A small group from Atos NAM attended Intel’s Developer Forum to meet with different members of Intel’a leadership team as we continue to strengthen and enhance our partnership. As a background, in NAM we are working closely with Intel to help us enhance our portfolio by creating differentiated services through the use of their technology. You are probably aware of the work we did with Intel to validate our belief that vPro technology could be widely used to reduce a large number of incidents in our customer environment, and also eliminate costly dispatches. We wrote a white paper you can find here http://intel.ly/1qRtvlV and then built a case study,http://intel.ly/1sZlxYF based upon lessons learned from Towers Watson.
Well we are taking this success and building on it as we move to Gartner IT/Symposium in Orlando. At Symposium Intel and Atos will be sponsoring the CIO dinner, where leaders from the IT industry will convene and learn more about this fruitful partnership. At Symposium itself we will be keeping with the theme of digital transformation and showcasing the Wireless Workplace, Collaboration and End-Point Protection, all with support and technologies from Intel. Shortly we will publish Innovation Briefs that will discuss how these technologies can help transform our customers.
At IDF, Atos was able to validate that our strategic intent around many of the corporate initiatives we have decided are critical to our success are spot on. We know that innovation will drive our customers to transform and with our current offerings and Intel technologies we now we will be able deliver on the vision. In the area of workplace services the strengthening of Intel Security will only mean enhanced security services that can be leveraged through our commitment to McAfee end-point technologies. New form factors and features will allow us to start to build new capabilities around the workplace of the future. As wireless docking and charging, geo-fencing and location based services mature, companies will be untethered from the traditional work boundaries and design new future workspaces. These new workspaces will open up new opportunities for collaboration, and as Real Sense technology, opens up the possibility of gesture to remove physical boundaries in virtual collaboration. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention some silicon. The new Core M vPro processor is going to enable a whole new set of managed enterprise devices that will give users a tablet-like experience in managed 2 in 1 form factor. It will be interesting to see what comes out from Intel as a reference design. On a geekier note the device that stood out to me was the Dell Venue 8 -7000 – A new tablet coming from Dellhttp://cnet.co/1nY1x3j
While the show was full of the traditional workplace technologies you would expect from Intel and the supporting ODM and OEM players, to me the most interesting push from Intel was their constant reminder that they are the 4th largest software house in the world by number of developers. This was most evident when they began their push into Software Defined Infrastructure. In Diane Bryant’s Mega Session she captures the current Intel developments in the area of SDI and Rack Scale Architecture. Rack scale architectures, which she believes is the next step forward in software defined systems. As she noted “The company has been working with a "growing list" of OEDMs, OEMs, ISVs and open source organizations to replace traditional architectures with pooled and disaggregated computing, networking and storage resources using modular hardware.” She went on to say “As you can imagine the majority of IT organizations do not have the data center scale nor the deep engineering expertise so they can develop a next generation data center solution like this. It is through industry collaboration and innovation that these kinds of transformation occur." This statement supports the belief at Atos that we need to aggressively pursue our Software Defined Data Center Strategy, as Intel is willing to make bets on partners who are aggressively moving this agenda forward. In a breakfast session with Shannon Poulin, Intel Data Center Group vice president, he stated that Intel has plans to connect with management tools from OpenStack, Microsoft and VMware, allowing workloads to be allocate to optimized hardware. He envisioned an environment where “Eventually the software will demand the capability to land on a piece of hardware that can accelerate its workload. In order to do that you need both the platform to know what it is capable of, and then the software to know what it wants, with some orchestration software that can act as matchmaker and put the two together.” In our session he went on to say that it will take unique system integrators who can understand all the dependencies through the stack to make this environment work.
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