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You Can’t Have It All: Managing Expectations in Complex Projects

October 8, 2024

In this post, industry veteran Jim Fister highlights the importance of clear goals and managing expectations in tech projects, emphasizing the challenge of balancing schedule, features, and budget.

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Don’t Skip Leg Day

October 4, 2024

Data center expert Lynn Comp explains how AI's data demands challenge networks to improve bandwidth, responsiveness, and security. Without these advancements, networks may struggle, like skipping leg day in weightlifting.

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Voltron Data Unleashes Accelerator Native Performance at Scale

September 18, 2024

In this video, Voltron Data’s CEO and Co-Founder Josh Patterson explains how the Theseus engine boosts enterprise data systems with GPU acceleration, tackling large-scale analytics and data challenges at petabyte-scale.

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How Security Tech has Evolved to Make Us Safer (or not) Since 9/11

September 11, 2024

In this blog, industry veteran Jim Fister reflects on the impact of technology, redundancy, and human bias on global security, especially after 9/11, highlighting both optimism and frustration.

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OPEN Innovation to Face Off Data Center Challenges

September 4, 2024

Why Companies Should Apply the Power of OPEN Innovation to Data Center Infrastructure

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3 Exec Insights on Cultivating Successful Industry Partnerships

September 3, 2024

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.

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Iceotope Delivers Great Chemistry for Cool Data Centers

August 21, 2024

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.

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It’s No Coincidence that Wait-and-See Rhymes with Latency

August 20, 2024

Jim Fister dives deep into the intricacies of system memory, latency, and data management, exploring how modern computing architectures handle data retrieval and processing.

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Contextual AI and WEKA Partner for Enterprise Class AI Activation

August 8, 2024

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.

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Data Center Industry Veteran Lynn Comp Shares 3 Patterns Observed Over 30 Years in Tech

August 7, 2024

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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Dog Days of Summer – Looking forward to OCP Summit

August 5, 2024

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.

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It’s Gettin’ Hot in Here: Industry veteran Jim Fister unpacks the history of the data center

July 30, 2024

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.

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Powering AI with ZincFive’s Sustainable Battery Solutions

October 2, 2024

Tod Higinbotham, COO of ZincFive, discusses the role of nickel-zinc batteries in supporting AI workloads, improving data center efficiency, and advancing sustainability in power infrastructure.

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Revolutionizing RAID: Graid's Supreme Solution for Modern Data Challenges

September 3, 2024

Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski chat with Kelley Osburn of Graid about SupremeRAID™ and its role in tackling high-performance storage challenges in data-driven environments.

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Data Center in the AI Era with Jen Huffstetler

August 22, 2024

Join Allyson Klein as she welcomes former colleague/ industry innovator Jen Huffstetler. Jen shares her extensive experience driving advancements from client devices to the data center, including groundbreaking technologies like Centrino and 3D packaging.

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Advanced Packaging Innovations in the Semiconductor Industry with Chee Ping Lee of Lam Research

August 12, 2024

In this podcast, learn about the challenges of silicon advancement, the importance of advanced packaging, and how Lam is driving breakthroughs to support the future of AI and chiplet ecosystems.

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Sneak peek: What to expect at the OCP conference with Schneider Electric’s Alex Rakow and Intel’s Eric Dahlen

July 26, 2024

Join host Allyson Klein in this insightful episode of Tech Arena, featuring Eric Dahlen from Intel and Alex Rakow from Schneider Electric. As co-chairs of the Compute Sustainability group within the Open Compute Project, Eric and Alex discuss their roles, the initiative's goals, and the impact of AI on data center sustainability. They delve into the challenges and innovations in power and cooling technologies, embodied carbon, and circularity practices. Get a sneak peek into what to expect at the upcoming OCP Summit and how industry leaders are pushing the boundaries of sustainable technology.

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Sprinting Towards an AI Future with Microsoft’s Nidhi Chappell

May 20, 2024

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Microsoft’s Vice President of Azure AI and HPC Infrastructure, Nidhi Chappell, in advance of Microsoft Build 2024. Nidhi shares how her organization is accelerating deployments of critical technology to fuel the insatiable demand for AI around the world and how Microsoft’s AI tools including co-pilot, Open AI and more have been met with overwhelming engagement from developers. She also talks about Microsoft’s silicon plans and strategic collaborations with NVIDIA and AMD.

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Powering AI with ZincFive’s Sustainable Battery Solutions

Tod Higinbotham, COO of ZincFive, discusses the role of nickel-zinc batteries in supporting AI workloads, improving data center efficiency, and advancing sustainability in power infrastructure.

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Podcast
Data Center

Revolutionizing RAID: Graid's Supreme Solution for Modern Data Challenges

Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski chat with Kelley Osburn of Graid about SupremeRAID™ and its role in tackling high-performance storage challenges in data-driven environments.

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Podcast
Data Center

Data Center in the AI Era with Jen Huffstetler

Join Allyson Klein as she welcomes former colleague/ industry innovator Jen Huffstetler. Jen shares her extensive experience driving advancements from client devices to the data center, including groundbreaking technologies like Centrino and 3D packaging.

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Podcast
Data Center

Advanced Packaging Innovations in the Semiconductor Industry with Chee Ping Lee of Lam Research

In this podcast, learn about the challenges of silicon advancement, the importance of advanced packaging, and how Lam is driving breakthroughs to support the future of AI and chiplet ecosystems.

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Podcast
Data Center

Sneak peek: What to expect at the OCP conference with Schneider Electric’s Alex Rakow and Intel’s Eric Dahlen

Join host Allyson Klein in this insightful episode of Tech Arena, featuring Eric Dahlen from Intel and Alex Rakow from Schneider Electric. As co-chairs of the Compute Sustainability group within the Open Compute Project, Eric and Alex discuss their roles, the initiative's goals, and the impact of AI on data center sustainability. They delve into the challenges and innovations in power and cooling technologies, embodied carbon, and circularity practices. Get a sneak peek into what to expect at the upcoming OCP Summit and how industry leaders are pushing the boundaries of sustainable technology.

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Sprinting Towards an AI Future with Microsoft’s Nidhi Chappell

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Microsoft’s Vice President of Azure AI and HPC Infrastructure, Nidhi Chappell, in advance of Microsoft Build 2024. Nidhi shares how her organization is accelerating deployments of critical technology to fuel the insatiable demand for AI around the world and how Microsoft’s AI tools including co-pilot, Open AI and more have been met with overwhelming engagement from developers. She also talks about Microsoft’s silicon plans and strategic collaborations with NVIDIA and AMD.

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