Why AI Pilots Fail to Reach Production | Denise Muyco, RAVEL | TFiR
Enterprises commit millions to AI infrastructure based on lab pilots that never reflect production conditions. Denise Muyco ...
How to Cut Data Copies for GPU Efficiency | Brandon Whitelaw, Qumulo | TFiR
Enterprise flash storage prices rose over 400% as hyperscalers absorb 90% of silicon supply. Brandon Whitelaw of ...
How AI Inference Hardware Differs From Training Hardware | Rob Hirschfeld, RackN | TFiR
Rob Hirschfeld of RackN explains why context window management, not GPU compute, is the primary bottleneck in ...
GPU and RAM Scarcity Is Breaking Single-Vendor AI Infrastructure Plans | Rob Hirschfeld, RackN | TFiR
GPU and RAM scarcity is collapsing single-vendor procurement strategies. RackN CEO Rob Hirschfeld explains how enterprises are ...
How to Route AI Inference Across Latency, Cost, and Model Fit Simultaneously | Ari Weil, Akamai | TFiR
Ari Weil of Akamai explains how the AI grid orchestrator routes inference workloads across five axes including ...
How Kubernetes 1.36 Handles GPU Scheduling, DRA, and Kubelet Security | Ryota Sawada, Kubernetes | TFiR
Kubernetes 1.36 ships native Workload Aware Scheduling for GPU and LLM workloads, fine-grained Kubelet API authorization at ...
GPU Scarcity Is Driving AI Infrastructure Overprovisioning | TFiR
GPU scarcity is driving AI infrastructure overprovisioning. Dirk Alshuth of emma explains how professional services match ...
The AI Market Looks Nothing Like the Narrative: Runpod CTO Brennen Smith on What’s Actually Running in Production | TFiR
Runpod CTO Brennen Smith breaks down the company's 2026 State of AI Report — covering open-source model ...
The AI Network Wall: Why You’re Wasting Billions on Idle GPUs | Drew Perkins & Omar Hassen, Eridu | TFiR
AI data centers are burning through billions in GPU investments, but legacy networking is throttling performance. Eridu ...
AI Infrastructure Lock-In: Why PyTorch is the Only Abstraction Layer That Matters | Mark Collier | TFiR
Enterprise AI infrastructure faces a fragmentation crisis as hardware and software evolve simultaneously at unprecedented speed. Mark ...
