Systems RAS Architecture Enablement

Platform and Systems Engineering, Intel

Dr. Yogesh Varma is a Data Center Platform Application Engineering RAS Systems and Hardware Enablement Manager in the Platform and Systems Engineering (PSE) group of the Intel Data Center and AI (DCAI) business unit. He is responsible for end-to-end full-stack RAS architecture enablement of the Intel Xeon® server platforms throughout the product lifecycle.  Prior to this role, Yogesh was a member of Dell’s PowerEdge® portfolio engineering team, where he worked on many generations of x64 CPU based PowerEdge platform designs. Yogesh is a regular contributor in Open Compute Project where he leads Hardware Fault Management and Fleet Memory Fault Management projects.

Yogesh earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and an MBA.  He also holds six server system design patents.

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Corporate Vice President, General Manager, Data Center and AI Product Management, Intel Corporation

Dr. Zane A. Ball is a Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center and AI (DCAI) Product Management Group. DCAI Product Management is responsible for end-to-end stewardship of DCAI’s systems, SW, CPU, GPU, and custom product line through the entirety of the product lifecycle.  Prior to his product management role, Ball was CVP and GM of platform engineering and architecture for Intel’s data center business.  Ball has also served as Co-GM of Intel’s foundry effort as a VP in the Technology and Manufacturing group and VP of the Client Computing Group including roles as GM of the desktop client business and as GM of global customer engineering.

Ball has a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering, all earned from Rice University.  He also holds six patents in high-speed electrical design.