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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.

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.

Join host Allyson Klein in this insightful episode of Tech Arena, featuring Eric Dahlen from Intel and Alex Rakow from Schneider Electric. As co-chairs of the Compute Sustainability group within the Open Compute Project, Eric and Alex discuss their roles, the initiative's goals, and the impact of AI on data center sustainability. They delve into the challenges and innovations in power and cooling technologies, embodied carbon, and circularity practices. Get a sneak peek into what to expect at the upcoming OCP Summit and how industry leaders are pushing the boundaries of sustainable technology.

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.

TechArena’s take on Microsoft Build announcement of the world’s first MI300X instances arriving on Azure AI.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Microsoft’s Vice President of Azure AI and HPC Infrastructure, Nidhi Chappell, in advance of Microsoft Build 2024. Nidhi shares how her organization is accelerating deployments of critical technology to fuel the insatiable demand for AI around the world and how Microsoft’s AI tools including co-pilot, Open AI and more have been met with overwhelming engagement from developers. She also talks about Microsoft’s silicon plans and strategic collaborations with NVIDIA and AMD.

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.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with OCP’s Raul Alvarez on his new charter accelerating growth of the data center market in Europe as well as his ongoing work in immersion cooling technologies from OCP Lisbon 2024.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Palo Alto Electron CEO Jawad Nasrullah about his vision for an open chiplet economy, the semiconductor manufacturing hurdles standing in the way of broad chiplet market delivery, and how he plans to play a role in shaping this next evolution of the semiconductor landscape.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Research Institute of Sweden’s Jon Summers about the latest research his team has conducted on efficient infrastructure and data center buildout in the wake of massive data center growth for the AI era.

TechArena host Allyson Klein and Solidigm’s Jeniece Wnorowski chat with Weka’s Joel Kaufman, as he tours the Weka data platform and how the company’s innovation provides sustainable data management that scales for the AI era.

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.

VMware kicked off Edge Field Day with a deep dive into their edge compute stack, featuring SD-WAN, SASE security, 5G support, flexible workload management, real-time app optimization, and zero-touch orchestration.

OnLogic showcased their innovative edge computing solutions at Edge Field Day 3. The family-run company delivers rugged, reliable industrial PCs and edge servers for challenging environments.

At Edge Field Day 3, Zededa showcased their edge orchestration platform, highlighting deployments with Chevron, Porsche, and major automotive brands. Their open-source OS, cloud control, and flexible architecture power secure, scalable edge solutions across industries.

TSecond presented Bryck and Bryck AI at Edge Field Day 3, featuring rugged, energy-efficient edge storage with AI acceleration. Bryck offers up to 1TB storage, high throughput, and ruggedness for edge environments.

Avassa showcased their cloud-based Control Tower platform at Edge Field Day, highlighting its container-first approach for edge application orchestration. They demonstrated solutions for VM-container integration, AI model deployment, and offline edge management.

Welcome to our community of innovators, sharing perspectives on what comes next.

Robert Bielby discusses the impact of Level 3 ADAS on automotive chip technology, highlighting the need for new system-level architectures and advanced SoCs to handle diverse workloads. He explores the adoption of chiplet technology, which offers efficiency and cost benefits over traditional monolithic solutions.

Discover how Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are transforming the automotive industry. From Level 0 to Level 5, learn about the different ADAS levels and their impact on driving safety. See why ADAS features are becoming a top priority for car buyers and how they're making our roads safer and driving smarter.

Allyson Klein’s insights from the Data Insights series interview with Solidigm and Cheetah RAID.

TechArena innovation blogger Robert Bielby kicks off his content series on how the automotive sector is being disrupted by technology.

TechArena host Allyson Klein and Solidigm’s Jeniece Wnorowski chat with Cheetah RAID VP Doug Emby about the innovative solutions his company is delivering to edge environments across a wide swath of applications from the entertainment industry to defense, and how innovative SSD designs from Solidigm help provide a foundation for storage performance and efficiency.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Carsten Brinkshulte, CEO of Dryad Networks, about his company’s mesh network solution aimed at alerting forest fires before ignition, how his team tapped IOT and AI technology to develop their solution, and his aim to deploy hundreds of thousands of sensors in forests across the globe in 2024.

In this Tech Arena episode, Allyson Klein interviews Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint, on internet monitoring, observability innovations, and AI's impact on automation. Discover their latest tools enhancing performance.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Muriel Medard from MIT about the trends in network innovation, how AI is infusing into telco, and the shaping of 6G.

TechArena’s host Allyson Klein reprises conversation at MWC24 with a talk with GlobalLogic’s SVP of Global Communication Services Business, Sameer Tikoo, about the future of AI in the network and how his firm is building solutions that meet swiftly evolving customer demands.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Avidthink Principal Roy Chua about advancement of the network across 5G, edge, AI integration and more as the two share insights from MWC24.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Hideyuki Tsugane, Vice President of Business Development at CTOne, about his organization’s vision of private wireless security and the staus of private 5G deployments as his company readies for a hockey stick of growth.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Ansys Chief Technologist Christophe Bianchi about his company’s mission to deliver design simulation across industries, how the communications arena represents an opportunity from silicon to systems of systems, and how AI is accelerating capabilities in Ansys solutions.

TechArena’s take on AMD’s progress in cementing a foundation for 5G, the intelligent edge, and AI.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Samsung’s Head of 6G Advanced Network Research and one of the industry’s top women in 6G, Yue Wang, about her vision for the next generation communications standard, what technical forces are shaping its progress, and how the industry stands to capitalize on its fruition.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Ribbon Communications’ Jonathan Homa and David Stokes about the progress of 5G proliferation and the importance of the adoption of the intelligent middle mile in reaping full benefit from 5G services.

TechArena’s take on NVIDIA’s network aspirations, the progress of the Aerial platform, and more from #MWC24

TechArena host Allyson Klein delves deep into dynamic spectrum allocation and new government policy that opens up innovation in how spectrum is accessed for all with DGS CEO Fernando Murias.

AMD Extends Network Performance and Efficiency Leadership at MWC24

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 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 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 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.

TechArena’s take on the Ampere Cloud Sustainability Event.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with leading climate researchers Jonathan Koomey and Ian Monroe to discuss their new book and how they're delivering a mandate to leaders to take action now.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Ampere CPO Jeff Wittich and HPE VP Peter Groth about their recently announced collaboration for cloud infrastructure optimized for compute sustainability.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with NASA research scientist Ryan Stauffer about how NASA's SHADOZ program measured increased stratospheric water vapor caused by the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption and its impact on Earth’s climate.

Tech Arena’s host Allyson Klein chats with NASA’s Megan Damon about her group’s study of global air pollution and its impact on climate change and human health.