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Vertiv joins the NVIDIA Partner Network
Vertiv is now a Solution Advisor : Consultant partner in the NVIDIA
Partner Network ( NPN ) – providing wider access to Vertiv ’ s experience and full portfolio of power and cooling solutions .
NPN is a global program for technology partners who offer solutions built on or powered by NVIDIA technologies .
Among leading software vendors , cloud service providers , solution providers and system integrators , Vertiv joins the network to offer its expertise in addressing the unique infrastructure challenges presented by accelerated computing .
and solutions that support the deployment of NVIDIA technologies globally ,” said Giordano ( Gio ) Albertazzi , CEO , Vertiv .
“ We have combined our leadership in power and cooling solutions with NVIDIA ’ s cutting-edge platforms to help meet the demands of the most compute-intensive applications and support the deployment of AI infrastructure across the globe .
Now , we are collaborating to build state-of-the-art liquid cooling solutions for next-gen NVIDIA accelerated data centers powered by GB200 NVL72 systems .”
“ Vertiv has collaborated with NVIDIA in research , development , and engineering for multiple years , designing innovative products
Vertiv ’ s high-density power and cooling solutions are designed to support the next generation of GPUs running the most computeintensive AI workloads safely , at optimal performance and with high availability .
Vertiv ’ s portfolio of liquid cooling technologies cover a wide range of application requirements .
The Vertiv Geist rack power distribution units ( PDUs ) family has been extended to accommodate higher power draw within the rack , minimizing footprint while maintaining high efficiency .
Tech veterans join Starburst to transform data warehouse industry
Open lakehouse company Starburst has announced the appointments of Steven Chung as President , Tobias Ternstrom as Chief Product Officer and Adam Ferrari as Senior Vice President of Engineering .
Justin Borgman , Cofounder and CEO , Starburst , said : “ Steven , Tobias and Adam have joined our team inspired by our vision to help organizations unlock greater business value from their data through the Starburst Lakehouse platform .”
Prior to Starburst , Chung served as President at Delphix having held executive roles at PagerDuty and Demandware . He has also held management roles at Symantec , Microstrategy , and PwC Consulting .
Ternstrom joins Starburst from Nutanix , where he was Vice President of Platform Services . His previous tenure includes AWS , GCP and Microsoft .
From left to right : Adam Ferrari , Senior Vice President of Engineering , Starburst , Steven Chung , President , Starburst and Tobias Ternstrom , Chief Product Officer , Starburst
Ternstrom led product management for Amazon Aurora and Amazon Relational Database Service ( RDS ); GCP ’ s Database Services , including Cloud Spanner , Bigtable , Datastore , Firestore , Memorystore and SQL ; and various offerings from Microsoft , including SQL Server on Linux and managed PostgreSQL , MySQL and MariaDB on Azure .
Adam Ferrari brings 20 years of engineering leadership where he most recently served as
SVP of Engineering for Salsify . He also led product and engineering teams at Oracle ’ s BI / EPM group and was CTO at Endeca prior to their acquisition by Oracle in 2011 .
Mike Volpi , Board Member and Founding Investor , Index Ventures said : “ Steven , Tobias , and Adam bring proven experience to Starburst as we power new opportunities with AI , ML and analytics in cloud , on-prem and hybrid environments .”
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