Unlocking Storage Innovation: Dell in Focus

This podcast examines how HPE is meeting AI’s soaring compute demands with CPU/GPU advances, hybrid cloud models, and Neo cloud services that enable faster upgrades, liquid cooling, and flexible, consumption-based infrastructure.

This podcast features VAST Data’s Jeff Denworth and Randy Hayes detailing their “operating system for AI,” a disaggregated, full-stack platform integrating exabyte-scale NVMe storage, high-performance databases, GPU-optimized compute, and vector search to support AI training, fine-tuning, and agentic workflows, with automated data curation, auditability, and federal zero-trust compliance to prevent data poisoning and enable secure, large-scale analytics.

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.

Intel’s Dr. Darren Pulsipher explains how AI’s rapid growth drives innovation but raises energy concerns, emphasizing smaller CPU-based models that cut costs and power use while urging experimentation with AI and strong data management skills to stay competitive.

This podcast details how Nokia equips federal data centers for massive AI workloads with lossless, high-bandwidth networks, event-driven automation, and quantum-resistant encryption, leveraging Ultra Ethernet Consortium standards and U.S. security certifications to maximize GPU utilization and support classified DoD deployments.

This podcast explores how NetApp is tackling soaring storage demands, as CTO Jim Cosby highlights intelligent data infrastructure, built-in ransomware protection, and AI-ready storage strategies that help public agencies manage massive datasets securely and efficiently.

This podcast examines how AI and high-performance computing are driving data centers to power densities of 300 kW+ per rack, as Vertiv’s Bob Silkowitz details advanced liquid cooling, modular containerized designs, and power strategies ranging from nuclear to gas turbines, along with dark-fiber connectivity and Carahsoft partnerships for scalable, sustainable federal infrastructure.

This podcast highlights how Equinix serves as a global hub for digital infrastructure, connecting networks, cloud providers, and public sector organizations while supporting AI power needs and expanding government reach through its partnership with Carahsoft.

This podcast dives into how AI is reshaping data center networking, as Juniper’s Greg Bensimon discusses high-density compute, cutting-edge cooling, scalable architectures, and the battle between InfiniBand and Ethernet, along with zero-trust security and AI-driven operations.

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.