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Regardless of how analysts try to evaluate and measure the IT market in China they come up with the same result...the market is huge and growing rapidly. Specifically, data center construction is keeping pace with the growing demand for 5G services, explosive volume of online shopping and overall ne (...)

       France has long advocated for the use of open source software across public and private sectors.  This appetite for open source is also evident by the number of french developers contributing to open source relative to the rest of Europe.   This spirit is (...)

  Part 2 Last week was Part 1 of my interview with Takashi Watanabe, Senior Software Engineer at Actapio, Inc., and Hisa Tanaka, Director, Sales & Solution Engineering at ITOCHU Techno-Solutions America, Inc. In part 1 we discussed why they started to deploy OCP and how they ove (...)

  This week in our series, Running on OCP, focused on organizations using OCP in various aspects of their infrastructure we speak with one of the earliest adopters of OCP, Actapio, Inc., as well as one of the first OCP Solution Providers, ITOCHU Techno-Solutions America.  Actap (...)

This is the first episode in a series of interviews entitled “Running on OCP”.  The goal of this series is to share how organizations are using OCP in a variety of use cases.  We will be interviewing end users deploying OCP, software companies who have built solutions on OCP as (...)

Most companies would like to consider themselves at the early stages of a technology curve or industry movement.  In the case of OCP Solution Providers there is one company who can truly say they were there at the beginning.  Hyve Solutions was one of the original SP’s getting their (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

Southeast Asia continues to be a high growth market and to capitalize on this growth enterprises are going to need data centers optimized for the new wave of open infrastructure. This week I chat with Darren Hawkins, Founder and CEO of SpaceDC, as he shares his view on the data center market in Sout (...)