 We're here at Intel Developer, I'm John Furrier with SiliconAngle.com, and I'm here with Doss Kamhout, who's senior engineer at Intel IT and also runs the cloud at Intel. We're here in the Intel Developer Zone, software.intel.com, and software is a big theme, mobility and user computing, ease of use, Intel really has assembled the alpha geeks in the industry, really working on the next generation platforms that's going to power the future of the data center and mobility. Doss, welcome to the Cube. Thank you very much. Tell me about the Intel IDF and share with the folks out there what's happening here. Obviously, the alpha geeks are assembled and they're really eating the story up. Talk about the vision and how that relates to the real world. Yes, I think it's pretty cool. Intel's seen us, the core and the brains of a lot of what's happening in the industry. People feel there's a lot of geeks here, but Dottie Prometter, who runs our Intel architecture group, just presented a keynote. What he was talking about is the touch of the humans. He said the word touch, but really it's about enriching the lives of everybody on earth over the next decade. It's cool to see this focus on the user experience and how we connect that to the products that are underneath the hood of basically everything from a phone to the back-end data centers. At SiliconANGLE.com, we've been covering since 2010, cloud, mobile and social kind of before was fashionable. That's really where computer science meets social science and obviously the consumer applications like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, it gets all the rage, Apple, App Store, and those are the consumer rage right now, but really what's happening is there's a real innovation in the enterprise where businesses who actually power a lot of the workers out there. You run the IT cloud for Intel. Share with the folks out there what this trend and this transformation means for this new era of computing. It's pretty cool. Look at what Facebook's doing, what Twitter's doing, and actually for us, it's help pushing, it's a catalyst in a way for enterprise shops. Enterprise shops often take a long time to change, even though we run things, we keep things functioning, we keep the business working, right? We do a lot of business to business, but we see this change as really a catalyst for us to do things different, and one of the major things that we're driving different is running the data center as software, which is a pretty stark change, but if you look at Facebook and a few others, that's what they've been doing for a while, including Amazon and Google, so it's an inspiring time to work in IT because of these changes that are going on. We've had your CIO on theCUBE at HP Discover, Kim, and she talked about big data and all the stuff you guys are doing, big data, so I don't think we need to rehash that, but there's a lot of stuff going on in software in particular, in the data center and in the cloud, which is essentially a huge data center. What's going on with this innovation around software, because the data center, we're hearing that from folks like VMware, EMC, and others like Google, or the software-defined networking, software-defined data center, or software-defined infrastructures, really powering future applications, so can you share with the folks out there, what does that mean, the software-defined data center? Yeah, you have to look at it from two angles, so first of all is for the application guys, the guys that are developing code. They want to move quickly, they want to be agile, they're using practices allowed of them to roll out code daily, and this is a massive change in how IT shops ran in the past, but it's how Etsy's pretty successful. If you watched the RETTA Velocity Conference, there was a lot of talk about how you do software quicker. Now, in order to do that, you need the data center to operate in the same fashion. So when we talk about software-defined networks or storage as a service, or compute as a service, really what we're talking about is exposing all this as software, as APIs that the software developers can basically build their solutions on and be extremely agile. So it's a stark change from where we were, where there was a lot of button pushers, people, not a lot of automation, but switching to the entire data center as a software solution, which is maybe sounds neat and hypey, but in reality it's a massive transformation that's going on in enterprise shops starting now. You guys are known for being the commodity servers, Intel powers, the data center, multicores. You guys, obviously, have powered that whole compute revolution. We've been following David Tuey, who we'll talk to later today. Storage has changed, and so has networking. Can you talk about what that has done to the IT department, and what are some of the practical benefits that this new flash storage trends and software and how that relates to the convergence of the software-led infrastructure? Yeah, so I think we're just at the tip right now. So if you look at Amazon or a lot of the IPDC or the data center cloud service providers, they've been doing a lot of this stuff for a little while now, right? So Google talked about what they're doing with software-defined networks. Part of the change that we're seeing is people starting to use compute for many different roles. But if you look fundamentally at across the entire data center infrastructure, look inside of the networking gear. What's in there? It's usually an Intel brain. Look inside the storage. What's in there? It's usually an Intel CPU, the brain. So basically, what we're seeing is this transformation of the data center to this massively powerful environment that's exposed through software. And what we would love to see, obviously, is lots of Intel powering that. And it's a pretty large change to see that happening across server storage and network. And it's going on right now. But the reason I said it's a tip, it's just starting for enterprise shops. Can you give some examples where you've seen some practical changes in your organization over the past year? Oh, definitely. So we went from lots of silos of teams working on 100 servers to 500 servers to this massive federated environment inside of Intel IT that's starting to be exposed as APIs. So what that provides us is we can run the environment with a smaller amount of headcount, but give the developers what they need, which is agility to build on top of the data center. So we're seeing a pretty large change. And another key one is we even have this thing called a cloud sysadmin. It's somebody that knows compute or server storage and network all together in one package and are able to basically handle that breath as one engineer versus having three guys just focus on one type of technology. Talk about some of the changes just in the past four years in IT, specifically Intel. You guys obviously are a leader, a pioneer. There's still the fast followers and then the folks they have to who cross the chasm, if you will. So what's change in IT? We've seen no SQL databases, we've seen analytics, we've seen software, we've seen sensors, all kinds of network management changes. So what's changed over the past three years, four years that you've seen? Yeah, and as you said, it's the pushers, the fast followers. We're starting to see a lot of those capabilities that have been running the internet, starting to get into IT shops and people starting to understand how that changes how they operate. From taking security logs and being able to use big data capabilities to scan your environment and see what's really going on and pulling data out, to people starting to realize that they can take big data solutions like Google started with MapReduce and Yahoo took on with Hadoop and starting to take that and use that to how they deal with their customers. So you're starting to see all these changes get brought into an IT shop in their on-premise solutions and then the second change we're seeing is that more consumption of SaaS, which is actually kind of a game changer that we don't talk about a lot, but the switch heavily from both consumer software to enterprise software into the SaaS model and what type of changes that implies for how we connect data across the whole ecosystem. What positions out there for the folks who are looking to reinvent themselves with an IT, whether it's a job function or just a career advancement or just to get their hands on some new tech to play with to help their organization? What new jobs have you seen created? What jobs have been replaced? You mentioned Network Admin, DevOps is something that's been really popular in the cloud movement that's extending into the enterprise. Can you share your perspective on these new titles, these new opportunities for folks to look in for growth opportunities? Yeah, there's actually three things we have to see. So the first is Netflix. I think they coined the term it's called no ops, but basically what that means to us is these cloud sys admins that become invisible, right? So they're just running this massive infrastructure at very high scale. So this is a very important role, but they're the ones that allow no ops to happen. And then we have the DevOps guys. So my personal belief is we need more people doing software development to make the industry move faster. And I think enterprise IT shops need to embrace that. It's not just about button pushing and reading documents. It's about actually pushing the envelope with software. And the third area is cloud integrators. And these are people that are able to, from a technical perspective, understand how do I connect the SaaS solution? How do I pull the data back into my environment? How do I connect things through web services? So these three roles of powering no ops through cloud sys admins, software guys on the DevOps space, and the cloud integrators that make it all function together seamlessly. Those are pretty massive changes, and we're starting to see them become more and more real in IT shops. My final question is, share the folks out there things that they could do today to start moving in this direction of this modern era of the data center of computing for software defined infrastructures. So my first thing to say is go out into the open community. There's both OpenStack, which is pretty impressive as a community to pull people together. There's great work going on with software defined networks, with open storage solutions and open compute. Secondly, reach out to things like the open data center alliance, which bring together IT shops to help and push each other moving forward. And then there's either other cool things like what Facebook started with open compute projects. So basically get familiar with what's going on the open industry. We're seeing a change that was like Unix to Linux, and it's happening now in the cloud and data space. And so jump out there, be part of the industry, meet with your peers, and really help push all this forward, and they can do it now. Okay, we're at DOSCAM out here in the developer zone at IDF Intel Development Forum 2012. This is John Furrier, SiliconANGLE. Thanks for watching.