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A Trio of Trackable Topics at OCP Summit
The OCP Summit is officially underway. As proud media sponsors, TechArena will cover all the biggest takeaways from the event - with a special focus on performance, power and cooling, and standards.
TechArena Data Center Compute Efficiency Report 2024
Check out TechArena’s Data Center Compute Efficiency Report 2024 to discover how AI-driven innovation is reshaping data centers, reducing power consumption, and driving efficient compute solutions.
You Can’t Have It All: Managing Expectations in Complex Projects
In this post, industry veteran Jim Fister highlights the importance of clear goals and managing expectations in tech projects, emphasizing the challenge of balancing schedule, features, and budget.
Don’t Skip Leg Day
Data center expert Lynn Comp explains how AI's data demands challenge networks to improve bandwidth, responsiveness, and security. Without these advancements, networks may struggle, like skipping leg day in weightlifting.
Voltron Data Unleashes Accelerator Native Performance at Scale
In this video, Voltron Data’s CEO and Co-Founder Josh Patterson explains how the Theseus engine boosts enterprise data systems with GPU acceleration, tackling large-scale analytics and data challenges at petabyte-scale.
How Security Tech has Evolved to Make Us Safer (or not) Since 9/11
In this blog, industry veteran Jim Fister reflects on the impact of technology, redundancy, and human bias on global security, especially after 9/11, highlighting both optimism and frustration.
Intel Showcases IT Strengths with Sapphire Rapids Delivery
TechArena’s take on Intel’s 4th Generation Xeon Processor launch (aka the arrival of Sapphire Rapids).
The TechArena Cloud 2023
TechArena Cloud 2023 delivers seven strategies for maximizing organizational return based on industry expert perspectives.
The super-sized future is here with AMD’s Instinct MI300
TechArena’s take on AMD’s recent reveal of their Instinct MI300 expected in market later this year and the inflection point towards super-sized chiplet designs.
Oh What a Fine Mess We’ve Made: The State of Cloud Automation
Thoughts on the state of cloud stack management and automation with the rise of cloud management complexity.
Cloud Computing at a quarter century
As we reach the 25th anniversary of cloud computing we set off to see what technology innovations will shape the next wave of cloud computing adoption.
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Podcasts
CXL Enabled Memory Innovation with Memverge
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Memverge founder and CEO Charles Fan about his company’s disruptive vision for breaking through data center memory limitations and what the CXL standard will bring to infrastructure innovation.
Breakthrough Data Center Platform Innovation with AMD
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with AMD senior fellow and CXL technical taskforce co-chair Mahesh Wagh regarding AMD’s entry of CXL platforms into the market gen 4 AMD EYPC processors and his organization’s strategy to deliver disruptive innovation utilizing CXL capability in the years ahead.
UCIe Unleashing Chiplet Innovation with NVIDIA
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with NVIDIA Data Center Product Architect and Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express organization board member Durgesh Srivastava about the new UCIe specification and how it will reshape the foundations of compute architectures.
Bespoke Cloud Services with Bev Crair
TechArena host talks with Bev Crair, Senior Vice President of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute about her team’s delivery of bespoke services and efforts to simplify multi-cloud adoption.
The Battle for Multi-Cloud Security
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Checkpoint Software's TJ Gonen about the state of cloud security and how security solutions must start with a developer lens
The Rising Demands on Cloud Infrastructure
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Cloudflare infrastructure VP and Open Compute Board Chair Rebecca Weekly about the rising demands on cloud infrastructure across performance, design modularity, and sustainability.
From OCP 2025: Arm’s Chiplet Push and the AI Ecosystem Play
Allyson Klein and co-host Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Arm’s Eddie Ramirez to unpack Arm Total Design’s growth, the FCSA chiplet spec contribution to OCP, a new board seat, and how storage fits AI’s surge.
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.
PEAK:AIO on Smarter Storage for AI—Data Insights @ OCP
From OCP San Jose, PEAK:AIO’s Roger Cummings explains how workload-aware file systems, richer memory tiers, and capturing intelligence at the edge reduce cost and complexity.
CelLink PowerPlane: Flat Power for AI Server Racks
Innovative power delivery unlocks a shift in data-center design. CelLink PowerPlane routes thousands of amps in a flat, flexible circuit—cutting cabling and accelerating AI factory builds.
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.
