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Qualcomm to Acquire Alphawave Semi for $2.4B in Data Center Push
The deal marks a strategic move to bolster Qualcomm’s AI and custom silicon capabilities amid challenging competition and the potential start of a wave of AI silicon acquisitions.
WEKA and Nebius Unite to Supercharge AI Workloads with GPUaaS Powerhouse
A new partnership combines WEKA’s AI-native storage with Nebius’ GPUaaS platform to accelerate model training, inference, and innovation with microsecond latency and extreme scalability.
AMD Doubles Down on Inference Efficiency with New Acquisitions
As the battle for AI market share continues, AMD’s recent acquisitions signal a strategic move toward optimizing both software and hardware for inference workloads and real-world AI deployment.
OpsRamp Shows Unified IT Operations for Fast Incident Management
The HPE-owned platform combines unified observability, smart alert correlation, and automation to tackle hybrid IT complexity while also working with existing monitoring tools.
MinIO Redefines Object Storage Architecture for Exabyte Scale
AIStor’s stateless, gateway-free design solves legacy storage issues, enabling high-performance object-native infrastructure for exabyte-scale AI and analytics workloads.
TechArena Great Debate: Google Talks OCP LOCK and Open Standards
Amber Huffman and Jeff Andersen of Google join Allyson Klein to discuss the roadmap for OCP LOCK, post-quantum security, and how open ecosystems accelerate hardware trust and vendor adoption.
VAST Partners with Deloitte to Scale AI for the Enterprise
At GTC 2025, a discussion between Deloitte and VAST showed how their partnership is scaling enterprise AI with secure, auditable infrastructure—bringing business value for next-gen, agentic AI adoption.
Verge.io Reimagines IT Infrastructure for AI Demands
Verge.io’s George Crump shares how a unified infrastructure approach is driving efficiency, performance, and AI-readiness — without the legacy bloat.
Nebius and VAST Data Combine Breakthrough Tech for AI Innovation
At GTC 2025, Nebius and VAST shared how their collaboration delivers high-performance, scalable AI infrastructure for enterprise workloads—making cloud AI more usable and accessible.
AI Benchmarks Shift as MLPerf Highlights LLM Dominance
MLPerf Inference 5.0 signals the rise of large language models, with LLAMA 2 70B surpassing ResNet-50 in submissions and driving next-gen AI performance across compute platforms.
Edge AI Silicon Heats Up as MemryX Closes $44M Series B
MemryX, a provider of edge AI acceleration hardware, recently closed its latest round of funding, serving as a potential bellwether for the next growth edge in AI compute.
Unpacking The AI Data Factory – A Storage Perspective
From VAST Data to Weka, Graid to Solidigm — storage disruptors shined bright at NVIDIA GTC 2025. Here’s how storage innovators are redefining AI infrastructure and why it matters to the future of AI.
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Podcasts
MLCommons’ David Kanter on Benchmarking AI, Accelerating Innovation
David Kanter discusses MLCommons' role in setting benchmarks for AI performance, fostering industry-wide collaboration, and driving advancements in machine learning capabilities.
OCP Insights with Scott Shadley: AI, Collaboration & Storage
Join Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski in this episode of Data Insights as they discuss key takeaways from the 2024 OCP Summit with Scott Shadley, focusing on AI advancements and storage innovations.
Inside AMD’s Vision for AI and Data Center Evolution
In this episode of Data Insights by Solidigm, Ravi Kuppuswamy of AMD unpacks the company’s innovations in data center computing and how they adapt to AI demands while supporting traditional workloads.
Exploring AI Innovations: Chen Lee of Gigabyte at OCP Summit
Join host Allyson Klein and co-host Jeniece Wnorowski in this episode of Data Insights as they chat with Gigabyte's Chen Lee about AI innovations and the future of server technology at OCP Summit.
Google Cloud’s Amber Huffman on AI, OCP & Future Innovations
Live from OCP Summit, Google Cloud’s Amber Huffman shares insights on AI's future, open standards, and innovation, discussing her journey, data center advancements, and the role of collaboration at OCP.
Ocient: Revolutionizing Data Warehousing for AI Workloads
Live from OCP Summit 2024, this Data Insights podcast explores how Ocient’s innovative platform is optimizing compute-intensive data workloads, delivering efficiency, cost savings, and sustainability.
How Axelera Scales Inference From Edge to Data Center
In the Arena: Allyson Klein with Axelera CMO Alexis Crowell on inference-first AI silicon, a customer-driven SDK, and what recent tapeouts reveal about the roadmap.
Data Insights: AI in Healthcare with Dr. Rohith Vangalla
In this episode of Data Insights, host Allyson Klein and co-host Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Dr. Rohith Vangalla of Optum to discuss the future of AI in healthcare.
Metrum AI’s Steen Graham on Multi-Agent AI and Smarter Storage
From OCP Summit, Metrum AI CEO Steen Graham unpacks multi-agent infrastructure, SSD-accelerated RAG, and the memory-to-storage shift—plus a 2026 roadmap to boost GPU utilization, uptime, and time-to-value.
AI in Finance: Governance, Compliance, and Innovation
Anusha Nerella joins hosts Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski to explore responsible AI in financial services, emphasizing compliance, collaboration, and ROI-driven adoption strategies.
Cerebras Scales Real-Time AI with Wafer-Scale Innovation
At AI Infra Summit, CTO Sean Lie shares how Cerebras is delivering instant inference, scaling cloud and on-prem systems, and pushing reasoning models into the open-source community.
AI, Flash, and Data Protection: Scality’s Vision with Paul Speciale
Scality CMO Paul Speciale joins Data Insights to discuss the future of storage—AI-driven resilience, the rise of all-flash deployments, and why object storage is becoming central to enterprise strategy.
