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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.
Flex Demonstrates Leadership with Acquisition of JetCool
Flex strengthens its direct liquid cooling portfolio with its acquisition of JetCool, adding their MIT-developed tech to Flex’s broad offerings across power, cooling and data center infrastructure.
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.
Xinnor Reinvents RAID for the Era of AI-Driven Data Centers
Traditional data protection becomes the bottleneck when GPU idle time costs millions. Joint testing with Solidigm shows how next-generation solutions maintain full speed during drive failures.
CFD24: HPE Bets on a “Cool-Again” Private Cloud Strategy
From provisioning to observability to protection, HPE’s expanding cloud software suite targets the repatriation wave.
When AI is a Bad Actor's Best Friend: Fortinet at CFD24
LLMs have given attackers new angles. Fortinet showed, step by step, how AI-driven probes escalate—and how FortiGate, FortiWeb, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiSOAR close the door without slowing the business.
5 Ways To Keep GPUs Fed—Hard-Won Lessons From Our AI Factory Panel
From racks and liquid loops to data placement and standards pace, five takeaways from CoreWeave, Dell, NVIDIA, Solidigm, and VAST Data on building AI factories that keep accelerators busy and dollars well-spent.
CFD24: Oxide Delivers Couture Hyperscale Infra for the Enterprise
At Cloud Field Day 24, Oxide outlines a vertically integrated rack—custom hypervisor, integrated power/network, and open integrations—aimed at bringing hyperscale efficiency and faster deploys to enterprise DCs.
Pure Storage Offers Prompt-Based Control, Smooth Infra Management
Presenting at Cloud Field Day 24, Pure pitched fleet-level automation across mixed environments as the antidote to storage silos, promising one control plane for legacy systems and modern workloads.
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Podcasts
Exploring the Birth of the Universe with the NASA Webb Telescope
TechArena host Allyson Klein sits down with NASA’s Matt Greenhouse to discuss the Webb telescope project, a mission he has been working on for decades, and how it will shape our understanding of the birth of the universe, exoplanets, and potentially life beyond Earth.
Scalable, Open-Source Authorization with Cerbos
TechArena host Allyson Klein talks with Cerbos co-founder and CEO Emre Baran of the importance of authorization solutions and why he founded Cerbos to deliver scalable code that developers can seamlessly integrate into cloud native applications.
Disruptive Security Advancement with VectorZero
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with VectorZero CTO and co-founder Sean Grimaldi about his extensive experience fighting bad actors to protect the nation’s security and how his learning at the CIA has informed his approach to elimination of attack vectors at VectorZero.
Observability in the Era of Distributed Computing with cPacket Networks
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with cPacket Networks CTO Ron Nevo about how observability has evolved for a multi-cloud to edge era and why his company is delivering four key components of observability solutions to customers.
Phoenix Rising: The Future of CPU Innovation with AMD
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with AMD's Lynn Comp about the changing landscape of CPU design and how AMD is poised to lead future innovation.
Data Center Innovation with OCP
TechArena host Allyson Klein chat’s with OCP’s VP of Market Intelligence and Innovation, Cliff Grossner, about the challenges facing data center innovation and how OCP has transformed to drive deeper partnerships with the industry and broaden its impact on data center innovation.
OCP, Power Grids & Open Racks — with Dr. Andrew Chien
From OCP Summit San Jose, Allyson Klein and co-host Jeniece Wnorowski interview Dr. Andrew Chien (UChicago & Argonne) on grid interconnects, rack-scale standards, and how openness speeds innovation.
Flex at OCP: Chris Butler on Breaking the IT–Power Wall
From the OCP Global Summit in San Jose, Allyson Klein sits down with Chris Butler of Flex to unpack how the company is collapsing the gap between IT and power—literally and figuratively.
Kelley Mullick of Avayla on Rack-Scale Design & Hybrid Cooling
From OCP Summit 2025, Kelley Mullick joins Allyson Klein and co-host Jeniece Wnorowski for a Data Insights episode on rack-scale design, hybrid cooling (incl. immersion heat recapture), and open standards.
Momenthesis’ Matty Bakkeren: ‘We Need to Keep Open Open’
At OCP’s 2025 global summit, Momenthesis founder Matty Bakkeren joins Allyson Klein to explore why open standards and interoperability are vital to sustaining AI innovation at datacenter scale.
AMI on Open Firmware for the AI-Native Data Center
AMI CEO Sanjoy Maity joins In the Arena to unpack the company's shift to open source firmware, OCP contributions, OpenBMC hardening, and the rack-scale future—cooling, power, telemetry, and RAS built for AI.
With Intel News, Graid Expands Quest to Deliver World-Class RAID
Graid Technology takes on Intel VROC licensing for data center and workstation customers, extending its RAID portfolio to offer both CPU-integrated and GPU-accelerated solutions.
