Data Center
Highlights
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.
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.
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.
HPE Greenlake Paves a Path to a Hybrid SAP ERP Future
A solution from HPE and SAP aims to simplify SAP Cloud ERP adoption with managed private cloud, ecosystem integration, and AI agents for enterprise transformation.
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Podcasts
An Open Computing Landscape with OpenUK’s Amanda Brock
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock live from the OCP Regional Summit in Prague on her organization’s mission to drive open software, hardware and data contributions for UK developers.
The In-Memory Future of Applications with Oracle
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Oracle VP Shasank Chavan about in-memory databases, customer demands in a data centric world, and how infrastructure must change to fuel customer needs.
The Future of Semi Innovation from Disruptive Memory to Chiplets with Alphawave Semi
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Alphawave Semi’s Letizia Guiliano about the future of semiconductor innovation across memory, optical and interoperable chiplet solutions and how her company is poised to deliver leadership innovation rooted in standards.
CXL Enabled Memory Innovation with Memverge
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Memverge founder and CEO Charles Fan about his company’s disruptive vision for breaking through data center memory limitations and what the CXL standard will bring to infrastructure innovation.
Breakthrough Data Center Platform Innovation with AMD
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with AMD senior fellow and CXL technical taskforce co-chair Mahesh Wagh regarding AMD’s entry of CXL platforms into the market gen 4 AMD EYPC processors and his organization’s strategy to deliver disruptive innovation utilizing CXL capability in the years ahead.
UCIe Unleashing Chiplet Innovation with NVIDIA
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with NVIDIA Data Center Product Architect and Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express organization board member Durgesh Srivastava about the new UCIe specification and how it will reshape the foundations of compute architectures.
Inside Confidential Computing with Hushmesh & Invary
Allyson Klein hosts Manu Fontaine (Hushmesh) and Jason Rogers (Invary) to unpack TEEs, attestation, and how confidential computing is moving from pilots to real deployments across data center and edge.
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.
SayTEC Powers Scalable, Secure, Sovereign IT Infrastructure
SayTEC redefines IT with a zero trust, hyper-converged platform delivering sovereign cloud, seamless scalability, and military-grade security for critical industries.
Flexibility at the Edge: Pragmatic Semiconductor’s Bold Approach
In this podcast, Pragmatic Semi CEO David Moore shares how flexible, sustainable ICs are unlocking new edge AI and IoT applications—powered by a low-carbon, high-volume fab model.
Protecting Against Quantum Cybersecurity Threats with Winbond
In this In the Arena episode, Winbond’s Jun Kawaguchi discusses their industry-leading strategies for tackling next-gen cybersecurity threats, ensuring robust protection for the future.
PCI-SIG’s Al Yanes on PCIe 7.0, HPC, and the Future of Interconnects
In this podcast, PCI-SIG President Al Yanes explores PCI-SIG's journey to PCIe 7.0, advancements in copper and optical specs, and their pivotal role in HPC and AI.
