As much as I love advocating for AMD EPYC technologies, I have a special fondness for sharing what our partners and customers have to say about working with AMD and the EPYC processor portfolio.  It is one of my priorities when selecting topics and guests for the AMD TechTalk podcast.  Paul Sun, of IronYun, recently joined the podcast and spoke with me about the growing opportunities in visual analytics — thanks to advancements in AI-vision applications, Edge computing and new hardware. I've included highlights from our chat in this brief blog. 

Rebecca Weekly, vice president of infrastructure at Geico, is part of the leadership team overseeing digital transformation for the country's second-largest car insurer.  Rebecca kindly shared some of her experiences with the AMD EPYC TechTalk podcast series. The full interview can be heard here, it is a great listen. You can also find highlights from the interview below.

When facing the renewal of software licenses, the financial impact can be daunting, prompting considerations on cost-effective strategies. AMD offers a unique approach: when evaluating licensing requirements, refreshing infrastructure with AMD EPYC CPUs can prove to be extremely cost effective. This is particularly advantageous for software licensed per-core, such as VMware solutions, certified to run seamlessly on AMD infrastructure. AMD EPYC processors, including high-frequency variants, can reduce core count requirements, thereby lowering software license expenses significantly. Migration tools like VMware Architecture Migration Tool (VAMT) facilitate moving virtual machines from Intel to AMD clusters, ensuring a smooth transition with features like Change Window Support and Process Throttling. Bottom line - migrating to AMD EPYC based solutions can not only enhances performance but also improve total cost of ownership (TCO), security, and overall value.

Chaos develops 3D visualization technology for architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. The company’s software solutions run on and are optimized for AMD EPYC processor-based systems. I’m happy to be able to share some highlights from our discussion in this brief blog post.  You can listen to the full podcast here.   

Look beyond the hype. AMD EPYC Processors outperform the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip across key workloads without compromises and expensive architectural transitions.

The confluence of high performance, highly efficient hardware and market leading, run-the-business software means productivity and innovation.  Ashish Ray of Oracle recently joined the AMD TechTalk podcast to share his thoughts on technology and business.  This article provides a summary of some of his key points.

Industry benchmarks show single- and dual-socket 4^th Gen AMD EPYC™ based systems delivering between ~2.00x and ~3.70x higher performance and more than double the energy efficiency of a 2P NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip based system.

AMD EPYC processors along with solutions from VMware® by Broadcom, such as VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere® Foundation (VVF), which include software such as vSphere®, vCenter®, vSAN® and NSX, provide a solid foundation for constructing private cloud infrastructures. The strategic collaboration between AMD and VMware By Broadcom empowers organizations to effectively deploy and manage virtualized environments that fulfill their performance and scalability needs while optimizing energy efficiency and total cost of ownership.

Our industry is rife with hyperbole and hard-to-defend and hard-to-replicate claims. AMD takes a different and more transparent approach. AMD EPYC servers make your Datacenter AI-Ready by improving performance and power efficiency without compromises, and with published numbers that speak for themselves.

As businesses evolve into the age of AI, the focus on revamping data center technologies to manage and secure the exploding amount of data and applications is gaining momentum.  Despite tough economic challenges and tight IT budgets, organizations are looking to refresh their servers and storage solutions while ensuring robust data management and protection. Cohesity, a leader in AI-powered data security and management, recently announced a collaboration with AMD to widen customer choices by running on servers powered by AMD with some of our biggest technology partners, including HPE. This blog post explores the advantages of modernizing your data centers with Cohesity on HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers powered by AMD EPYC processors and how this combination can revolutionize your data management and protection strategy.