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8 Ways Power, Policy, & Public Trust will Reshape Data Centers
In Part 2 of Matty Bakkeren’s 2026 predictions series, he explores how regulation, sovereignty, and public trust will push data centers to behave more like utilities than tech projects.
OCP 2025: Arm’s Chiplet Play Aims To Democratize AI Compute
Arm’s OCP board seat and new FCSA spec push chiplet interoperability from idea to implementation—enabling mix-and-match silicon and smarter storage so teams can build AI without hyperscaler budgets.
Inside SC25: AI Factories From Racks to Qubits
From WEKA’s memory grid and exabyte storage to 800G fabrics, liquid-cooled AI factories, edge clusters, and emerging quantum accelerators, SC25 proved HPC is now about end-to-end AI infrastructure.
Achieving HPC Performance with Xeon 6 Processors
Xeon 6 marries P-cores, E-cores, and scalable memory to feed data-hungry HPC workloads, eliminating bandwidth bottlenecks so spectral sims and other memory-bound codes can finally scale.
KubeCon Atlanta: CNCF Sets AI Standard for Kubernetes
On Day 1 of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Atlanta, CNCF unveiled Kubernetes AI Conformance to make workloads portable—arriving as inference surges to ~1.33 quadrillion tokens/month across Google’s systems.
VAST and CoreWeave Sign $1.17B Deal to Power AI Data Layer
Multi-year agreement makes VAST AI OS CoreWeave’s primary data foundation, aligning roadmaps for instant dataset access and performance across training and real-time inference in global AI cloud regions.
What’s next in CVEs Shaping Cybersecurity Compliance in 2025?
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) landscape is shifting—governance is changing, and security pros are moving beyond raw CVE counts to focus on context-aware, risk-based vulnerability management.
Quantum Momentum: Nearing a Tipping Point or Just Growing Hype?
Quantum breakthroughs from Microsoft, Quantinuum, and Google signal accelerating progress—but are we nearing a tipping point or still deep in the hype cycle?
OVHcloud Innovates Cloud Infrastructure with AI, Sustainable Tech
OVHcloud’s infrastructure strategy includes value chain integration, water-cooled data centers and servers with high-performance storage capabilities, setting it apart in the cloud industry.
Solidigm Spotlights AI Storage and Liquid Cooling at OCP
From breakthrough 122TB SSDs to the industry’s first liquid-cooled storage, Solidigm’s Avi Shetty unpacks how storage is powering AI workloads from hyperscale to neo-cloud.
Giga Computing Scales OCP Innovation with Giga PODs
From GPU and storage servers to turnkey rack-scale solutions, Giga Computing showcases its expanding OCP portfolio and the evolution of Giga PODs for high-density, high-efficiency data centers.
OCP EMEA Summit Highlights: The Race to 1MW IT Loads per Rack
Open Compute EMEA Summit featured announcements of major rack and power architecture innovations that address AI-driven data center challenges with advanced cooling and engineering solutions.
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Podcasts
Ampere Advances in the Data Center with Jeff Wittich
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Ampere Chief Product Officer Jeff Wittich about his company’s progress in winning data center deployments, advances in performance and sustainability, and pushing the limits on core density.
Security in the AI Era with Fortinet’s Srija Allam and Julian Petersohn
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Fortinet security experts Srija Allam and Julian Petersohn about the expansive Fortinet solution portfolio and how the company is leaning into AI to help deliver the protection customers require.
Delivery of the CXL Vision with the CXL Consortium's Kurtis Bowman and Kurt Lender
TechArena host Allyson Klein sits down with the marketing co-chairs of the CXL Consortium at SC’23 to discuss the introduction of the new 3.1 spec, the emergence of true CXL 2.0 solutions, and what comes next from this disruptive standard that will re-define data center infrastructure.
Efficient and Secure Data Center Computing with AMD's Robert Hormuth and Prabhu Jayanna
TechArena host Allyson Klein sat down with AMD’s Robert Hormuth and Prabhu Jayanna at the Open Compute Summit to discuss the advancements AMD EPYC processors have delivered in performance, performance efficiency and security capability including AMD’s Infinity Guard technology.
The Quest for Broad Data Center Advancement with Arm’s Eddie Ramirez
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Arm’s Eddie Ramirez at the Open Compute Summit about the architecture’s progress in data center, growing a thriving ecosystem, and the sustainability advantages of Arm’s design making it even more attractive to data center operators.
Storage Innovation in the AI Era with Solidigm’s Roger Corell and Tahmid Rahman
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Solidigm’s Roger Corell and Tahmid Rahman at the OCP Summit about their company’s heritage in the storage arena and how their SSD portfolio delivers the performance and efficiency required for the AI era.
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.
