Data Center
Highlights
The State of Open Compute Infrastructure Innovation
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.
Microsoft and AMD Extend AI Collaboration at Build
TechArena’s take on Microsoft Build announcement of the world’s first MI300X instances arriving on Azure AI.
Supermicro Leverages Its Heritage of Innovation to Fuel AI Era Compute
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.
A Revolution of Open Infrastructure in Lisbon at OCP Regional Summit
We kick off this week’s reporting from Open Compute Project’s Regional Summit in Lisbon with some thoughts on historic innovation and how it shapes society.
Delivering AI Performance at Scale with CoreWeave
The TechArena’s reflection on the disruptive innovation that CoreWeave is driving into the AI service arena fueled by Solidigm QLC NAND and VAST Data platform innovation.
VAST Data Soars with Industry Heavyweights
VAST Data reveals more of their AI strategy with collaboration announcements with NVIDIA and Supermicro.
Hypertec Shrinks the Data Center with Immersion-Born Servers
Hypertec’s immersion-born servers cut cooling power by 50% and shrink 10MW deployments from 100,000 sq ft to around 10,000—showing liquid cooling isn’t experimental anymore; it’s essential.
Immersion Cooling: Revolutionizing AI & Edge Computing
Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski welcome Mohan Potheri of Hypertec to explore how immersion cooling slashes energy use, shrinks data-center footprints, and powers sustainable, high-density AI, HPC, and edge solutions on this Data Insights episode.
Mid-Year Report: AI Spending Soars as Data Centers Face Heat
Matty Bakkeren checks in on how data center trends are playing out in 2025, from nations pouring billions into AI supremacy projects to how data centers are trying to offset massive energy needs.
Platform9 and Commvault Partner on Private Cloud Protection
New integration delivers enterprise-grade backup, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience for virtualized and container-based workloads across Platform9’s Private Cloud Director.
TechArena's Allyson Klein: Silicon Valley Kid to Tech Storyteller
From childhood gaming consoles to guiding Intel’s message to market, Allyson Klein has spent decades proving that the best tech stories happen when engineers feel invited to share what they’ve created.
Qumulo Showcases Cloud Data Fabric Innovation
At Cloud Field Day 23, Qumulo showcased its cloud data fabric, unifying hybrid environments and solving real-world challenges in media, pharma, public safety, and more with strict data consistency.
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Podcasts
Disruptive Chiplet Innovation Delivers the Next Wave of Data Center Performance with Palo Alto Electron’s Jawad Nasrullah
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.
Accelerating European Data Center Buildout with OCP’s Raul Alvarez
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.
Delivering a Sustainable Data Platform for the AI Era with Weka, Data Insights Series Sponsored by Solidigm
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.
SONIC Network Innovation for the AI Era with PLVision’s Taras Chornyi
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with PLVision Director of Open Networking Solutions and Strategy, Taras Chornyi, about the progress of SONIC and open network infrastructure for the AI Era.
Riding the AI Data Pipeline with VAST Data, a Data Insights Series podcast with Solidigm
TechArena host Allyson Klein is joined by Solidigm’s Jeniece Wnorowski as they continue to explore rapid data innovation fueling today’s computing. In today’s episode, they chat with VAST Data’s Global VP of Engineering, Subramanian Kartik, as he describes how his team has delivered a breakthrough data platform for the AI Era.
Fostering the Cutting Edge of Data Center Innovation with OCP’s Lesya Dymyd
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.
Greenfield Data Center Explosion in the AI Era with HED’s Sara Martin
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with HED associate principal Sara Martin about the trends in greenfield data center buildout and what drives determination of greenfield site prioritization.
Connectivity for the AI Era with Alphawave Semi’s Tony Chan Carusone
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Alphawave Semi’s CTO Tony Chan Carusone regarding the unique opportunity for connectivity innovation to fuel the era of AI and why Alphawave is perfectly poised for IP, chiplet and custom solution delivery.
Exploring the Birth of the Universe with the NASA Webb Telescope
TechArena host Allyson Klein sits down with NASA’s Matt Greenhouse to discuss the Webb telescope project, a mission he has been working on for decades, and how it will shape our understanding of the birth of the universe, exoplanets, and potentially life beyond Earth.
Scalable, Open-Source Authorization with Cerbos
TechArena host Allyson Klein talks with Cerbos co-founder and CEO Emre Baran of the importance of authorization solutions and why he founded Cerbos to deliver scalable code that developers can seamlessly integrate into cloud native applications.
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.
