Carahsoft Data Center Innovation Podcast Series - High-Performance Compute: AMD in Focus
Date: October 24, 2025
This podcast discusses how AMD is modernizing data centers with open standards, AI-ready hardware, and a broad CPU, GPU, and FPGA portfolio, while executives highlight supply-chain strategies, open-source investments, and partnerships that boost performance, cut costs, and maximize space.
Meet our Speakers:
Derek Dicker – CVP, Enterprise and HPC Business Group, AMD
Michael Detwiler – Senior Manager, Enterprise and HPC Business Group, AMD
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.