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AUSTIN, Texas - March 9, 2021 – The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), a collaborative community focused on redesigning hardware technology to efficiently support the growing demands on compute infrastructure, announces today that Zaid Kahn of Microsoft will now hold a seat on its Board of (...)

Africa’s IT market comprises some of the most interesting high growth areas in the world. Mobile money, exploding internet penetration and increased investment from both public and private sectors all point to an exciting future for Africa.  This week I spoke with the executive team from (...)

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 (...)

One of the realities of being in business today is that demand for fast, reliable data isn’t letting up anytime soon. Whether the industry is manufacturing, telecom, retail, healthcare or finance, system engineers have found a solution by designing smaller, leaner, more powerful and localized (...)

Formal Project will bring the academic, research and entrepreneurial communities to their open source Community workstreams. Today the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announces the formation of the OCP Future Technologies Initiative, a formal project within the Foundation whose mission is t (...)

       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 (...)

Over the next five years, the 5G mobile network will gain widespread adoption by both individual consumers and commercial industries. For the network service providers, the transition to a 5G (or Fifth Generation) system is significantly more challenging than the transition from 3G to 4G was. Focusi (...)

  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 (...)