Ep. 162 Yong Tan, Global Director of Sales (US and Global Accounts) - AI Systems for Data Centers of Supermicro | Data Center Go-to-Market Podcast

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Subscribe to the Data Center Sales and Marketing Newsletter (DCSMI) In episode 162 of the Data Center Go-to-Market Podcast, you’ll Joshua Feinberg talks with Yong Tan, Global Director of Sales for AI systems for data centers at Supermicro, about how the AI data center “gold rush” is reshaping careers, infrastructure design, and customer expectations You’ll hear Yong’s journey from engineering and IT roles at EMC and Microsoft into leading AI data center sales, why the window to participate in the AI infrastructure boom may only be 12–18 months, how power density, liquid cooling, and GPU-driven architectures are changing data center strategy, and what early-career and mid-career professionals should be doing right now to stay relevant Yong also shares his favorite AI productivity tools, thoughts on modular data centers, ecosystem trends around Nvidia, and how advances like self-driving vehicles connect back to AI-ready data centers Ep.