Data Center
Highlights
3 Top Takeaways from OCP Summit
The 2024 OCP Summit spotlighted performance, power, and standards in the AI era, delivering record attendance and more than one jaw-dropping announcement. Check out our top takeaways from the event.
Keysight’s AI Test Platform: Optimizing AI Networks for Data Centers
Keysight’s AI Data Center Test Platform enhances AI network infrastructure by emulating workloads, benchmarking performance, and optimizing AI cluster communication for high-throughput, low-latency environments.
A Trio of Trackable Topics at OCP Summit
The OCP Summit is officially underway. As proud media sponsors, TechArena will cover all the biggest takeaways from the event - with a special focus on performance, power and cooling, and standards.
TechArena Data Center Compute Efficiency Report 2024
Check out TechArena’s Data Center Compute Efficiency Report 2024 to discover how AI-driven innovation is reshaping data centers, reducing power consumption, and driving efficient compute solutions.
You Can’t Have It All: Managing Expectations in Complex Projects
In this post, industry veteran Jim Fister highlights the importance of clear goals and managing expectations in tech projects, emphasizing the challenge of balancing schedule, features, and budget.
Don’t Skip Leg Day
Data center expert Lynn Comp explains how AI's data demands challenge networks to improve bandwidth, responsiveness, and security. Without these advancements, networks may struggle, like skipping leg day in weightlifting.
Innovation with Empathy: A Q&A with Vivek Venkatesan
Vanguard lead data engineer and IEEE senior member Vivek Venkatesan shares how a pivotal Botswana project shaped his path, how trust turns innovation into impact , and much more.
CoolIT: 5 Fast Facts on Compute Efficiency
In this 5 Fast Facts on Compute Efficiency Q&A, CoolIT’s Ben Sutton unpacks how direct liquid cooling (DLC) drives PUE toward ~1.02, unlocks higher rack density, and where it beats immersion on cost and deployment.
Mark Grodzinsky on Building Ecosystems That Last
From Wi-Fi to AI, Mark Grodzinsky shares how chance turns, mentors, and market inflection points shaped his career – and why true innovation is about impact, not hype.
Compass & Schneider Launch Prefab Pod for AI Data Centers
The new EcoStruxure™ Pod accelerates data center readiness, reducing complexity, cost, and risk while boosting sustainability and AI workload support.
Microsoft’s Tannu Jiwnani on Responsible Innovation & Cybersecurity
From anti–money-laundering analytics to leading identity protection, Tannu Jiwnani shares how curiosity, resilience, and inclusive leadership shape responsible innovation and why diversity is security’s superpower.
Announcing TechArena’s 2025–2026 Voices of Innovation Fellows
Experts from across the compute industry provide their bold views and real-world expertise on AI era computing is driving business and societal opportunity.
.svg)
Podcasts
GEICO’s Rebecca Weekly on IT Transformation and OCP Innovation
In this episode, Rebecca Weekly shares how GEICO is rethinking cloud strategy and embracing OCP for improved efficiency, security, and cost savings in its infrastructure journey.
Data Insights: Arm’s Eddie Ramirez on Data Center Innovations
Join Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski as they chat with Eddie Ramirez from Arm about how chiplet innovations and compute efficiency are driving AI and transforming data center architecture.
From Desktops to Data Centers: Zane Ball on Silicon Innovation
In this episode – recorded live at the OCP Summit – host Allyson Klein catches up with Intel Corporate VP Zane Ball to discuss silicon innovation, AI evolution, and the future of enterprise adoption.
How Flex Manages Power, Heat and Scale in the AI Era: Part 2
Join us as Rob Campbell from Flex discusses the challenges and innovations in data centers, focusing on power, heat, and scale, while shaping the future of AI and sustainable solutions.
How Flex Manages Power, Heat and Scale in the AI Era: Part 1
Rob Campbell of Flex discusses how Flex is driving data center transformation with cutting-edge solutions like liquid cooling, AI-ready infrastructure, and vertical integration for global hyperscalers.
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.
Disruptive Security Advancement with VectorZero
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with VectorZero CTO and co-founder Sean Grimaldi about his extensive experience fighting bad actors to protect the nation’s security and how his learning at the CIA has informed his approach to elimination of attack vectors at VectorZero.
Observability in the Era of Distributed Computing with cPacket Networks
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with cPacket Networks CTO Ron Nevo about how observability has evolved for a multi-cloud to edge era and why his company is delivering four key components of observability solutions to customers.
Phoenix Rising: The Future of CPU Innovation with AMD
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with AMD's Lynn Comp about the changing landscape of CPU design and how AMD is poised to lead future innovation.
Data Center Innovation with OCP
TechArena host Allyson Klein chat’s with OCP’s VP of Market Intelligence and Innovation, Cliff Grossner, about the challenges facing data center innovation and how OCP has transformed to drive deeper partnerships with the industry and broaden its impact on data center innovation.
The Future of Open Solutions with OCP Chair Rebecca Weekly
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with OCP Chair and CloudFlare VP Rebecca Weekly about the future of open computing solutions, how regional demands drive the OCP mission, and the importance of sustainability.
OpenCompute Project’s Skyrocketing Contributions Shaping the Future from Edge to Cloud
TechArena Host Allyson Klein chats with Open Compute Foundation leaders Michael Schill and Steve Helvie about the organization’s rising contributions and what it means for broad adoption of open hardware configurations from edge to cloud.
