For this podcast, Brian connected with Pliops Global VP of Products and Marketing, Tony Afshary. Brian has known Tony for a long time, so this is an effortless conversation with great insight into Pliops, accelerator card technologies, what is driving the market, and what the future might hold.

There continues to be increasing interest in liquid cooling technology but also trepidation in the unlikely event of some sort of leak or spill. Enter ZutaCore HyperCool2 direct-on-chip Enhanced Nucleation Evaporator (ENE), a single, closed-loop two-phase, waterless liquid cooling solution that yields unparalleled heat dissipation at the chip level.

Brian invites Jeff Ready to talk about //Scale Computing and their HCI product and edge computing during this very informative podcast. StorageReview.com recently profiled //Scale Computing and created a short youtube video showing the steps to set up the //Scale Computing HCI cluster. Let’s say it works as advertised.

Brian invited Genius Lab Guy Kevin O’Brien to step out of his comfort zone and answer burning questions from the community and a few topics pulled from social media.

Brian calls on Wayne Duso, Vice President, AWS Storage, Edge, and Data Governance, to join him in this podcast and talk about data transfer and the power of the AWS “Snow” offerings. You might be amazed at the computational power, not just data transfer capabilities, that’s available within the Snow family.

Storagereview.com has always had a strong relationship with Supermicro with engagements in hardware testing, integration, and multi-vendor environments. There seems to be a Supermicro server somewhere in the lab. Supermicro has been at the forefront of hardware and software development innovation.

Brian gets Curtis Anderson of Panasas to join him for a deep and detailed view of HPC. Curtis is the Software Architect at Panasas and co-chair of the MLCommons Storage Working Group. What is MLCommons Storage Working Group? MLCommons is an industry consortium working to accelerate machine learning and increase its positive impact on society.

There has been a lot of buzz around liquid cooling, especially when discussing performance degradation when chips overheat. Liquid cooling technology is a successful solution to keeping components cool and operating at peak performance.

Pure Storage kicked off Pure//Accelerate techfest22 earlier this month in Los Angeles, and that gave Brian a chance to catch up with Dan Kogan, Vice President, Product Management and Product Marketing at Pure Storage. Dan leads product management for new business, cloud, and the as-a-Service group within Pure’s FlashArray BU, along with leading FlashArray’s overall product