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AI Is Squeezing Storage Supply—and VAST Wants Your Flash
AI demand is tightening HDD and NAND supply—and prices may follow. VAST is betting on flash reclamation and KV-cache persistence as storage starts acting more like memory.
2026 Predictions: A Year of Human and Machine Revolution
Allyson Klein predicts inference spreading from cloud to edge, agentic oversight reshaping ops, privacy battles intensifying, scientific computing facing brain drain, and quantum finally breaking through.
RackRenew Turns Decommissioned OCP Hardware into Ready Capacity
RackRenew remanufactures OCP compliant-infrastructure into certified, warranty-backed assemblies—standardized, tested, and ready to deploy for faster capacity without bespoke engineering.
5 Data Infrastructure Shifts That Will Define Enterprise AI in 2026
These data-infrastructure shifts will determine which enterprises scale AI in 2026, from real-time context and agentic guardrails to governance, efficiency, and a more resilient data foundation.
Giga Computing: Rack-Scale, Regional, and Ready for Inference
From circularity to U.S. assembly, Giga Computing lays out a rack-scale roadmap tuned for the next phase of AI—where inference drives scale and regional supply chains become a competitive edge.
8 Ways Power, Policy, & Public Trust will Reshape Data Centers
In Part 2 of Matty Bakkeren’s 2026 predictions series, he explores how regulation, sovereignty, and public trust will push data centers to behave more like utilities than tech projects.
3 Exec Insights on Cultivating Successful Industry Partnerships
Tech industry vet Lynn Comp explores the benefits of industry partnerships and why it’s critical to understand one’s own business drivers and their partner’s to achieve success.
Iceotope Delivers Great Chemistry for Cool Data Centers
Iceotope's liquid cooling tech is shaking up data centers as AI drives the need for efficient heat management. Dr. Kelley Mullick explains the shift from air to liquid cooling, highlighting Iceotope's sustainable solutions.
It’s No Coincidence that Wait-and-See Rhymes with Latency
Jim Fister dives deep into the intricacies of system memory, latency, and data management, exploring how modern computing architectures handle data retrieval and processing.
Advanced Packaging: Driving the AI Era Forward
AI is driving an acceleration of compute demands fueled by the proliferation of large language models across industry use cases. This requirement comes as traditional semiconductor technology pushes against the laws of physics with the slowing of Moore’s Law.
Contextual AI and WEKA Partner for Enterprise Class AI Activation
This week, Contextual AI partnered with WEKA to deliver enterprise AI services on Google Cloud using RAG 2.0 from Facebook AI Research. WEKA's platform boosted performance, achieving a 3X increase in key AI use cases, 4X faster model checkpointing, and reduced costs.
Data Center Industry Veteran Lynn Comp Shares 3 Patterns Observed Over 30 Years in Tech
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.
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Podcasts
Universal Storage Disruption - Vast Data Podcast
Allyson chats with Vast Data co-founder and CMO Jeff Denworth about Universal Storage and why it aims to disrupt traditional data paradigms.
How Rose-Hulman Modernized Its Data Center for Student Success
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology shares how Azure Local, AVD, and GPU-powered infrastructure are transforming IT operations and enabling device-agnostic access to high-performance engineering software.
Nebius at SC25: Building the Neocloud for Enterprise AI
From SC25 in St. Louis, Nebius shares how its neocloud, Token Factory PaaS, and supercomputer-class infrastructure are reshaping AI workloads, enterprise adoption, and efficiency at hyperscale.
Giga Computing on Rack-Scale AI: From Training to Inference
Recorded at #OCPSummit25, Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Giga Computing’s Chen Lee to unpack GIGAPOD and GPM, DLC/immersion cooling, regional assembly, and the pivot to inference.
RackRenew & Circularity: Remanufacture, Recertify, Redeploy
From #OCPSummit25, this Data Insights episode unpacks how RackRenew remanufactures OCP-compliant racks, servers, networking, power, and storage—turning hyperscaler discards into ready-to-deploy capacity.
From OCP 2025: Arm’s Chiplet Push and the AI Ecosystem Play
Allyson Klein and co-host Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Arm’s Eddie Ramirez to unpack Arm Total Design’s growth, the FCSA chiplet spec contribution to OCP, a new board seat, and how storage fits AI’s surge.
Immersion, Not Hype: Midas on Liquid Cooling at OCP
Midas Immersion Cooling CEO Scott Sickmiller joins a Data Insights episode at OCP 2025 to demystify single-phase immersion, natural vs. forced convection, and what it takes to do liquid cooling at AI scale.
