Data Center
Highlights
OPEN Innovation to Face Off Data Center Challenges
Why Companies Should Apply the Power of OPEN Innovation to Data Center Infrastructure
3 Exec Insights on Cultivating Successful Industry Partnerships
Tech industry vet Lynn Comp explores the benefits of industry partnerships and why it’s critical to understand one’s own business drivers and their partner’s to achieve success.
Iceotope Delivers Great Chemistry for Cool Data Centers
Iceotope's liquid cooling tech is shaking up data centers as AI drives the need for efficient heat management. Dr. Kelley Mullick explains the shift from air to liquid cooling, highlighting Iceotope's sustainable solutions.
It’s No Coincidence that Wait-and-See Rhymes with Latency
Jim Fister dives deep into the intricacies of system memory, latency, and data management, exploring how modern computing architectures handle data retrieval and processing.
Advanced Packaging: Driving the AI Era Forward
AI is driving an acceleration of compute demands fueled by the proliferation of large language models across industry use cases. This requirement comes as traditional semiconductor technology pushes against the laws of physics with the slowing of Moore’s Law.
Contextual AI and WEKA Partner for Enterprise Class AI Activation
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.
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
Building Composable Data Systems with Voltron Data CEO Josh Patterson
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Voltron Data CEO Josh Patterson about delivery of Theseus, a composable data system framework that unleashes develops with new interoperability and flexibility for AI era data challenges.
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.
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.
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.
