Intel courts devs with open arms and exotic hardware
Interview Intel is attempting to woo developers to its cloud with early access to unreleased hardware and a born-again attitude to open source in a bid to differentiate itself from competitors.
Markus Flierl, corporate veep for Intel's Developer Cloud, is an IT veteran that survived both Sun's absorption by Oracle and a stint as head of GPU cloud infrastructure at Nvidia, before taking on the current role.
Flierl attended the recent Kubecon Europe 2024 event and kicks off the conversation with us by describing Intel's approach compared to AI darling Nvidia as "fundamentally different."
"Everything is open," he says. "And we very much encourage the participation of the community to help work with us, as opposed to the more proprietary strategy that Nvidia is pursuing."
The Reg feels duty bound - for the purposes of balance - to point out that Nvidia is a significant contributor to many open source projects, including Kubernetes, Docker, and the Linux kernel itself.
