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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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Supermicro Leverages Its Heritage of Innovation to Fuel AI Era Compute

May 15, 2024

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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1011 Fact-Based Guesses for 2025

December 19, 2024

Interested in what’s on the horizon for tech in 2025? Jim Fister’s latest article delves into the future of work, the emergence of AI-as-a-service, global innovation and several more geeky insights for the year ahead.

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Gigabyte: From Gaming Gear to Open Compute Trailblazer

December 12, 2024

Discover how Gigabyte expanded beyond gaming hardware to become a leader in data center innovation, AI infrastructure, advanced cooling solutions and open compute standards.

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Matty Bakkeren: 3 Trends That Could Transform Data Centers in 2025

December 9, 2024

In this blog, Momenthesis’ Matty Bakkeren explores how AI integration, OCP growth, and data centers as energy assets will reshape the future of data infrastructure in 2025 and beyond.

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Redefining Data Centers: AMD’s Take on AI and Compute Evolution

December 6, 2024

AMD’s Ravi Kuppuswamy discusses energy efficiency, open standards, and the evolution of computing in the AI era.

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Being Cool May Not Be Sustainable

December 5, 2024

In this blog, data center expert Vernon Turner explores how data centers stay cool while addressing their high environmental costs, highlighting innovative cooling methods and renewable energy solutions.

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Revolutionizing Data Storage: Harnessing 122TB SSDs for AI & HPC

December 5, 2024

In this video from SC24, experts discuss how the world’s largest SSD will transform their AI and HPC workloads, enabling faster access and accelerating growth while reducing data center footprints.

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Fostering the Cutting Edge of Data Center Innovation with OCP’s Lesya Dymyd

April 29, 2024

TechArena host Allyson Klein chat’s with OCP’s Lesya Dymyd about her work steering the organization’s future technologies symposium as well as her deep collaboration with European technology providers and operators delivering to the region’s unique market requirements.

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Riding the AI Data Pipeline with VAST Data, a Data Insights Series podcast with Solidigm

April 29, 2024

TechArena host Allyson Klein is joined by Solidigm’s Jeniece Wnorowski as they continue to explore rapid data innovation fueling today’s computing. In today’s episode, they chat with VAST Data’s Global VP of Engineering, Subramanian Kartik, as he describes how his team has delivered a breakthrough data platform for the AI Era.

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SONIC Network Innovation for the AI Era with PLVision’s Taras Chornyi

April 29, 2024

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with PLVision Director of Open Networking Solutions and Strategy, Taras Chornyi, about the progress of SONIC and open network infrastructure for the AI Era.

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Connectivity Innovation for Scalable Data Movement in the AI Era with Credo’s Don Barnetson

April 25, 2024

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Credo VP Don Barnetson about how his company is delivering innovative optical solutions that address the AI era’s requirements for scalable data movement in the data center and beyond from OCP Lisbon 2024.

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Startup Innovation Key to Address Sustainable Infrastructure with Qarnot CEO Paul Benoit

April 25, 2024

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Qarnot CEO Paul Benoit about how VC backed startups are an essential element of vibrant industry innovation, and how the AI era has placed requirements on innovative approaches to sustainable IT.

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Advancing Sustainable Infrastructure to Fuel Hungry Workloads with CircleB's Matty Bakkeren

April 24, 2024

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with CircleB’s Matty Bakkeren about how his organization is leveraging OCP specifications to deliver innovative and sustainable solutions to data center customers, how AI is re-shaping operator requirements, and how he sees the market shaping in 2024.

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CircleB: Optimizing Data Centers for AI Workloads

Tune in as Jason Maselino of Circle B discusses the role of Open Compute Project in revolutionizing data centers with energy-efficient solutions, modular designs, and AI-ready infrastructure.

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Scaling Innovation: How MIPS Balances Performance with Flexibility in a Data-Driven World

MIPS CTO Durgesh Srivastava shares insights on AI, data centers, automotive edge, and how MIPS is leveraging RISC-V to drive efficient, flexible computing solutions.

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Powering AI with ZincFive’s Sustainable Battery Solutions

Tod Higinbotham, COO of ZincFive, discusses the role of nickel-zinc batteries in supporting AI workloads, improving data center efficiency, and advancing sustainability in power infrastructure.

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Revolutionizing RAID: Graid's Supreme Solution for Modern Data Challenges

Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski chat with Kelley Osburn of Graid about SupremeRAID™ and its role in tackling high-performance storage challenges in data-driven environments.

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Data Center in the AI Era with Jen Huffstetler

Join Allyson Klein as she welcomes former colleague/ industry innovator Jen Huffstetler. Jen shares her extensive experience driving advancements from client devices to the data center, including groundbreaking technologies like Centrino and 3D packaging.

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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.

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