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Cloud-Native 2025 by the Numbers: The Developer Tent Just Got Bigger
CNCF + SlashData’s latest report counts 15.6M cloud-native developers as IDPs pull backend teams into the fold; hybrid + multi-cloud rise with AI demand while inference stacks + agentic frameworks coalesce.
MLPerf Training v5.1: GenAI Drives, Scale Ramps, Field Widens
Two new genAI tests (Llama 3.1 8B, Flux.1) align with production stacks as multi-node results climb. NVIDIA posts many fastest times; University of Florida, Wiwynn, and Datacrunch expand the ecosystem.
Wanjiku Kamau on Her Book: Out of the Loop, Into the Algorithm
Allyson Klein talks with author and Google/Intel alum Wanjiku Kamau on moving past AI skepticism, learning fast, and using new tools with intention—so readers start where they are and explore AI with hope.
Cooling the Future: Where Does Cold Plate End and Immersion Begin?
AI racks are blowing past air’s limits. Here’s a frank framework for when cold plate still wins, when it fails, and how to plan the pivot to immersion—without stranding today’s investments.
KubeCon Atlanta: CNCF Sets AI Standard for Kubernetes
On Day 1 of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Atlanta, CNCF unveiled Kubernetes AI Conformance to make workloads portable—arriving as inference surges to ~1.33 quadrillion tokens/month across Google’s systems.
How Financial Services Can Responsibly Scale AI
FinTech expert Anusha Nerella shares insights on staying ahead of fraud, navigating regulation, and building collaborative teams to scale responsible AI across the financial services sector.
VDURA Debuts V-ScaleFlow Tech, Cuts AI Storage Costs 60%
Updated data platform combines hyperscale capacity with reduced flash requirements while adding native Kubernetes support and end-to-end encryption for enterprise customers.
Google's AI Ultra Plan Promises Creative Superpowers – For a Price
Google launches AI Ultra, a $249.99/month plan bundling its top AI tools – but the high price and full-stack consolidation raise questions about accessibility and hyperscaler ecosystem lock-in.
Start-Ups Stake Their Claim in Humanoid Robot Rush
As tech giants and nations race for dominance, agile innovators focus on human needs to redefine the future of human-robot relationships.
Understanding Agentic AI and Multi-Agent Systems
From self-organizing drones to software managing supply chains, agentic AI is creating systems that are reshaping industries. We break down the latest developments and what you can do to prepare.
Scaling Data Center Infrastructure for AI
Industry experts from Avayla, Perpetual Intelligence and the Liquid Cooling Coalition discuss liquid cooling, thermal design, and policy blind spots as rack power for AI workloads surges past 600kW.
VAST Data Launches AI Operating System
VAST Data unveils a unified AI Operating System built to run agentic workloads at scale – combining data, compute, and orchestration into a single platform for the era of the thinking machine.
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Podcasts
How Hedgehog Brings Hyperscaler Networking to Enterprise AI
Hedgehog CEO Marc Austin joins Data Insights to break down open-source, automated networking for AI clusters—cutting cost, avoiding lock-in, and keeping GPUs fed from training to inference.
Nebius at SC25: Building the Neocloud for Enterprise AI
From SC25 in St. Louis, Nebius shares how its neocloud, Token Factory PaaS, and supercomputer-class infrastructure are reshaping AI workloads, enterprise adoption, and efficiency at hyperscale.
Inside Runpod’s GPU Cloud for Long-Running AI Agents
Runpod head of engineering Brennen Smith joins a Data Insights episode to unpack GPU-dense clouds, hidden storage bottlenecks, and a “universal orchestrator” for long-running AI agents at scale.
Walmart and Cornelis Expose the Costs of Network Inefficiency
Billions of customer interactions during peak seasons expose critical network bottlenecks, which is why critical infrastructure decisions must happen before you write a single line of code.
Giga Computing on Rack-Scale AI: From Training to Inference
Recorded at #OCPSummit25, Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Giga Computing’s Chen Lee to unpack GIGAPOD and GPM, DLC/immersion cooling, regional assembly, and the pivot to inference.
Data Insights at OCP: DataraAI on Edge Robotics
Durgesh Srivastava unpacks a data-loop approach that powers reliable edge inference, captures anomalies, and encodes technician know-how so robots weld, inspect, and recover like seasoned operators.
How Hedgehog Brings Hyperscaler Networking to Enterprise AI
Hedgehog CEO Marc Austin joins Data Insights to break down open-source, automated networking for AI clusters—cutting cost, avoiding lock-in, and keeping GPUs fed from training to inference.
Nebius at SC25: Building the Neocloud for Enterprise AI
From SC25 in St. Louis, Nebius shares how its neocloud, Token Factory PaaS, and supercomputer-class infrastructure are reshaping AI workloads, enterprise adoption, and efficiency at hyperscale.
Inside Runpod’s GPU Cloud for Long-Running AI Agents
Runpod head of engineering Brennen Smith joins a Data Insights episode to unpack GPU-dense clouds, hidden storage bottlenecks, and a “universal orchestrator” for long-running AI agents at scale.
Walmart and Cornelis Expose the Costs of Network Inefficiency
Billions of customer interactions during peak seasons expose critical network bottlenecks, which is why critical infrastructure decisions must happen before you write a single line of code.
Giga Computing on Rack-Scale AI: From Training to Inference
Recorded at #OCPSummit25, Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Giga Computing’s Chen Lee to unpack GIGAPOD and GPM, DLC/immersion cooling, regional assembly, and the pivot to inference.
Data Insights at OCP: DataraAI on Edge Robotics
Durgesh Srivastava unpacks a data-loop approach that powers reliable edge inference, captures anomalies, and encodes technician know-how so robots weld, inspect, and recover like seasoned operators.
