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Anil Rao

Anil Rao

VP & GM, Systems Architecture & Engineering, Intel

Santa Clara, California
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Summary

Leader in confidential computing and data-in-use protection: Rao has driven Intel's confidential computing strategy and commercialization efforts (including SGX, TDX and the attestation/verification service known as Intel Trust Authority/Project Amber), advocating for independent attestation and stronger cloud-to-edge data protection. intel+3
Systems architect across cloud-to-edge and heterogeneous platforms: His role at Intel centers on systems architecture and engineering spanning cloud, edge and client security, heterogeneous compute, disaggregation and containerized approaches, and emerging AI workloads (Graph and Sparse AI). darkreading+2
Experienced entrepreneur and product leader with data center focus: Rao co-founded SeaMicro in 2007 to build energy-efficient converged data center solutions, remained active in product leadership after the company's acquisition, and later held senior product and advisory roles before joining Intel. wikipedia+1
Inventor with multiple patents in networking and visibility technologies: Rao is named on patents for distributed visibility fabrics, attestation/attestation-as-a-service concepts, packet deduplication, service chaining and related network and data-center technologies. justia+1

Work

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Rising to the Challenge — Data Security with Intel Confidential Computing

January 1, 2022

An overview of Intel's confidential computing work, explaining how Intel SGX protects data in-use, use cases across industries (healthcare, financial services, insurance, government, retail), and how confidential computing enables multi-party collaboration while preserving privacy.

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US10892941B2 — Distributed visibility fabrics for private, public, and hybrid clouds

January 1, 2021

Patent describing techniques for improving network visibility by deriving network traffic information from numerous visibility platforms communicatively coupled into a distributed visibility fabric, enabling intelligent distribution of network objects among visibility appliances.

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Anil Rao — Patents and patent applications (inventor listing)

A collection/listing of patents and patent applications credited to Anil Rao across networking, visibility, attestation-as-a-service, service chaining, edge acceleration and related technologies.

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