With the volume of data increasing at a speed of 2.5 quintrillion bytes per day, the data centers entrusted with it’s processing, storage and optimization are under great pressure to redesign architecture, boost capacity and efficiency.

With network technology, processing, storage, AI and compute required to support ever-larger volumes of data,, we ask our panel how they are responding to the data challenge and the impact of data center infrastructure.

Do we know enough about smart NICs and their power to free up server processing for primary tasks? Can they have a future outside the hyperscale data center? And, what about the server - are DPUs a game-changer for workload offloading further up the stack? Is the industry ready to embrace innovation at hardware and software level in the era of accelerated computing?