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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.
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.
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.
Insights with sayTEC on Sovereign IT Infrastructure Revolution
A unified security-first platform is eliminating decades of fragmented IT vulnerabilities while delivering military-grade protection at half the cost
Hypertec Shrinks the Data Center with Immersion-Born Servers
Hypertec’s immersion-born servers cut cooling power by 50% and shrink 10MW deployments from 100,000 sq ft to around 10,000—showing liquid cooling isn’t experimental anymore; it’s essential.
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.
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Podcasts
Advanced Packaging Innovations in the Semiconductor Industry with Chee Ping Lee of Lam Research
In this podcast, learn about the challenges of silicon advancement, the importance of advanced packaging, and how Lam is driving breakthroughs to support the future of AI and chiplet ecosystems.
Sneak peek: What to expect at the OCP conference with Schneider Electric’s Alex Rakow and Intel’s Eric Dahlen
Join host Allyson Klein in this insightful episode of Tech Arena, featuring Eric Dahlen from Intel and Alex Rakow from Schneider Electric. As co-chairs of the Compute Sustainability group within the Open Compute Project, Eric and Alex discuss their roles, the initiative's goals, and the impact of AI on data center sustainability. They delve into the challenges and innovations in power and cooling technologies, embodied carbon, and circularity practices. Get a sneak peek into what to expect at the upcoming OCP Summit and how industry leaders are pushing the boundaries of sustainable technology.
Sprinting Towards an AI Future with Microsoft’s Nidhi Chappell
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Microsoft’s Vice President of Azure AI and HPC Infrastructure, Nidhi Chappell, in advance of Microsoft Build 2024. Nidhi shares how her organization is accelerating deployments of critical technology to fuel the insatiable demand for AI around the world and how Microsoft’s AI tools including co-pilot, Open AI and more have been met with overwhelming engagement from developers. She also talks about Microsoft’s silicon plans and strategic collaborations with NVIDIA and AMD.
Driving Sustainable Data Center Infrastructure for the Next Wave of Greenfield Buildout with Jon Summers
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Research Institute of Sweden’s Jon Summers about the latest research his team has conducted on efficient infrastructure and data center buildout in the wake of massive data center growth for the AI era.
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.
Ventiva Reinvents Cooling with Silent Airflow Tech
Ventiva CEO Carl Schlachte joins Allyson Klein to share how the company’s Ionic Cooling Engine is transforming laptops, servers, and beyond with silent, modular airflow.
Cooling the AI Heat: JetCool’s Strategy for Data Centers
Discover how JetCool’s proprietary liquid cooling is solving AI’s toughest heat challenges—keeping data centers efficient as workloads and power densities skyrocket.
Inside Confidential Computing with Hushmesh & Invary
Allyson Klein hosts Manu Fontaine (Hushmesh) and Jason Rogers (Invary) to unpack TEEs, attestation, and how confidential computing is moving from pilots to real deployments across data center and edge.
Immersion Cooling: Revolutionizing AI & Edge Computing
Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski welcome Mohan Potheri of Hypertec to explore how immersion cooling slashes energy use, shrinks data-center footprints, and powers sustainable, high-density AI, HPC, and edge solutions on this Data Insights episode.
SayTEC Powers Scalable, Secure, Sovereign IT Infrastructure
SayTEC redefines IT with a zero trust, hyper-converged platform delivering sovereign cloud, seamless scalability, and military-grade security for critical industries.
Flexibility at the Edge: Pragmatic Semiconductor’s Bold Approach
In this podcast, Pragmatic Semi CEO David Moore shares how flexible, sustainable ICs are unlocking new edge AI and IoT applications—powered by a low-carbon, high-volume fab model.
