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Mid-Year Report: AI Spending Soars as Data Centers Face Heat
Matty Bakkeren checks in on how data center trends are playing out in 2025, from nations pouring billions into AI supremacy projects to how data centers are trying to offset massive energy needs.
Platform9 and Commvault Partner on Private Cloud Protection
New integration delivers enterprise-grade backup, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience for virtualized and container-based workloads across Platform9’s Private Cloud Director.
TechArena's Allyson Klein: Silicon Valley Kid to Tech Storyteller
From childhood gaming consoles to guiding Intel’s message to market, Allyson Klein has spent decades proving that the best tech stories happen when engineers feel invited to share what they’ve created.
Qumulo Showcases Cloud Data Fabric Innovation
At Cloud Field Day 23, Qumulo showcased its cloud data fabric, unifying hybrid environments and solving real-world challenges in media, pharma, public safety, and more with strict data consistency.
HPE Greenlake Paves a Path to a Hybrid SAP ERP Future
A solution from HPE and SAP aims to simplify SAP Cloud ERP adoption with managed private cloud, ecosystem integration, and AI agents for enterprise transformation.
Scality Showcases Real-World Resilient Cloud Storage Solutions
At Cloud Field Day 23, Scality highlighted real-world deployments that tackle petabyte-scale challenges with resilience, flexibility, and customer-driven innovation.
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.
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.
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Podcasts
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.
How Flex Manages Power, Heat and Scale in the AI Era: Part 1
Rob Campbell of Flex discusses how Flex is driving data center transformation with cutting-edge solutions like liquid cooling, AI-ready infrastructure, and vertical integration for global hyperscalers.
CircleB: Optimizing Data Centers for AI Workloads
Tune in as Jason Maselino of Circle B discusses the role of Open Compute Project in revolutionizing data centers with energy-efficient solutions, modular designs, and AI-ready infrastructure.
Scaling Innovation: How MIPS Balances Performance with Flexibility in a Data-Driven World
MIPS CTO Durgesh Srivastava shares insights on AI, data centers, automotive edge, and how MIPS is leveraging RISC-V to drive efficient, flexible computing solutions.
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.
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.
