Data Centre Magazine March 2026, Issue 41 | Page 57

FIDJI SIMO
CLOUD & COLOCATION

FIDJI SIMO

TITLE: CEO OF APPLICATIONS COMPANY: OPENAI INDUSTRY: TECHNOLOGY
Fidji joined OpenAI in 2025 and oversees the company’ s applications, such as ChatGPT, and its operations, including the product development, sales, engineering, finance, legal, marketing and people teams.

“ Snowflake is a trusted platform that sits at the centre of how enterprises manage and activate their most critical data”

Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications, OpenAI making it easier to deploy AI agents and apps, so businesses can close the gap between what AI is capable of and the value they can create today.”
According to analysts tracking enterprise adoption, the emphasis on trust and recoverability within this partnership is as strategically pivotal as its AI functionality. Together, Snowflake and OpenAI are teaching the market that AI itself can support continuity – by predicting failures, streamlining crisis response and speeding up forensic recovery after an incident.
Redefining recovery in the age of AI Traditional disaster recovery has focused on data replication, failover and secure
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