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OCP has continued to increase our collaboration with the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) as the adoption of open technologies increases across telcos and enterprises. OCP members have contributed specifications and designs  which provide the underlying hardware infrastructure for ONF’s u (...)

Ideally located between London and Cambridge, Kao Data is setting the pace for open infrastructure with one of the UK’s largest data center campus developments. As one of our first OCP Ready™ facilities, Kao Data has demonstrated their commitment to being part of a collaborative communit (...)

Ecological and smart heat reuse is the theme for this week’s episode of Running on OCP.  Qarnot, a French based enterprise, is fully committed to transitioning the environmental impact of IT through a distributed HPC heat reuse model.  I had the opportunity to speak with Paul Benoit (...)

The Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA) has big, bold goals when it comes to sustainability and defining a detailed digital technology roadmap. It’s these types of goals that align so well with the OCP tenets of Efficiency, Scalability, Openness and Impact. This week we speak w (...)

In this week’s episode of Running on OCP, we discuss privacy vs security and the impact open source communities have on the transparency of information with two entrepreneurs and champions of open source. Gaël Duval, founder of /e/, an open-source mobile operating system and part of (...)

Finding ways to recycle data center heat has been getting a lot more attention lately. While many organizations view this as important, very few have executed as well as this week’s guests.  Jeroen Burks, CEO of Blockheating, shares his thoughts on sustainability and how they are recycli (...)

Flexibility, choice, lower capex, Linux...just a few of the benefits when moving to open networking. This week we speak with an OCP Solution Provider (SP) who specializes in open networking and who are committed to helping their customers through the open networking journey. Barry McGinley, Senior (...)

      This week I had the opportunity to speak with Dondy Bappedyanto, CEO of Biznet Gio, a cloud hosting provider based in Jakarta, Indonesia. As a joint venture between Indonesian Telecommunications giant Biznet and IIJ (Internet Initiative Japan), they provide cloud services to (...)

         The growth of open networking continues among CSP’s and is rapidly moving into the enterprise space. Enterprises are looking for the flexibility and capex benefits that come with disaggregation of the hardware and software. Hardware is just one component of (...)