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The Future of VMware: Going Down the Rabbit Hole at VMware Explore 2023
Allyson Klein goes down the rabbit hole of Broadcom’s pending acquisition of VMWare and posits that NSX may be the jewel of the VMWare portfolio.
The Future of Silicon Innovation in the Chiplet Era
TechArena’s take on Alphawave Semi and how Letizia Guiliano and her team are poised to win in the chiplet era
MemCon and the Path Forward with Memory in a Post Moore’s Law World
TechArena’s take on the path to memory innovation from MemCon
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.
Announcing TechArena’s 2025–2026 Voices of Innovation Fellows
Experts from across the compute industry provide their bold views and real-world expertise on AI era computing is driving business and societal opportunity.
5 Fast Facts: Vigilent’s AI for Cooling Plant Optimization
Leading up to Yotta 2025, we discussed compute efficiency with Cliff Federspiel of Vigilent, which is pioneering the use of IoT and AI to deliver dynamic cooling management in mission-critical environments.
Inside Entertainment’s Storage Revolution with Dell Technologies
From feeding data-hungry GPUs to enabling real-time on-set visual effects, flash storage has evolved from luxury to necessity in modern content creation pipelines.
HPE Discover: SSDs Are Rewriting Enterprise Storage
Surveying 250 IT pros, we found 29% already run SSDs beyond performance tiers, 81% would migrate when TCO wins, and storage innovation is a top lever to free power and space across the data center.
TechArena’s ‘In the Arena’ Podcast Wins a Stevie® Award
Our flagship podcast earned a Stevie® in the International Business Awards® annual competition; judges called out the show’s high production quality, editorial clarity, and guest caliber.
FMS 2025: Honoring Jim Pappas, Driving AI Innovation
FMS 2025 celebrated Jim Pappas’ lifetime of standards leadership while showcasing how AI is reshaping memory and storage with record-breaking innovation across the industry.
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Podcasts
Nebius at SC25: Building the Neocloud for Enterprise AI
From SC25 in St. Louis, Nebius shares how its neocloud, Token Factory PaaS, and supercomputer-class infrastructure are reshaping AI workloads, enterprise adoption, and efficiency at hyperscale.
Giga Computing on Rack-Scale AI: From Training to Inference
Recorded at #OCPSummit25, Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Giga Computing’s Chen Lee to unpack GIGAPOD and GPM, DLC/immersion cooling, regional assembly, and the pivot to inference.
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.
Nebius at SC25: Building the Neocloud for Enterprise AI
From SC25 in St. Louis, Nebius shares how its neocloud, Token Factory PaaS, and supercomputer-class infrastructure are reshaping AI workloads, enterprise adoption, and efficiency at hyperscale.
Giga Computing on Rack-Scale AI: From Training to Inference
Recorded at #OCPSummit25, Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Giga Computing’s Chen Lee to unpack GIGAPOD and GPM, DLC/immersion cooling, regional assembly, and the pivot to inference.
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.
