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Life’s Only Constant is Change: Impacts of the VMware Acquisition
Former VMware Product Marketing Manager Gina Rosenthal examines Broadcom's $69B VMware acquisition, highlighting drastic pricing changes, SKU cuts, workforce reductions, and new opportunities for competitors in virtualization.
Robots That Play Music By Ear & Other Highlights from SC24
TechArena Editorial Director Rachel Horton covers highlights from SC24, including Georgia Tech’s robot xylophonist, leaps in quantum computing, and NASA’s exploration of the cosmos.
VAST Data Showcases an AI Hall of Fame at SC24
This blog explores VAST Data’s showcase of its Data Platform, powering breakthroughs at XAI, CoreWeave, and Harvard Medical School, and driving innovation in training, inference, and scientific discovery.
How Ocient is Revolutionizing Data Warehousing for AI
Discover how Ocient’s innovative architecture boosts data efficiency, reduces costs, and supports AI-intensive workloads while prioritizing sustainability in the data warehousing industry.
JetCool Tackles AI’s Power Demands with Precision Cooling
JetCool's innovative liquid cooling targets hotspots directly, supporting AI's growing power needs while enhancing sustainability through efficient heat reuse and scalable solutions for data centers.
CoolIT: Leading the Pack on Liquid Cooling
CoolIT Systems is driving efficiency and performance for AI in data centers with cutting-edge liquid cooling solutions.
AI Is Squeezing Storage Supply—and VAST Wants Your Flash
AI demand is tightening HDD and NAND supply—and prices may follow. VAST is betting on flash reclamation and KV-cache persistence as storage starts acting more like memory.
RackRenew Turns Decommissioned OCP Hardware into Ready Capacity
RackRenew remanufactures OCP compliant-infrastructure into certified, warranty-backed assemblies—standardized, tested, and ready to deploy for faster capacity without bespoke engineering.
5 Data Infrastructure Shifts That Will Define Enterprise AI in 2026
These data-infrastructure shifts will determine which enterprises scale AI in 2026, from real-time context and agentic guardrails to governance, efficiency, and a more resilient data foundation.
OCP 2025: Arm’s Chiplet Play Aims To Democratize AI Compute
Arm’s OCP board seat and new FCSA spec push chiplet interoperability from idea to implementation—enabling mix-and-match silicon and smarter storage so teams can build AI without hyperscaler budgets.
Achieving HPC Performance with Xeon 6 Processors
Xeon 6 marries P-cores, E-cores, and scalable memory to feed data-hungry HPC workloads, eliminating bandwidth bottlenecks so spectral sims and other memory-bound codes can finally scale.
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Podcasts
Ampere Advances in the Data Center with Jeff Wittich
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Ampere Chief Product Officer Jeff Wittich about his company’s progress in winning data center deployments, advances in performance and sustainability, and pushing the limits on core density.
Security in the AI Era with Fortinet’s Srija Allam and Julian Petersohn
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Fortinet security experts Srija Allam and Julian Petersohn about the expansive Fortinet solution portfolio and how the company is leaning into AI to help deliver the protection customers require.
Delivery of the CXL Vision with the CXL Consortium's Kurtis Bowman and Kurt Lender
TechArena host Allyson Klein sits down with the marketing co-chairs of the CXL Consortium at SC’23 to discuss the introduction of the new 3.1 spec, the emergence of true CXL 2.0 solutions, and what comes next from this disruptive standard that will re-define data center infrastructure.
Efficient and Secure Data Center Computing with AMD's Robert Hormuth and Prabhu Jayanna
TechArena host Allyson Klein sat down with AMD’s Robert Hormuth and Prabhu Jayanna at the Open Compute Summit to discuss the advancements AMD EPYC processors have delivered in performance, performance efficiency and security capability including AMD’s Infinity Guard technology.
The Quest for Broad Data Center Advancement with Arm’s Eddie Ramirez
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Arm’s Eddie Ramirez at the Open Compute Summit about the architecture’s progress in data center, growing a thriving ecosystem, and the sustainability advantages of Arm’s design making it even more attractive to data center operators.
Storage Innovation in the AI Era with Solidigm’s Roger Corell and Tahmid Rahman
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Solidigm’s Roger Corell and Tahmid Rahman at the OCP Summit about their company’s heritage in the storage arena and how their SSD portfolio delivers the performance and efficiency required for the AI era.
How Rose-Hulman Modernized Its Data Center for Student Success
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology shares how Azure Local, AVD, and GPU-powered infrastructure are transforming IT operations and enabling device-agnostic access to high-performance engineering software.
RackRenew & Circularity: Remanufacture, Recertify, Redeploy
From #OCPSummit25, this Data Insights episode unpacks how RackRenew remanufactures OCP-compliant racks, servers, networking, power, and storage—turning hyperscaler discards into ready-to-deploy capacity.
Immersion, Not Hype: Midas on Liquid Cooling at OCP
Midas Immersion Cooling CEO Scott Sickmiller joins a Data Insights episode at OCP 2025 to demystify single-phase immersion, natural vs. forced convection, and what it takes to do liquid cooling at AI scale.
Castrol on Liquid Cooling: Additives, Filters, Failure Modes
From hyperscale direct-to-chip to micron-level realities: Darren Burgess (Castrol) explains dielectric fluids, additive packs, particle risks, and how OCP standards keep large deployments on track.
Hybrid Quantum + HPC: CESQ’s Lesya Dymyd at OCP 2025
Recorded live at OCP in San Jose, Allyson Klein talks with CESQ’s Lesya Dymyd about hybrid quantum-classical computing, the new Maison du Quantique, and how real-world use cases may emerge over the next 5–7 years.
