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Dog Days of Summer – Looking forward to OCP Summit
The upcoming OCP Summit in October will feature nineteen top-tier sponsors, up from just three in previous years, highlighting OCP’s role in AI infrastructure innovation. TechArena is excited to be a media sponsor, covering sustainable infrastructure, Sonic’s future, memory advancements, and power and cooling solutions with daily podcasts, video interviews, and stories.
It’s Gettin’ Hot in Here: Industry veteran Jim Fister unpacks the history of the data center
In this blog post, industry veteran Jim Fister explores the evolution of data centers from early 2000s servers to modern AI/ML racks. Highlighting engineering and logistical challenges, he emphasizes the need for ongoing innovation and celebrates engineers while anticipating future advancements to meet increasing power demands.
The State of Open Compute Infrastructure Innovation
TechArena spoke to over a dozen industry experts from OVH, Qarnot, PLVision, ZeroPoint Technologies, the Research Institutes of Sweden, London South Bank University, and the Open Compute Project to publish this comprehensive report on the state of open compute infrastructure innovation and how organizations should align data center planning and oversight with sustainability and performance objectives. If you manage an IT organization or oversee data center infrastructure, software, or sustainability initiatives, this report offers practical value for your organization.
Microsoft and AMD Extend AI Collaboration at Build
TechArena’s take on Microsoft Build announcement of the world’s first MI300X instances arriving on Azure AI.
Supermicro Leverages Its Heritage of Innovation to Fuel AI Era Compute
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.
A Revolution of Open Infrastructure in Lisbon at OCP Regional Summit
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.
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
JetCool's Innovative Liquid Cooling Tech Powers High-Performance AI
JetCool Founder & CEO Bernie Malouin discusses the company’s breakthrough liquid cooling tech, which targets processor hotspots with jets of coolant to boost efficiency across intensive workloads.
CoolIT: Revolutionizing Data Centers with Liquid Cooling Tech
Learn how CoolIT Systems is driving efficiency and performance in AI and data centers with cutting-edge liquid cooling solutions in our latest Data Insights podcast.
GEICO’s Rebecca Weekly on IT Transformation and OCP Innovation
In this episode, Rebecca Weekly shares how GEICO is rethinking cloud strategy and embracing OCP for improved efficiency, security, and cost savings in its infrastructure journey.
Data Insights: Arm’s Eddie Ramirez on Data Center Innovations
Join Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski as they chat with Eddie Ramirez from Arm about how chiplet innovations and compute efficiency are driving AI and transforming data center architecture.
From Desktops to Data Centers: Zane Ball on Silicon Innovation
In this episode – recorded live at the OCP Summit – host Allyson Klein catches up with Intel Corporate VP Zane Ball to discuss silicon innovation, AI evolution, and the future of enterprise adoption.
How Flex Manages Power, Heat and Scale in the AI Era: Part 2
Join us as Rob Campbell from Flex discusses the challenges and innovations in data centers, focusing on power, heat, and scale, while shaping the future of AI and sustainable solutions.
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.
Ventiva Brings Innovative Solid-State Cooling to the AI Data Center
CEO Carl Schlachte joins TechArena at OCP Summit to share how Ventiva’s solid-state cooling—proven in dense laptops—scales to servers, cutting noise, complexity and power while speeding deployment.
