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As a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Foundation continues to build Community momentum as hyperscalers, enterprises and facilities seek to meet the increased demand on networks.   2020 has certainly brought its fair share of challenges to the global community. And the only certainty con (...)

Hong Kong– October 26, 2020: Chayora Limited, an international infrastructure investor, developer and operator of hyperscale data centre campuses in China, today was confirmed by the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) to be the first data centre facility having achieved OCP Ready™ cer (...)

Security has been a growing concern for data centers for several years now. With the evolution of cloud, and with more and more customer data moving to the cloud, the data center has become a major target for hackers, and the level of sophistication demonstrated by the various malicious actors has g (...)

Luleå, Sweden is synonymous with amazing natural resources and the largest city in the Swedish Lapland.  It’s also home to a thriving tech community and several OCP members including Hydro66, Facebook, the Research Institute of Sweden (RISE) and the Boden Project. This week’s (...)

Creating interoperable products and driving de facto standard features across open source, vanity free hardware is imperative to achieving scale and efficiency. The initiative kicked off in 2020 identified several key attributes that OCP needed to take a step further in 2021 to assure interoperabili (...)

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announces today that Sims Lifecycle Services (SLS), a global leader in IT asset disposition, data center IT circularity and electronics recycling, is joining the OCP Community as a Platinum member. The OCP is a rapidly-growing, global Community focused on s (...)

Over the past year and half, OCP is going through some transitions, including the addition of Google as a Board member.   The following will provide you with a summary of the changes that the Incubation Committee has undergone in the past year as the Community prepares for the next 10 years. (...)

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announces today that Rebecca Weekly, Senior Principal Engineer & Senior Director of Hyperscale Strategy and Execution at Intel Corporation will serve on its Board of Directors. Rebecca replaces Jason Waxman, who has served since 2011 when Intel joined th (...)

The Dutch are well known for being early adopters of new technologies and this mentality extends to entrepreneurs in open source hardware.  This week I chat with Menno Kortekaas, CTO of Circle B, who started his company in 2015 focused purely on OCP solutions.  As our first European headqu (...)