AI Infrastructure Field Day 3
24 Episodes
Tech Field Day returns to Santa Clara, California on September 10–11 for AI Infrastructure Field Day 3, streaming live on the Tech Field Day website, LinkedIn, and Techstrong TV. The event features leading companies pushing the limits of performance, scalability, and AI innovation, starting Wednesday with Broadcom showcasing the Tomahawk Ultra and Jericho 4 Fabric Router, followed by Hammerspace demonstrating unified data platforms, and Rafay highlighting self-service and sovereign AI. Thursday kicks off with Mirantis exploring production AI solutions, CTERA discussing enterprise intelligence, and HPE closing with its turnkey Private Cloud for AI. Delegates include Brian Martin and Guy Currier from The Futurum Group, with Mirantis and Rafay presenting at Tech Field Day for the first time. Join the conversation live with #AIIFD3 or catch any session later on the Tech Field Day YouTube channel.
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Pushing the Boundaries of AI Performance, Scale, and Innovation at AI Infrastructure Field Day 3
Episode 1
Tech Field Day returns to Santa Clara, California on September 10–11 for AI Infrastructure Field Day 3, streaming live on the Tech Field Day website, LinkedIn, and Techstrong TV. The event features leading companies pushing the limits of performance, scalability, and AI innovation, starting Wedne...
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Broadcom Tomahawk 6 Scaling AI Networks with the World’s First 102.4 Tbps Ethernet Switch
Episode 2
Tomahawk 6 is the world’s first 102.4 Tbps Ethernet switch, designed to meet the demands of massive AI infrastructure. In this session, we’ll show how it enables both scale-up and scale-out networking, with unmatched bandwidth, energy efficiency, and congestion control. We’ll also debunk common m...
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Broadcom Tomahawk Ultra Low latency High performance and Reliable Ethernet for HPC and AI
Episode 3
Tomahawk Ultra shatters the myths about Ethernet’s ability to address high-performance networking. In this session we will show how we added features for lossless networking, reduced latency and increased performance – all while maintaining compatibility with Ethernet.
The presentation introduce...
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Jericho4: Enabling Distributed AI Computing Across Data Centers with Broadcom
Episode 4
Jericho4 – Ethernet Fabric Router is a purpose-built platform for the next generation of distributed AI infrastructure. In this session, we will examine how Jericho4 pushes beyond traditional scaling limits, delivering unmatched bandwidth, integrated security, and true lossless performance—while ...
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What is AI Ready Storage, with Hammerspace
Episode 5
AI Ready Storage is data infrastructure designed to break down silos and give enterprises seamless, high-performance access to their data wherever it lives. With 73% of enterprise data trapped in silos and 87% of AI projects failing to reach production, the bottleneck isn’t GPUs—it’s data. Tradit...
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Activating Tier 0 Storage Within GPU and CPU-based Compute Cluster with Hammerspace
Episode 6
The highest performing storage available today is an untapped resource within your server clusters that can be activated by Hammerspace to accelerate AI workloads and increase GPU utilization. This session covers how Hammerspace unifies local NVMe across server clusters as a protected, ultra-fast...
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The Open Flash Platform Initiative with Hammerspace
Episode 7
The Open Flash Platform (OFP) Initiative is a multi-member industry collaboration founded in July 2025. The initiative’s goal is to redefine flash storage architecture, particularly for high-performance AI and data-centric workloads, by replacing traditional storage servers with an open approach ...
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Accelerating AI Infrastructure Adoption for GPU Providers and Enterprises with Rafay
Episode 8
Haseeb Budhani, CEO of Rafay Systems, begins by highlighting the confusion surrounding Rafay's classification, noting that people variously describe it as a platform as a service (PaaS), orchestration, or middleware, and he welcomes feedback on which term best fits. He then pivots to discussing t...
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Bridging the gap from GPU-as-a-Service to AI Cloud with Rafay
Episode 9
Rafay CEO Haseeb Budhani argues that to truly be considered a cloud provider, organizations must offer self-service consumption, applications (or tools), and multi-tenancy. He contends that many GPU clouds currently rely on manual processes like spreadsheets and bare metal servers, which don't qu...
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From Infrastructure Chaos to Cloud-Like Control with Rafay
Episode 10
Rafay, founded seven years ago, initially focused on Kubernetes but has evolved to address the broader challenge of simplifying compute consumption across various environments. Their solution aims to provide self-service compute to companies across verticals.
Rafay typically engages with compani...
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Unlock AI Cloud Potential with the Rafay Platform
Episode 11
Haseeb Budhani, CEO of Rafay Systems, discusses how the Rafay platform can be used to address AI use cases. The platform provides a white-label ready portal that allows end users to self-service provision various compute resources and AI/ML platform services. This enables cloud providers and ente...
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Mirantis Company Overview
Episode 12
Kevin Kamel, VP of Product Management at Mirantis, opened with a wide-ranging overview of the company’s heritage, its evolution, and its current mission to redefine enterprise AI infrastructure. Mirantis began as a private cloud pioneer, gained deep expertise operating some of the world’s largest...
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Mirantis Solution Approach: GPU Cloud in a Box with Shaun O’Meara
Episode 13
Shaun O’Meara, CTO at Mirantis, presented the company’s approach to simplifying GPU infrastructure with what he described as a “GPU Cloud in a Box.” The concept addresses operational bottlenecks that enterprises and service providers face when deploying GPU environments: fragmented technology sta...
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Mirantis IaaS Technology Stack with Shaun O’Meara
Episode 14
Shaun O’Meara, CTO at Mirantis, described the infrastructure layer that underpins Mirantis k0rdent AI. The IaaS stack is designed to manage bare metal, networking, and storage resources in a way that removes friction from GPU operations. It provides operators with a tested foundation where GPU se...
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Mirantis PaaS Technology Stack with Shaun O’Meara
Episode 15
Shaun O’Meara, CTO at Mirantis, described the platform services layer that sits above the GPU infrastructure and is delivered through Mirantis k0rdent AI. The PaaS stack is organized around composable service templates that let operators expose training, inference, and data services to tenants. S...
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CTERA Intelligent Data Management from Edge to Core
Episode 16
Discover how CTERA addresses the complexities of hybrid cloud storage by enhancing operational efficiency and security, advocating a unified platform that extends from edge to cloud to manage increasing data demands. Practical use cases across various industries demonstrate how CTERA leverages AI...
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CTERA Enterprise Intelligence: Unify & Activate Your Private Data for Faster & Smarter Outcomes
Episode 17
This session offers insight into the seamless integration of AI within the CTERA Intelligent Data Platform. Embedded AI and analytic Enterprise Data Services are explored, along with the underlying data fabric that facilitates secure, global data connectivity and ensures high-performance access. ...
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Unlocking Enterprise Intelligence with CTERA MCP
Episode 18
In this session, learn how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) tackles the challenges of utilizing unstructured data by providing seamless, permission-aware integration for AI models and data sources, eliminating the need for intricate custom connectors. Discover how this ‘USB for AI’ enables enterp...
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From Storage to Enterprise Intelligence, Unlock AI Value from Private Unstructured Data with CTERA
Episode 19
Discover the obstacles that hinder AI adoption. What matters most? Data quality or quantity? Understand the strategy CTERA uses for curating data to create trustworthy, AI-ready datasets that overcome silos and security challenges, translating raw data into meaningful and actionable insights.
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Your turnkey AI Factory for Rapid Development with Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Episode 20
The vast majority of enterprise AI initiatives fail to deliver ROI, not because of a lack of innovation, but due to a significant gap between development and production. This session will explore the “token economics” behind these failures and introduce HPE Private Cloud AI, a turnkey AI factory ...
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The AI Chasm: Bridging the gap from pilot to production with Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Episode 21
The AI market is booming with innovation, yet a significant and costly gap exists between the proof-of-concept phase and successful production deployment. A staggering number of AI projects fail to deliver on their promise, often stalling in “pilot purgatory” due to fragmented tools, unpredictabl...
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The AI Factory: A strategic overview with Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Episode 22
Many organizations find that their AI initiatives, despite early promise, fail to deliver a positive ROI. This can be traced to “token economics”—the complex and often unpredictable costs associated with consuming AI models, particularly in the public cloud. This session will dissect these hidden...
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The AI Factory in Action: Basketball play classification with Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Episode 23
This session provides a live demonstration of a practical AI application built on top of HPE Private Cloud AI (PCAI). The speaker, Mark Seither, showcases a basketball play classification application that leverages a machine learning model trained on PCAI. This model accurately recognizes and cat...
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Enterprise AI, Generative AI, Build vs Buy, and Data Best Practices from AI Infrastructure Field Day
Episode 24
Alastair Cooke, event lead at Tech Field Day, shared his key takeaways from AI Infrastructure Field Day 3 in September 2025, highlighting a shift from experimentation to production-ready AI applications. He emphasized the importance of automated platforms that simplify deployment, the trade-offs ...