Carahsoft Data Center Innovation Podcast Series - State of the Data Center Today: Dell & NVIDIA
Date: October 2, 2025
This podcast explores the rise of AI factories - data centers built to convert energy and data into AI “tokens” - as NVIDIA and Dell detail how federal agencies must rethink power, cooling, and compute while leveraging their AI Factory partnership to scale token generation, speed model training, and extend hardware performance for massive AI workloads.
Meet our Speakers:
Shane Shaneman – Senior AI Strategist, Public Sector | Government Affairs, NVIDIA
Dan Carroll – Field CTO & Senior Director, Solutions Management, Dell Technologies
Meet our Moderator:
Scott Robohn
Scott Robohn has over 30 years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale Internet and IT Infrastructure and associated technologies for CSPs, ISPs, Data Center Operators, US Government organizations, and Enterprises. He’s served in a variety of end user and vendor roles in operations, support, engineering, architecture, technical sales, training, community development, and leadership. His vendor employee experience includes Cisco, Juniper Networks, Nokia, and DriveNets. He is Co-Founder and CEO of Solutional, delivering fractional CTO, technology consulting, and GTM services, is the co-founder of the Network Automation Forum (NAF), and created the Total Network Operations project and podcast (TNOps). He's a seasoned presenter and keynote speaker. Scott's engagements span a wide variety of interesting clients and projects in Networking, AI, Automation, Data Centers, Operations, Mobility, Security, Silicon, staying up-to-date with the critical trends.