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.
Scality Showcases Real-World Resilient Cloud Storage Solutions
At Cloud Field Day 23, Scality highlighted real-world deployments that tackle petabyte-scale challenges with resilience, flexibility, and customer-driven innovation.
TechArena Report: 2025 Storage Demands Call for a Change
As AI drives explosive data growth, next-gen SSDs deliver the speed, density, and efficiency to outpace HDDs—reshaping storage strategy for tomorrow’s data-centric data centers.
What’s next in CVEs Shaping Cybersecurity Compliance in 2025?
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) landscape is shifting—governance is changing, and security pros are moving beyond raw CVE counts to focus on context-aware, risk-based vulnerability management.
Quantum Momentum: Nearing a Tipping Point or Just Growing Hype?
Quantum breakthroughs from Microsoft, Quantinuum, and Google signal accelerating progress—but are we nearing a tipping point or still deep in the hype cycle?
OVHcloud Innovates Cloud Infrastructure with AI, Sustainable Tech
OVHcloud’s infrastructure strategy includes value chain integration, water-cooled data centers and servers with high-performance storage capabilities, setting it apart in the cloud industry.
Solidigm Spotlights AI Storage and Liquid Cooling at OCP
From breakthrough 122TB SSDs to the industry’s first liquid-cooled storage, Solidigm’s Avi Shetty unpacks how storage is powering AI workloads from hyperscale to neo-cloud.
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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.
Disruptive Security Advancement with VectorZero
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with VectorZero CTO and co-founder Sean Grimaldi about his extensive experience fighting bad actors to protect the nation’s security and how his learning at the CIA has informed his approach to elimination of attack vectors at VectorZero.
Observability in the Era of Distributed Computing with cPacket Networks
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with cPacket Networks CTO Ron Nevo about how observability has evolved for a multi-cloud to edge era and why his company is delivering four key components of observability solutions to customers.
Phoenix Rising: The Future of CPU Innovation with AMD
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with AMD's Lynn Comp about the changing landscape of CPU design and how AMD is poised to lead future innovation.
Data Center Innovation with OCP
TechArena host Allyson Klein chat’s with OCP’s VP of Market Intelligence and Innovation, Cliff Grossner, about the challenges facing data center innovation and how OCP has transformed to drive deeper partnerships with the industry and broaden its impact on data center innovation.
The Future of Open Solutions with OCP Chair Rebecca Weekly
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with OCP Chair and CloudFlare VP Rebecca Weekly about the future of open computing solutions, how regional demands drive the OCP mission, and the importance of sustainability.
OpenCompute Project’s Skyrocketing Contributions Shaping the Future from Edge to Cloud
TechArena Host Allyson Klein chats with Open Compute Foundation leaders Michael Schill and Steve Helvie about the organization’s rising contributions and what it means for broad adoption of open hardware configurations from edge to cloud.
