I recently had the opportunity to speak with Allan Kaye and Philip Kaye from Vesper Technologies, a Solution Provider based in the UK, about trends in open infrastructure. Not only do Allan and Philip have deep experience in IT, but also a very compelling way of seeing the business value of open har (...)
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UfiSpace Receives OCP Accepted™ Designation for Industry’s First Distributed Disaggregated Chassis (DDC) Line Card Platforms
Today the Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation announced the acceptance of UfiSpace’s Distributed Disaggregated Chassis (DDC) line card platforms in compliance with the OCP AcceptedTM certification. The OCP Accepted DDC line card platforms inclu (...)
SP Spotlight: An interview with E.C.I. Networks
Amir Ammar, Sales and Business Strategy Lead for E.C.I. Networks, and OCP’s VP of Channel, Steve Helvie, discuss the open networking market in Canada. Profile Founded in Montreal, Canada, E.C.I. Networks delivers open networking for the data center, wired and wireless networks. Headquartered (...)
OCP new incubation Sub-Project: Advanced Cooling Facilities is launched!!
OCP is launching a new incubation Sub-Project under our Data Center Facilities Project! The Advanced Cooling Facilities (ACF) Sub-Project will be collaborating on the integration of Advanced Cooling Solutions (ACS) into Data Center Facilities (DCF) via liquid distr (...)
Artesyn Embedded Power Announces Open Rack Version 3 Power Shelf to Support Open Compute Project and Evolution to 48-Volt Infrastructure
Artesyn Embedded Power announces a new Open Compute Project Open Rack version 3 (OCP ORv3) power shelf, designed to support the move to 48-volt data center infrastructure. Traditionally, data center racks have used 12-volt power shelves, but higher performance compute and storage platforms demand m (...)
OCP announces a new incubation project: Time Appliances Project (TAP)
What is TAP? Time is a key element to get the highest efficiency in a distributed system. The performance of a distributed system depends on the synchronization of its elements. Several industries such as telecom, mobile, power, industrial, professional audio and video and many more have embraced t (...)
Penguin Computing Announces New Tundra AP Offering
New supercomputing platform brings the power of Intel Xeon Scalable 9200 Series processors to an OCP form factor, delivering higher node density, greater power capacity, improved serviceability, and room-neutral cooling. Penguin Computing Inc., a division of SMART Global Holdings, Inc. (N (...)
OCP Announces today that SpaceDC is the first OCP Ready™ facility in Asia-Pacific.
The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announced today that Singapore-based data center provider SpaceDC Pte Ltd has achieved OCP Ready™ certification for their new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This is the first data center in Asia to receive this OCP certification and demonstrates th (...)
Introducing Facebook OCP 200G FR4 Optical Transceiver Specification
As the need for bandwidth continues to increase, Facebook is deploying the next generation of optics which expands capacity and offers a seamless transition from 100G CWDM4 optics currently used in our large-scale data centers. The 200G FR4 OCP specification is based on IEEE 200GBASE-FR4 as defin (...)
Call for Nominations to serve as OCP Project Leads for 2020-2022
The Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation would like to announce that nominations are now open for its OCP Project Leads. Starting Friday June 12th through Friday, June 26th, OCP will begin accepting Nominations for all OCP Project Lead positions. If you or someone you know would l (...)