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VAST Data Soars with Industry Heavyweights
VAST Data reveals more of their AI strategy with collaboration announcements with NVIDIA and Supermicro.
VAST Data Upends Storage in the AI Era
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.
Arm Targets an Ecosystem for Growing Data Center Deployments
Arm is making headway in delivering an architecture alternative to the data center. Read TechArena’s take on their progress from technology enabling to building a true ecosystem for the workload requirements for the next decade.
One More Time with Feeling - the Ultra Ethernet OCP Collaboration
TechArena’s take on the Ultra Ethernet Consortium Open Compute Project collaboration announcement and what it means for AI clusters.
Cloud Field Day Report: WEKA Throws the Data Gauntlet
TechArena’s quick take on WEKA’s discussion from Cloud Field Day.
AMD Leaps Ahead with Zen Architecture Powered EYPC Processors for the Cloud
TechArena’s Cloud Field Day report on AMD’s strategy for cloud native computing.
A Guide to On-Premises and First-Party Cloud-Native Storage
What modern storage really means, how on-prem arrays compare to first-party cloud services, and a clear checklist to pick the right fit for cost, control, scalability, and resilience.
Cooling for the Gigawatt Era: JetCool’s Roadmap for AI Data Centers
As part of Flex, JetCool is scaling its microconvective cooling technology to help hyperscalers deploy next-gen systems faster, streamlining cooling deployments from server to rack in the AI era.
From Laptops to Data Center Racks: Ventiva’s Thermal Play at OCP
Ventiva discusses how hard-won laptop cooling know-how can unlock inside-the-box gains for AI servers and racks—stabilizing hotspots, preserving acoustics, and boosting performance.
GTC DC: NVIDIA’s Big Bets on AI Factories, DOE, and 6G
At GTC DC, NVIDIA outlined DOE-scale AI systems, debuted NVQLink to couple GPUs and quantum, partnered with Nokia on AI-RAN to 6G, mapped Uber robotaxis for 2027, and highlighted Synopsys’ GPU gains.
CelLink at OCP: 3 Key Takeaways for AI Factories
Design shifted to rack-scale. Power and cooling span the full path. Liquid is table stakes. Three takeaways from OCP 2025—and why CelLink’s PowerPlane fits an AI-factory mindset.
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.
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Podcasts
Disruptive Chiplet Innovation Delivers the Next Wave of Data Center Performance with Palo Alto Electron’s Jawad Nasrullah
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Palo Alto Electron CEO Jawad Nasrullah about his vision for an open chiplet economy, the semiconductor manufacturing hurdles standing in the way of broad chiplet market delivery, and how he plans to play a role in shaping this next evolution of the semiconductor landscape.
Accelerating European Data Center Buildout with OCP’s Raul Alvarez
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with OCP’s Raul Alvarez on his new charter accelerating growth of the data center market in Europe as well as his ongoing work in immersion cooling technologies from OCP Lisbon 2024.
Delivering a Sustainable Data Platform for the AI Era with Weka, Data Insights Series Sponsored by Solidigm
TechArena host Allyson Klein and Solidigm’s Jeniece Wnorowski chat with Weka’s Joel Kaufman, as he tours the Weka data platform and how the company’s innovation provides sustainable data management that scales for the AI era.
SONIC Network Innovation for the AI Era with PLVision’s Taras Chornyi
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with PLVision Director of Open Networking Solutions and Strategy, Taras Chornyi, about the progress of SONIC and open network infrastructure for the AI Era.
Riding the AI Data Pipeline with VAST Data, a Data Insights Series podcast with Solidigm
TechArena host Allyson Klein is joined by Solidigm’s Jeniece Wnorowski as they continue to explore rapid data innovation fueling today’s computing. In today’s episode, they chat with VAST Data’s Global VP of Engineering, Subramanian Kartik, as he describes how his team has delivered a breakthrough data platform for the AI Era.
Fostering the Cutting Edge of Data Center Innovation with OCP’s Lesya Dymyd
TechArena host Allyson Klein chat’s with OCP’s Lesya Dymyd about her work steering the organization’s future technologies symposium as well as her deep collaboration with European technology providers and operators delivering to the region’s unique market requirements.
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.
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.
