In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we learn about the nuances behind software-defined infrastructure, how new approaches to telemetry are changing the way users interact with their data and the ways that distributed analytics can be put into practice in the enterprise. The New Stack founder Alex Williams spoke with Intel Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI) Distributed Analytics Engineer Brian Womack during the 2016 Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco to get his thoughts on these topics and more.
In his role at Intel, Womack explained the concept of data as we recognize it today has shifted. Rather than working with traditional analytics, many of todays platforms and services are taking a distributed approach to data and their infrastructures. We introduced a term here at IDF called a software-defined resource. Theres four types: Processor, memory, fabric and storage. People who manage data centers have collected telemetry in the past to try to observe what software-defined resources are doing so that you can do something about it, Womack said.
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