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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 (...)

    As we continue to create opportunities for our community to engage and learn best practices from each other, at the upcoming (Re)Designing Collaboration virtual event we will be bringing in leaders from the industry, academia, as well as the venture and startup communities to share (...)

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 (...)

This week’s SP spotlight shifts toward the data center facility in a conversation with Jake Ring, Co-Founder and CEO of Giga Data Centers.  Giga’s facility in North Carolina, USA is the first North American facility to receive OCP Ready™ recognition.  Jake shares his view (...)

When the global Coronavirus pandemic hit, many organizations had to change their traditional way of doing business almost overnight. Leaders responded with measures and guidance that helped to protect companies and their people from the crisis as best they could. The technology industry, including t (...)