Data center industry veteran Lynn Comp shares insights from her career, discussing the importance of adaptability, emotional IQ, and practical tech. She highlights three patterns: customers prefer reliability over high-performance solutions, network limitations can negate compute power, and economic realities can override technological enthusiasm.
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.
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’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.
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.
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.
In this episode, OCP CEO George Tchaparian shares how OCP is driving AI infrastructure innovation, fostering collaboration, and tackling scalability, efficiency, and sustainability challenges in data centers and beyond.
JetCool Founder & CEO Bernie Malouin discusses the company’s breakthrough liquid cooling tech, which targets processor hotspots with jets of coolant to boost efficiency across intensive workloads.
Learn how CoolIT Systems is driving efficiency and performance in AI and data centers with cutting-edge liquid cooling solutions in our latest Data Insights podcast.
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.
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.
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.
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with cloud innovator Abby Kearns about the state of cloud automation and how further advancement is required to keep apace of growing cloud complexity.
TechArena host Allyson Klein talks with Ampere Chief Product Officer Jeff Wittich on rise of Ampere fueled computing in the cloud and why Ampere's lineup places it in an excellent position for the next wave of cloud growth.
Allyson chats with Vast Data co-founder and CMO Jeff Denworth about Universal Storage and why it aims to disrupt traditional data paradigms.