In The Arena by TechArena

Cloud expert Venkata Gopi Kolla joins Allyson Klein to discuss the CDN "single point of failure" and a new IETF protocol for sub-second edge recovery and AI correctness. A must-listen for infrastructure leads.

Ishween Kaur, Generative AI Lead at Salesforce, shares practical lessons on building multilingual AI systems, closing language gaps, and scaling with trust and real-world feedback.

Fermilab’s Silvia Zorzetti explains how quantum computing and sensing are evolving, where they outperform classical systems, and what’s next for the field.

Hedgehog CEO Marc Austin joins Data Insights to break down open-source, automated networking for AI clusters—cutting cost, avoiding lock-in, and keeping GPUs fed from training to inference.

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.

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.

Runpod head of engineering Brennen Smith joins a Data Insights episode to unpack GPU-dense clouds, hidden storage bottlenecks, and a “universal orchestrator” for long-running AI agents at scale.

Allyson Klein talks with author and Google/Intel alum Wanjiku Kamau on moving past AI skepticism, learning fast, and using new tools with intention—so readers start where they are and explore AI with hope.

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.

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.