted by Sophia Stalliviere Jun 24, 2008

BriForum by Sophia "the intern" Stalliviere

I recently started with Intel as a summer intern, coming from Washington State University (go cougars), and had the privilege of doing something very unique for an Intern - going on a business trip! Last week I went to the BriForum, I didn't have any idea what I got myself into when I went, however, I found it to be a great experience. I think of myself as technically savvy person, but at a show where they have a multi-part series on the "excruciating details" of the logon process challenged my level of tech savvy! To be immersed in the detailed language of computers at this event was both very scary and very exciting at the same time. At this forum there were many people, representing different parts of the world - connected by one thing: the future of computers. Now when I say future, we aren't talking about just computers doing the same things faster, smaller, and cheaper; but we are talking about the changes that will come from the virtual execution world. A world where the application you run may be running on the device your using right now to view this blog, or it may be executing in a number of other places, but viewed just like you are doing right now, with manageability, security, and flexibility at the heart of the solution.

My Intel manager, Jason Davidson hosted one of the sessions, as well as sponsored the food for the BriForum party (details about the party will be on my personal page J). He decided to have a discussion on . In his session he did something a little bit different than the other sessions. Instead of telling everyone his thoughts about his subject, he had questions up on the projection screen and the panel discussed the questions. The panel consisted of Jason Davidson, Brian Madden, Brian Duckering, and Ron Oglesby. All of them had different views on the topic which made it very energizing and intriguing. The audience got into it by asking questions and also waited till after the sessions to approach the speakers on the topic.

The sessions were really great, and I learned a bunch. I also found the networking with people at the event to be one of my strong points and was able to learn about many end-user experiences and products. Jason and I went to each of the demos and I observed him talking to each of the companies about their roles in this forum. Then, in turn, we talked about our roles with Intel. We put the word out about the Emerging Compute Model Forum. Many of the people are interested in looking around the site.

All in all the trip was great...and a great start of my internship!

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