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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.
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.
Arm vs. RISC-V: Same DNA, Different Flight Paths
A 2025 field guide for architects: why Arm’s software gravity and hyperscaler adoption make it the low-friction path today, where RISC-V is gaining ground, and the curveballs that could reshape both.
Srija Reddy Allam: Innovation Is Progress Over Perfection
The cloud security architect who came from networking explains her framework for separating tech hype from genuine innovation, and why stepping away is key to solving hard problems.
How Equinix & Solidigm See Evolving Workloads Reshaping IT
Industry leaders reveal why data-centric, change-ready data center architectures will determine who thrives in the age of unpredictable AI advancements.
AI Is Squeezing Storage Supply—and VAST Wants Your Flash
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.
RackRenew Turns Decommissioned OCP Hardware into Ready Capacity
RackRenew remanufactures OCP compliant-infrastructure into certified, warranty-backed assemblies—standardized, tested, and ready to deploy for faster capacity without bespoke engineering.
5 Data Infrastructure Shifts That Will Define Enterprise AI in 2026
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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Podcasts
How Rose-Hulman Modernized Its Data Center for Student Success
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.
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.
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.
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.
How Rose-Hulman Modernized Its Data Center for Student Success
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.
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.
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.
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.
