I’m fresh off my flight back from scenic China and feeling jazzed about the customers and partners I met there at the  AMD Embedded Solutions group’s annual China Embedded Forum (CEF).

Open.  Open Stack.  Open Cloud.  Open Compute…  Seems to be on a lot of IT executives’ minds these days.

As budgets remain tough, and operational efficiency are top of mind, many industry leaders are focusing on open strategies to create optimal private clouds within their enterprises.

AMD is leading the initiatives in many of these open areas, and it’s all about contributing our expertise to create industry collaboration.  We believe that collaboration drives innovation.

Growing up as a diehard baseball fan in the 1980s, every morning starting in April running through October, I would grab the newspaper and dive into the box score page. Why? Because I was a kid living in Phoenix and following a baseball team that was not in my market. My team was not on TV or radio in Phoenix during this era, which was well before the days of small satellite dishes that would ultimately enable fans to watch their favorite out-of-market teams.

AMD has always supported the Open Compute Project and at the most recent summit last month; we revealed our “roadrunner” motherboard specifically designed to meet the general purpose compute, cloud infrastructure, high-performance compute and storage needs of the financial services industry. Most recently, I sat down with Pete Harris of Low-Latency.com to give him a little more insight on “roadrunner” and AMD’s financial services strategy.