Data Center
Highlights
A Trio of Trackable Topics at OCP Summit
The OCP Summit is officially underway. As proud media sponsors, TechArena will cover all the biggest takeaways from the event - with a special focus on performance, power and cooling, and standards.
TechArena Data Center Compute Efficiency Report 2024
Check out TechArena’s Data Center Compute Efficiency Report 2024 to discover how AI-driven innovation is reshaping data centers, reducing power consumption, and driving efficient compute solutions.
You Can’t Have It All: Managing Expectations in Complex Projects
In this post, industry veteran Jim Fister highlights the importance of clear goals and managing expectations in tech projects, emphasizing the challenge of balancing schedule, features, and budget.
Don’t Skip Leg Day
Data center expert Lynn Comp explains how AI's data demands challenge networks to improve bandwidth, responsiveness, and security. Without these advancements, networks may struggle, like skipping leg day in weightlifting.
Voltron Data Unleashes Accelerator Native Performance at Scale
In this video, Voltron Data’s CEO and Co-Founder Josh Patterson explains how the Theseus engine boosts enterprise data systems with GPU acceleration, tackling large-scale analytics and data challenges at petabyte-scale.
How Security Tech has Evolved to Make Us Safer (or not) Since 9/11
In this blog, industry veteran Jim Fister reflects on the impact of technology, redundancy, and human bias on global security, especially after 9/11, highlighting both optimism and frustration.
Data Center Industry Veteran Lynn Comp Shares 3 Patterns Observed Over 30 Years in Tech
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.
Dog Days of Summer – Looking forward to OCP Summit
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.
It’s Gettin’ Hot in Here: Industry veteran Jim Fister unpacks the history of the data center
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.
The State of Open Compute Infrastructure Innovation
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.
Microsoft and AMD Extend AI Collaboration at Build
TechArena’s take on Microsoft Build announcement of the world’s first MI300X instances arriving on Azure AI.
Supermicro Leverages Its Heritage of Innovation to Fuel AI Era Compute
TechArena’s take on a recent Data Insights conversation featuring Supermicro and Solidigm on how Supermicro’s solutions are targeting AI data pipeline requirements and the role SSDs play in delivering high performance, efficiency and density for Supermicro solutions.
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Podcasts
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.
The Future of Computing Infrastructure for the AI Era with Cloudflare’s Rebecca Weekly
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Cloudflare VP Rebecca Weekly at the OCP Summit on far ranging topics including the demands of AI on infrastructure, how Summit announcements will shape the industry, and the importance of modular and circular infrastructure oversight.
Charting a Long Range Strategy with Oracle’s Bev Crair
TechArena' host Allyson Klein chats with Oracle executive Bev Crair on how she’s tackling long term strategic planning for OCI to get ahead of where the market and customers travel and how this approach informs Oracle business.
Greenfield Data Center Explosion in the AI Era with HED’s Sara Martin
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with HED associate principal Sara Martin about the trends in greenfield data center buildout and what drives determination of greenfield site prioritization.
Connectivity for the AI Era with Alphawave Semi’s Tony Chan Carusone
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Alphawave Semi’s CTO Tony Chan Carusone regarding the unique opportunity for connectivity innovation to fuel the era of AI and why Alphawave is perfectly poised for IP, chiplet and custom solution delivery.
Exploring the Birth of the Universe with the NASA Webb Telescope
TechArena host Allyson Klein sits down with NASA’s Matt Greenhouse to discuss the Webb telescope project, a mission he has been working on for decades, and how it will shape our understanding of the birth of the universe, exoplanets, and potentially life beyond Earth.
PCI-SIG’s Al Yanes on PCIe 7.0, HPC, and the Future of Interconnects
In this podcast, PCI-SIG President Al Yanes explores PCI-SIG's journey to PCIe 7.0, advancements in copper and optical specs, and their pivotal role in HPC and AI.
Bill Gropp on the NCSA and the Future of Supercomputing Innovation
In this podcast, NCSA Director Bill Gropp explores the latest advanced computing trends, from AI innovations to groundbreaking research on supercomputing climate models, and how this tech is transforming science and society.
Revolutionizing AI Workloads with Advanced Data Center Solutions
Discover how AI is transforming data centers, with innovations in high-speed networking, emulation, and hyperscale infrastructure driving efficiency and performance in the era of AI workloads.
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.
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.
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.
