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Microsoft and AMD Extend AI Collaboration at Build

May 22, 2024

TechArena’s take on Microsoft Build announcement of the world’s first MI300X instances arriving on Azure AI.

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Supermicro Leverages Its Heritage of Innovation to Fuel AI Era Compute

May 15, 2024

TechArena’s take on a recent Data Insights conversation featuring Supermicro and Solidigm on how Supermicro’s solutions are targeting AI data pipeline requirements and the role SSDs play in delivering high performance, efficiency and density for Supermicro solutions.

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A Revolution of Open Infrastructure in Lisbon at OCP Regional Summit

April 23, 2024

We kick off this week’s reporting from Open Compute Project’s Regional Summit in Lisbon with some thoughts on historic innovation and how it shapes society.

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Delivering AI Performance at Scale with CoreWeave

April 15, 2024

The TechArena’s reflection on the disruptive innovation that CoreWeave is driving into the AI service arena fueled by Solidigm QLC NAND and VAST Data platform innovation.

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VAST Data Soars with Industry Heavyweights

March 12, 2024

VAST Data reveals more of their AI strategy with collaboration announcements with NVIDIA and Supermicro.

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VAST Data Upends Storage in the AI Era

February 22, 2024

TechArena’s take on VAST Data from AI Field Day and how TechArena readers can expect to hear a lot more from the company in the months ahead.

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Why Does AI Need a Wider Rack?

January 29, 2026

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AI Is Squeezing Storage Supply—and VAST Wants Your Flash

January 13, 2026

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.

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RackRenew Turns Decommissioned OCP Hardware into Ready Capacity

December 19, 2025

RackRenew remanufactures OCP compliant-infrastructure into certified, warranty-backed assemblies—standardized, tested, and ready to deploy for faster capacity without bespoke engineering.

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5 Data Infrastructure Shifts That Will Define Enterprise AI in 2026

December 18, 2025

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.

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OCP 2025: Arm’s Chiplet Play Aims To Democratize AI Compute

December 3, 2025

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.

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Achieving HPC Performance with Xeon 6 Processors

November 17, 2025

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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Protecting Against Quantum Cybersecurity Threats with Winbond

January 21, 2025

In this In the Arena episode, Winbond’s Jun Kawaguchi discusses their industry-leading strategies for tackling next-gen cybersecurity threats, ensuring robust protection for the future.

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PCI-SIG’s Al Yanes on PCIe 7.0, HPC, and the Future of Interconnects

November 21, 2024

In this podcast, PCI-SIG President Al Yanes explores PCI-SIG's journey to PCIe 7.0, advancements in copper and optical specs, and their pivotal role in HPC and AI.

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Bill Gropp on the NCSA and the Future of Supercomputing Innovation

November 19, 2024

In this podcast, NCSA Director Bill Gropp explores the latest advanced computing trends, from AI innovations to groundbreaking research on supercomputing climate models, and how this tech is transforming science and society.

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Revolutionizing AI Workloads with Advanced Data Center Solutions

November 18, 2024

Discover how AI is transforming data centers, with innovations in high-speed networking, emulation, and hyperscale infrastructure driving efficiency and performance in the era of AI workloads.

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OCP Summit Recap: Innovation, Collaboration & Future Focus

November 1, 2024

OCP’s Rob Coyle shares insights on AI, cooling innovations, and open hardware’s role in transforming data centers as the industry accelerates toward scalable, sustainable infrastructure.

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AI’s Impact on OCP: Scaling Innovation and Infrastructure Growth

October 22, 2024

In this episode, OCP CEO George Tchaparian shares how OCP is driving AI infrastructure innovation, fostering collaboration, and tackling scalability, efficiency, and sustainability challenges in data centers and beyond.

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How Rose-Hulman Modernized Its Data Center for Student Success

January 8, 2026

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.

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RackRenew & Circularity: Remanufacture, Recertify, Redeploy

November 3, 2025

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.

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Immersion, Not Hype: Midas on Liquid Cooling at OCP

October 22, 2025

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.

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Castrol on Liquid Cooling: Additives, Filters, Failure Modes

October 21, 2025

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.

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Hybrid Quantum + HPC: CESQ’s Lesya Dymyd at OCP 2025

October 16, 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.

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