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Contextual AI and WEKA Partner for Enterprise Class AI Activation

August 8, 2024

This week, Contextual AI partnered with WEKA to deliver enterprise AI services on Google Cloud using RAG 2.0 from Facebook AI Research. WEKA's platform boosted performance, achieving a 3X increase in key AI use cases, 4X faster model checkpointing, and reduced costs.

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Data Center Industry Veteran Lynn Comp Shares 3 Patterns Observed Over 30 Years in Tech

August 7, 2024

Data center industry veteran Lynn Comp shares insights from her career, discussing the importance of adaptability, emotional IQ, and practical tech. She highlights three patterns: customers prefer reliability over high-performance solutions, network limitations can negate compute power, and economic realities can override technological enthusiasm.

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Dog Days of Summer – Looking forward to OCP Summit

August 5, 2024

The upcoming OCP Summit in October will feature nineteen top-tier sponsors, up from just three in previous years, highlighting OCP’s role in AI infrastructure innovation. TechArena is excited to be a media sponsor, covering sustainable infrastructure, Sonic’s future, memory advancements, and power and cooling solutions with daily podcasts, video interviews, and stories.

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It’s Gettin’ Hot in Here: Industry veteran Jim Fister unpacks the history of the data center

July 30, 2024

In this blog post, industry veteran Jim Fister explores the evolution of data centers from early 2000s servers to modern AI/ML racks. Highlighting engineering and logistical challenges, he emphasizes the need for ongoing innovation and celebrates engineers while anticipating future advancements to meet increasing power demands.

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The State of Open Compute Infrastructure Innovation

June 5, 2024

TechArena spoke to over a dozen industry experts from OVH, Qarnot, PLVision, ZeroPoint Technologies, the Research Institutes of Sweden, London South Bank University, and the Open Compute Project to publish this comprehensive report on the state of open compute infrastructure innovation and how organizations should align data center planning and oversight with sustainability and performance objectives. If you manage an IT organization or oversee data center infrastructure, software, or sustainability initiatives, this report offers practical value for your organization.

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Microsoft and AMD Extend AI Collaboration at Build

May 22, 2024

TechArena’s take on Microsoft Build announcement of the world’s first MI300X instances arriving on Azure AI.

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AMD Leaps Ahead with Zen Architecture Powered EYPC Processors for the Cloud

October 19, 2023

TechArena’s Cloud Field Day report on AMD’s strategy for cloud native computing.

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Cloud Field Day Report: WEKA Throws the Data Gauntlet

October 19, 2023

TechArena’s quick take on WEKA’s discussion from Cloud Field Day.

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One More Time with Feeling - the Ultra Ethernet OCP Collaboration

October 19, 2023

TechArena’s take on the Ultra Ethernet Consortium Open Compute Project collaboration announcement and what it means for AI clusters.

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The Connectivity Broker for the AI Era: AlphaWave Semi

September 25, 2023

TechArena’s take on the importance of connectivity to AI and how Alphawave Semi is poised to deliver the perfect portfolio for solution activation.

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The Future of VMware: Going Down the Rabbit Hole at VMware Explore 2023

August 29, 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.

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The Future of Silicon Innovation in the Chiplet Era

April 6, 2023

TechArena’s take on Alphawave Semi and how Letizia Guiliano and her team are poised to win in the chiplet era

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The Rising Demands on Cloud Infrastructure

December 13, 2022

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Cloudflare infrastructure VP and Open Compute Board Chair Rebecca Weekly about the rising demands on cloud infrastructure across performance, design modularity, and sustainability.

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The State of Cloud Automation with Abby Kearns

December 7, 2022

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with cloud innovator Abby Kearns about the state of cloud automation and how further advancement is required to keep apace of growing cloud complexity.

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Couture Silicon for the Cloud

November 21, 2022

TechArena host Allyson Klein talks with Ampere Chief Product Officer Jeff Wittich on rise of Ampere fueled computing in the cloud and why Ampere's lineup places it in an excellent position for the next wave of cloud growth.

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Universal Storage Disruption - Vast Data Podcast

November 15, 2022

Allyson chats with Vast Data co-founder and CMO Jeff Denworth about Universal Storage and why it aims to disrupt traditional data paradigms.

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OCP Summit Recap: Innovation, Collaboration & Future Focus

OCP’s Rob Coyle shares insights on AI, cooling innovations, and open hardware’s role in transforming data centers as the industry accelerates toward scalable, sustainable infrastructure.

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AI’s Impact on OCP: Scaling Innovation and Infrastructure Growth

In this episode, OCP CEO George Tchaparian shares how OCP is driving AI infrastructure innovation, fostering collaboration, and tackling scalability, efficiency, and sustainability challenges in data centers and beyond.

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JetCool's Innovative Liquid Cooling Tech Powers High-Performance AI

JetCool Founder & CEO Bernie Malouin discusses the company’s breakthrough liquid cooling tech, which targets processor hotspots with jets of coolant to boost efficiency across intensive workloads.

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CoolIT: Revolutionizing Data Centers with Liquid Cooling Tech

Learn how CoolIT Systems is driving efficiency and performance in AI and data centers with cutting-edge liquid cooling solutions in our latest Data Insights podcast.

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GEICO’s Rebecca Weekly on IT Transformation and OCP Innovation

In this episode, Rebecca Weekly shares how GEICO is rethinking cloud strategy and embracing OCP for improved efficiency, security, and cost savings in its infrastructure journey.

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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.

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