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Design shifted to rack-scale. Power and cooling span the full path. Liquid is table stakes. Three takeaways from OCP 2025—and why CelLink’s PowerPlane fits an AI-factory mindset.

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.

Traditional data protection becomes the bottleneck when GPU idle time costs millions. Joint testing with Solidigm shows how next-generation solutions maintain full speed during drive failures.

From provisioning to observability to protection, HPE’s expanding cloud software suite targets the repatriation wave.

LLMs have given attackers new angles. Fortinet showed, step by step, how AI-driven probes escalate—and how FortiGate, FortiWeb, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiSOAR close the door without slowing the business.

From racks and liquid loops to data placement and standards pace, five takeaways from CoreWeave, Dell, NVIDIA, Solidigm, and VAST Data on building AI factories that keep accelerators busy and dollars well-spent.

At Cloud Field Day 24, Oxide outlines a vertically integrated rack—custom hypervisor, integrated power/network, and open integrations—aimed at bringing hyperscale efficiency and faster deploys to enterprise DCs.

Presenting at Cloud Field Day 24, Pure pitched fleet-level automation across mixed environments as the antidote to storage silos, promising one control plane for legacy systems and modern workloads.

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.

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.

A 2025 field guide for architects: why Arm’s software gravity and hyperscaler adoption make it the low-friction path today, where RISC-V is gaining ground, and the curveballs that could reshape both.

The cloud security architect who came from networking explains her framework for separating tech hype from genuine innovation, and why stepping away is key to solving hard problems.

Veteran technologist and TechArena Voice of Innovation Robert Bielby reflects on a career spanning hardware, product strategy, and marketing — and shares candid insights on innovation, AI, and the future of the automotive industry.

Bradbrook shares principles behind Antillion’s edge platforms—usability, fast iteration, real-world testing—and why the metric that matters most is durable value: tech that still works a decade later.

Dell and Solidigm explore how flash storage is transforming creative pipelines—from real-time rendering to AI-enhanced production—enabling faster workflows and better business outcomes.

OnLogic's Hunter Golden reveals how enterprises can deploy effective AI at the edge with right-sized hardware, lower costs, and even better performance than cloud alternatives.

Robert Bielby assesses his 2025 predictions for the automotive industry and examines Intel’s exit, China’s BYD beating Tesla, German market woes, and 8K display adoption.

By blending rugged design with Solidigm’s high-density SSDs, Antillion is redefining what’s possible in disconnected, real-time environments.

Multi-modal generative AI is transforming ADAS with compute-heavy LLMs, driving demand for HBM and memory safety to enable smarter, more human-like, and safer automotive navigation.

Part 1 of a series: Once tech followers, vehicles now lead the charge in advanced memory and storage, reshaping semiconductors with demands for speed, security, and software-defined performance.

Financial incentives and future legislation are pushing EV adoption, but advanced power electronics and battery technologies are crucial to addressing range anxiety and driving broader acceptance.

Dryad Networks pairs its IoT sensor mesh with autonomous Silvaguard drones to confirm wildfires faster and give responders real-time eyes on the ground — before the smoke even rises.

In this blog, Robert Bielby explains how engineers leverage redundancy, decomposition, and fault detection to certify standard components for advanced safety compliance at the system level.

MIPS’ recently announced Atlas portfolio integrates sensing, decision-making, and real-time control systems. These compute subsystems enable intelligent, autonomous machines across edge applications.

TechArena’s quick take on Juniper Networks discussion at Cloud Field Day

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Radware CTO David Aviv about the unique challenges of securing the edge and how his company is shaping security solutions to minimize attack threats.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Canonical’s Arno van Huyssteen and Wajeeha Hamid about the state of opensource for the network and their new solutions for RAN implementations.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Ribbon’s Matt Hurst about the opportunity of 5G services at the edge and how they’re reshaping business.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Cellnex’s Catherine Gull on the state of private 5G deployments and how her company is tapping the technology for deeper engagement with customers.

TechArena Host Allyson Klein discusses the imperatives for 6G as we head deep into standards definition and the need for collaboration between industry and academia on future standards with MIT’s Muriel Medard.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with NVIDIA’s Rajesh Gadiyar about his company’s strategy to accelerate 5G and edge adoption including cloud native vRAN.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Intel vice president of wireless access networks Cristina Rodriguez about the white hot VRAN market

Our take on the state of private 5G deployment heading into 2023.

Flex’s president of communications, enterprise & cloud discusses AI-driven data centers, Flex's role in scalable power and cooling solutions, rapid deployments, and innovation in liquid cooling.

In our chat with Justin Murrill, we learned how AMD integrates cutting-edge design to reduce carbon impact and how their innovative processors are driving data center efficiency and sustainability.

During this episode of Data Insights sponsored by Solidigm, Grégory Lebourg – Global Environmental Director at OVHcloud – discusses how companies can meet their environmental goals effectively.

As TechArena prepares to launch its 2024 Data Center Efficiency Report, Allyson Klein talks with Dave Sierra about how innovative SSDs are driving data center efficiency.

Leading up to the release of TechArena’s 2024 Data Center Efficiency Report, Martin shares how the right data foundation enhances GPU efficiency, driving sustainable, high-performance AI workloads.

TechArena's Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski from Solidigm sit down with Kelley Mullick, Vice President Technology Advancement and Alliances, from Iceotope to discuss the latest in data center cooling technology. They dive into the role of liquid cooling in supporting AI workloads, the sustainability benefits of advanced cooling solutions, and the future of edge computing.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Deborah Andrews, Professor of Design for Sustainability and Circularity, at London South Bank University, about her research into delivering true circularity in data center production and operation and how the future is shaping to get closer to this vision.

TechArena spoke to over 20 industry experts from AMD, Ampere, Arm, Cloudflare, Etho Capital, Fermyon, HED, Intel, Koomey Research, Lemurian Labs, Meta, Microsoft, the Open Compute Project, Oracle, Schneider Electric, Solidigm, and Tenstorrent to publish this comprehensive report on the state of compute sustainability and how organizations should align data center planning and oversight with corporate social responsibility objectives. If you manage an IT organization or oversee data center infrastructure, software, or building management, this report offers practical value for your organization.

TechArena host Allyson Klein talks to Intel’s Eric Dahlen, Microsoft’s Shruti Sethi and Schneider Electric’s Alex Rakow about the advancement of OCP’s sustainability initiative in 2023 across embodied carbon in silicon, circularity, and getting beyond PUE.

TechArena quick take on Andy Bechtolsheim’s talk at the OCP Global Summit and how liquid cooling innovation is about to accelerate.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Meta and OCP lead Dharmesh Jani about his vision for sustainability innovation for the data center and how the OCP sustainability initiative came into being.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Intel’s chief sustainability officer Jennifer Huffstetler about her vision for more energy efficient, resource aware computing and how the industry needs to work together towards building a more sustainable future.