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Giga Computing: Rack-Scale, Regional, and Ready for Inference
From circularity to U.S. assembly, Giga Computing lays out a rack-scale roadmap tuned for the next phase of AI—where inference drives scale and regional supply chains become a competitive edge.
8 Ways Power, Policy, & Public Trust will Reshape Data Centers
In Part 2 of Matty Bakkeren’s 2026 predictions series, he explores how regulation, sovereignty, and public trust will push data centers to behave more like utilities than tech projects.
OCP 2025: Arm’s Chiplet Play Aims To Democratize AI Compute
Arm’s OCP board seat and new FCSA spec push chiplet interoperability from idea to implementation—enabling mix-and-match silicon and smarter storage so teams can build AI without hyperscaler budgets.
Inside SC25: AI Factories From Racks to Qubits
From WEKA’s memory grid and exabyte storage to 800G fabrics, liquid-cooled AI factories, edge clusters, and emerging quantum accelerators, SC25 proved HPC is now about end-to-end AI infrastructure.
Achieving HPC Performance with Xeon 6 Processors
Xeon 6 marries P-cores, E-cores, and scalable memory to feed data-hungry HPC workloads, eliminating bandwidth bottlenecks so spectral sims and other memory-bound codes can finally scale.
KubeCon Atlanta: CNCF Sets AI Standard for Kubernetes
On Day 1 of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Atlanta, CNCF unveiled Kubernetes AI Conformance to make workloads portable—arriving as inference surges to ~1.33 quadrillion tokens/month across Google’s systems.
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.
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.
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Podcasts
Nebius at SC25: Building the Neocloud for Enterprise AI
From SC25 in St. Louis, Nebius shares how its neocloud, Token Factory PaaS, and supercomputer-class infrastructure are reshaping AI workloads, enterprise adoption, and efficiency at hyperscale.
Giga Computing on Rack-Scale AI: From Training to Inference
Recorded at #OCPSummit25, Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Giga Computing’s Chen Lee to unpack GIGAPOD and GPM, DLC/immersion cooling, regional assembly, and the pivot to inference.
RackRenew & Circularity: Remanufacture, Recertify, Redeploy
From #OCPSummit25, this Data Insights episode unpacks how RackRenew remanufactures OCP-compliant racks, servers, networking, power, and storage—turning hyperscaler discards into ready-to-deploy capacity.
From OCP 2025: Arm’s Chiplet Push and the AI Ecosystem Play
Allyson Klein and co-host Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Arm’s Eddie Ramirez to unpack Arm Total Design’s growth, the FCSA chiplet spec contribution to OCP, a new board seat, and how storage fits AI’s surge.
Immersion, Not Hype: Midas on Liquid Cooling at OCP
Midas Immersion Cooling CEO Scott Sickmiller joins a Data Insights episode at OCP 2025 to demystify single-phase immersion, natural vs. forced convection, and what it takes to do liquid cooling at AI scale.
Castrol on Liquid Cooling: Additives, Filters, Failure Modes
From hyperscale direct-to-chip to micron-level realities: Darren Burgess (Castrol) explains dielectric fluids, additive packs, particle risks, and how OCP standards keep large deployments on track.
Innovating OpenBMC Enabled Shared Firmware Across the Network with HPE’s Jean-Marie Verdun
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with HPE’s Jean-Marie Verdun about his organization’s groundbreaking work to redefine firmware management using OpenBMC technology and how this breakthrough addresses data center customer demands.
Advancing Sustainable Infrastructure to Fuel Hungry Workloads with CircleB's Matty Bakkeren
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.
Data Insights Series Sponsored by Solidigm: Achieving AI Scale with CoreWeave
TechArena hosts Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wronowski chat with CoreWeave’s Jacob Yundt about how his organization is delivering a scalable data pipeline to AI customers utilizing breakthrough VAST Data solutions featuring Solidigm QLC SSDs.
Exploring Data in the AI Era with Solidigm - New Data Insights Series
The TechArena kicks off a Data Insights Series in collaboration with Solidigm, and TechArena host welcomes co-host Jeniece Wronowski and Solidigm data center marketing director Ace Stryker to the program to talk about data in the AI era, the series objectives, and how SSD innovation sits at the foundation of a new data pipeline.
Charting Architectural Innovation in the Chiplet Era with OCP's Cliff Grossner
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with OCP’s Cliff Grossner regarding the chiplet era, how architectural evolution has evolved to a chiplet economy, and how the OCP is helping create an open marketplace for innovation.
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.
