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.
Oh What a Fine Mess We’ve Made: The State of Cloud Automation
Thoughts on the state of cloud stack management and automation with the rise of cloud management complexity.
Cloud Computing at a quarter century
As we reach the 25th anniversary of cloud computing we set off to see what technology innovations will shape the next wave of cloud computing adoption.
The Future of SuperComputing: Unlocking Access
A recap of SC’22 with a focus on silicon, platform, and scientific innovation highlights.
Universal Storage Disruption with Vast Data
Have you ever heard of Universal Storage? It’s a new class of storage management which is challenging the standard storage pyramid driven by a disruptive force of a company called Vast Data.
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Podcasts
Bill Gropp on the NCSA and the Future of Supercomputing Innovation
In this podcast, NCSA Director Bill Gropp explores the latest advanced computing trends, from AI innovations to groundbreaking research on supercomputing climate models, and how this tech is transforming science and society.
Revolutionizing AI Workloads with Advanced Data Center Solutions
Discover how AI is transforming data centers, with innovations in high-speed networking, emulation, and hyperscale infrastructure driving efficiency and performance in the era of AI workloads.
OCP Summit Recap: Innovation, Collaboration & Future Focus
OCP’s Rob Coyle shares insights on AI, cooling innovations, and open hardware’s role in transforming data centers as the industry accelerates toward scalable, sustainable infrastructure.
AI’s Impact on OCP: Scaling Innovation and Infrastructure Growth
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's Innovative Liquid Cooling Tech Powers High-Performance AI
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.
CoolIT: Revolutionizing Data Centers with Liquid Cooling Tech
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.
Ampere Advances in the Data Center with Jeff Wittich
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Ampere Chief Product Officer Jeff Wittich about his company’s progress in winning data center deployments, advances in performance and sustainability, and pushing the limits on core density.
Security in the AI Era with Fortinet’s Srija Allam and Julian Petersohn
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Fortinet security experts Srija Allam and Julian Petersohn about the expansive Fortinet solution portfolio and how the company is leaning into AI to help deliver the protection customers require.
Delivery of the CXL Vision with the CXL Consortium's Kurtis Bowman and Kurt Lender
TechArena host Allyson Klein sits down with the marketing co-chairs of the CXL Consortium at SC’23 to discuss the introduction of the new 3.1 spec, the emergence of true CXL 2.0 solutions, and what comes next from this disruptive standard that will re-define data center infrastructure.
Efficient and Secure Data Center Computing with AMD's Robert Hormuth and Prabhu Jayanna
TechArena host Allyson Klein sat down with AMD’s Robert Hormuth and Prabhu Jayanna at the Open Compute Summit to discuss the advancements AMD EPYC processors have delivered in performance, performance efficiency and security capability including AMD’s Infinity Guard technology.
The Quest for Broad Data Center Advancement with Arm’s Eddie Ramirez
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Arm’s Eddie Ramirez at the Open Compute Summit about the architecture’s progress in data center, growing a thriving ecosystem, and the sustainability advantages of Arm’s design making it even more attractive to data center operators.
Storage Innovation in the AI Era with Solidigm’s Roger Corell and Tahmid Rahman
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Solidigm’s Roger Corell and Tahmid Rahman at the OCP Summit about their company’s heritage in the storage arena and how their SSD portfolio delivers the performance and efficiency required for the AI era.
