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Efficiency: The New Moat for Data and AI Teams
Cloud waste, FinOps, and sustainability goals are reshaping data engineering. Teams that design efficient stacks, track cost and energy, and treat constraints as features will ship more with less.
Resilience in the Age of AI: Inside Commvault’s ResOps Pitch
At Commvault SHIFT, “ResOps” and AI resilience were framed as the next operating model for enterprises facing AI-driven threats and cloud sprawl, raising the bar for what “clean” recovery should mean.
Inside the New Product DNA: AI, Causality, Experimentation
AI is turning product development into a living, experiment-led system, where causal inference, data and automation form a feedback loop that learns from releases to build smarter products faster.
15 Questions Every Cybersecurity Leader Should Ask on Day One
Stepping into a new cybersecurity leadership role, the smartest first move isn’t a new tool or policy, but questions. Use these 15 to map risk, culture, and influence before you start changing anything.
Inside KubeCon 2025: How AI Is Rewriting Kubernetes Operations
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Atlanta, Devtron, Komodor, and Dynatrace showed how AI is reshaping Kubernetes ops—from self-healing fleets + spot-friendly migration to AI observability + business ROI.
Cloud-Native 2025 by the Numbers: The Developer Tent Just Got Bigger
CNCF + SlashData’s latest report counts 15.6M cloud-native developers as IDPs pull backend teams into the fold; hybrid + multi-cloud rise with AI demand while inference stacks + agentic frameworks coalesce.
Marvell Inks $5.5B Celestial AI Deal to Break Memory Wall
Marvell is inking a deal for optical interconnect startup Celestial AI in a massive bet that the industry has shifted from being compute-constrained to bandwidth-constrained.
Using the Power of Micro Grids to Feed AI’s Insatiable Appetite
As AI training pushes data centers to unprecedented power densities, researchers reveal an affordable solution that lets computing thrive on fluctuating renewable energy.
8 Ways AI Will Rewrite Data Center Infrastructure in 2026
In Part 1 of Voice of Innovation Matty Bakkeren’s 2026 predictions series, he explores how AI, power, cooling, and supply chains are reshaping data center infrastructure for a utility-scale future.
The AI Divide in 2026: Economic Wildfire and an Information Elite
As up to 10 million jobs disappear and quality content moves behind paywalls, the question isn’t if AI will reshape society. It’s whether 2026 is the year we’ll control the burn or watch it spread.
Castrol Offers a Fluid Fix for AI’s Overheating Data Centers
New liquid cooling solutions have created a critical new system for data centers, and the company's “magic dust” additive packages are proving essential to keep AI running.
From Intel To Machani Robotics: Niv Sundaram On Human-First AI
Intel veteran and Machani Robotics CSO/CTO Niv Sundaram, one of TechArena’s newest voices of innovation, talks emotionally intelligent AI, companion humanoids, and why real innovation starts and ends with human wellbeing.
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Podcasts
Inside Runpod’s GPU Cloud for Long-Running AI Agents
Runpod head of engineering Brennen Smith joins a Data Insights episode to unpack GPU-dense clouds, hidden storage bottlenecks, and a “universal orchestrator” for long-running AI agents at scale.
Cornelis Networks & AMD on Scaling AI Without the Chaos
From CPU orchestration to scaling efficiency in networks, leaders reveal how to assess your use case, leverage existing infrastructure, and productize AI instead of just experimenting.
Cornelis and OCP Examine Why AI Infrastructure Must Evolve
From the OCP Global Summit, hear why 50% GPU utilization is a “civilization-level” problem, and why open standards are key to unlocking underutilized compute capacity.
How Axelera Scales Inference From Edge to Data Center
In the Arena: Allyson Klein with Axelera CMO Alexis Crowell on inference-first AI silicon, a customer-driven SDK, and what recent tapeouts reveal about the roadmap.
Data Insights: AI in Healthcare with Dr. Rohith Vangalla
In this episode of Data Insights, host Allyson Klein and co-host Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Dr. Rohith Vangalla of Optum to discuss the future of AI in healthcare.
Metrum AI’s Steen Graham on Multi-Agent AI and Smarter Storage
From OCP Summit, Metrum AI CEO Steen Graham unpacks multi-agent infrastructure, SSD-accelerated RAG, and the memory-to-storage shift—plus a 2026 roadmap to boost GPU utilization, uptime, and time-to-value.
Hybrid AI at Scale: Celestica’s Playbook
From AI Infra Summit, Celestica’s Matt Roman unpacks the shift to hybrid and on-prem AI, why sovereignty/security matter, and how silicon, power, cooling, and racks come together to deliver scalable AI infrastructure.
AI-Driven Chip Design with Synopsys
Allyson Klein talks with Synopsys’ Anand Thiruvengadam on how agentic AI is reshaping chip design to meet extreme performance, time-to-market, and workforce challenges.
MLCommons: Setting the Standard for AI Performance
From storage to automotive, MLPerf is evolving with industry needs. Hear David Kanter explain how community-driven benchmarking is enabling reliable and scalable AI deployment.
Solidigm on Building Future-Ready AI Storage
Solidigm’s Ace Stryker joins Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski on Data Insights to explore how partnerships and innovation are reshaping storage for the AI era.
Iceotope’s Sustainable Cooling Vision for the AI Era
With sustainability at the core, Iceotope is pioneering liquid cooling solutions that reduce environmental impact while meeting the demands of AI workloads at scale.
AI Infra 2025: David Glick on Building Walmart’s Future with AI
In this episode of In the Arena, David Glick, SVP at Walmart, shares how one of the world’s largest enterprises is fostering rapid AI innovation and empowering engineers to transform retail.
