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  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 (...)

Hello OCP Community! We would like to announce the creation of the Data Center Facilities Operation Technology Security Sub-Project or DCF-OTS through the Open Compute Project (OCP). The  Industrial Control Systems (ICS) that run our data centers are frequently designed with availability as th (...)

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 (...)

The OCP Incubation Committee (IC) roles and responsibilities have been evolving these past few years. A previous post covered details around the strategic plan executed for 2019-2020. The following builds on  that discussion to highlight some of the ideas we plan to pursue in 2021.   Top (...)

The Open Compute Project is excited to announce the resurrection of the Campus Branch Wireless project (CBW) Sub-Project. The OCP CBW Sub-Project was originally started in 2017 with an initial focus on Open Wi-Fi Access point designs and POE (IEEE802.3at) switches for “Enterprise” use. (...)

Not much attention is paid to power—until it goes out. In the residential sector, where millions of people are now working and learning from home, losing power is far more than the inconvenience it was prior to the events of 2020. With increased reliance on the internet and connected devices (...)

As open hardware continues to move from hyperscale to enterprise deployments, we are beginning to see new markets evaluate open designs.   One such industry that can benefit greatly from solutions driven by the Open Compute Project (OCP) is Healthcare. Patient and data-centric demands, recent (...)

The week of November 9 we completed OCP TECH WEEK, and we had a wide variety of announcements, sessions and thought-provoking discussions and collaboration. Check the OCP Blog for the latest Project and company announcements as well as deep-dives into some of the topics.   All the presentati (...)

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 (...)