Blog

As many of you already know the Open Compute Project is a community led non profit laser focused on increasing the pace of innovation and removing gratuitous differentiation from the data center. OCP customers and businesses worldwide continue to demand flexible and scalable hardware for the mission (...)

The Foundation is holding its first European Summit at École Polytechnique in Paris, France on 30-31 October 2014. Attendees to the OCP summits come from the technology, finance, government, and consulting sectors and represent a wide audience from engineers to senior executives. Do you want to help (...)

We are delighted to welcome Steve Helvie to the Open Compute Project Staff! Steve is passionate about being part of a great team and is excited to be joining the Open Compute Project Foundation. In his previous role Steve was the Director of International Sales for Rackspace Private Cloud (OpenStack (...)

The voting phase for the 2014-2015 Project Lead elections will start on 7 August and remain open until 21 August. Of the 8 OCP Projects only the HPC Project will require a vote. The two candidates for this seat are: Devashish Paul (IDT) Thomas Sohmers (Rex Computing) The winner of this vote will jo (...)

We're excited to welcome William Mapp to the Open Compute Project Foundation staff! William has been an enthusiastic force in the open source tech industry for many years now. Williamjoins us from Servergywhere he worked with both hardware andsoftware in the Power Linux space. While there he was re (...)

The Testimonial Phase of the OCP Project Lead elections is now open and the Foundation would like to thank all the nominees who have agreed to run for these seats. Leadership of an OCP project is, by far, one of the most important volunteer roles within the OCP ecosystem. The role of an OCP Project (...)

The OCP Foundation is pleased to announce the dates for our first international Summit on Thursday, October 30 and Friday, October 31, 2014 at the École Polytechnique in Paris France. Registration is now open! We have seen enormous growth throughout the project after our last summit in Jan ‘14 . In (...)

Starting today, Monday 7 July through Friday 18 July 2014, OCP project members can begin nominating candidates for the project lead positions. Current project leads are eligible to run for these positions as well. Seats Available: Compliance and Interoperability Data Center Hardware Management High- (...)

Join us;registration is now open for a 1-day OCP Engineering Workshop which will take place on 21 July at the University of New Hampshire. This is a free event and open to the public; however, registration is required. If you would like to attend you can register here. This Engineering Workshop will (...)