<description>&lt;p&gt;Did you know that DCD has a sister publication? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In April 2025, DCD acquired networking publication SDx, and with it now having been part of the InfraX family for a year, we thought it was about time we sat down with senior editor Ben Wodecki to give the publication a proper introduction. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tune into the episode to meet Ben and hear about what SDx covers, as well as a bit of a discussion on the key upcoming topics you can expect to see on the website. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Did you know that DCD has a sister publication? In April 2025, DCD acquired networking publication SDx, and with it now having been part of the InfraX family for a year, we thought it was about time we sat down with senior editor Ben Wodecki to give the publication a proper introduction. Tune into the episode to meet Ben and hear about what SDx covers, as well as a bit of a discussion on the key upcoming topics you can expect to see on the website.

Episode 104 - Re-introducing SDx, with senior editor Ben Wodecki

<description>&lt;p&gt;It can seem like GPUs get all the headlines when it comes to AI workloads, but there are a lot more challenges when it comes to handling massive training jobs. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We talk to Pradeep Vincent, Oracle’s Executive Vice President &amp;amp; Chief Technical Architect of OCI, about the importance of power and the oft-overlooked networking in large-scale AI clusters, particularly as we approach multibuilding scale, and potentially multi-campus. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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It can seem like GPUs get all the headlines when it comes to AI workloads, but there are a lot more challenges when it comes to handling massive training jobs. We talk to Pradeep Vincent, Oracle’s Executive Vice President &amp; Chief Technical Architect of OCI, about the importance of power and the oft-overlooked networking in large-scale AI clusters, particularly as we approach multibuilding scale, and potentially multi-campus.

Episode 103 - Networking at hyperscale with Pradeep Vincent, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

<description>&lt;p&gt;DCD catches up with Patrick Halley, president and CEO, Wireless Infrastructure Association, to discuss the requirements of the telecommunications industry’s infrastructure build-out. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Halley outlines how AI, fiber, and spectrum are essential for meeting the demands to support these networks, as he examines the opportunities for the mobile carriers, fiber providers, and tower companies. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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DCD catches up with Patrick Halley, president and CEO, Wireless Infrastructure Association, to discuss the requirements of the telecommunications industry’s infrastructure build-out. Halley outlines how AI, fiber, and spectrum are essential for meeting the demands to support these networks, as he examines the opportunities for the mobile carriers, fiber providers, and tower companies.

Bonus episode - The telco build out with Patrick Halley, Wireless Infrastructure Association

<description>&lt;p&gt;With the AI industry fueling a shift away from training and towards inference, and claiming agentic AI as its next frontier, the need for hardware to support workloads that require high-compute and low-latency performance has never been greater.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On this episode of Zero Downtime, DCD talks to Sumti Jairath, chief architect at SambaNova, about some of these driving forces, how the semiconductor industry has changed over the last decade, and what some of the biggest challenges facing chip companies right now are&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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With the AI industry fueling a shift away from training and towards inference, and claiming agentic AI as its next frontier, the need for hardware to support workloads that require high-compute and low-latency performance has never been greater.On this episode of Zero Downtime, DCD talks to Sumti Jairath, chief architect at SambaNova, about some of these driving forces, how the semiconductor industry has changed over the last decade, and what some of the biggest challenges facing chip companies right now are

Episode 102 - The training to inference passageway with Sumti Jairath, SambaNova

<description>&lt;p&gt;DCD speaks to Nayel Brihi, corporate energy analyst at BloombergNEF, about the state of energy procurement over the past year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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DCD speaks to Nayel Brihi, corporate energy analyst at BloombergNEF, about the state of energy procurement over the past year.

Episode 101 - Unpacking clean energy procurement with Nayel Brihi, BloombergNEF

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