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2021 marks the 10th anniversary of OCP. It is also the 30th anniversary of Linux. Open compute, open source and open collaboration have become a force in the IT industry to drive efficiency and innovation.    The 3rd Annual OCP China Day, organized by the OCP Foundation and hosted by In (...)

As OCP was launching, working as an engineer at Intel, I met the Facebook mechanical engineers when they shared the details of a new rack design that solved many of the issues we had faced for years. It was evident that they were about to break the “glass ceiling” that the design communi (...)

Written by Loren Staley, CTO at Edgecore Networks, and Co-lead of Telco Project at OCP, which includes the Edge Sub-Project.   Technology fuels every aspect of our lives: professional and personal, from medical to educational to entertainment and beyond. Connecting it all is a remarkable (...)

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announces today several changes affecting both the Foundation Staff and its Board of Directors. The OCP Foundation and board of directors is excited to announce that Rebecca Weekly was elected to the position of chairperson of the Open Compute Project on Ju (...)

Technology fuels every aspect of our lives: professional and personal; from medical to educational to entertainment and beyond. Behind it all is a remarkable global matrix of IT infrastructure and equipment making it all possible, one that is also leaving a very large carbon footprint on Earth in th (...)

One of the areas that has grown the most consistently in OCP over the years is open networking. The rise of software defined networking (SDN) and disaggregation has been a catalyst specifically among telcos.  In this episode I speak with DCConnect, an OCP Community member headquartered in Hong (...)

OCP has continued to increase our collaboration with the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) as the adoption of open technologies increases across telcos and enterprises. OCP members have contributed specifications and designs  which provide the underlying hardware infrastructure for ONF’s u (...)

Ideally located between London and Cambridge, Kao Data is setting the pace for open infrastructure with one of the UK’s largest data center campus developments. As one of our first OCP Ready™ facilities, Kao Data has demonstrated their commitment to being part of a collaborative communit (...)

The Nomination Period for the 2021-2023 Incubation Committee (IC) has ended. Below are the nominees, listed by Project. If only one candidate is listed, that candidate will run unopposed. Reminder: only Silver, Gold & Platinum members are allowed to vote in Incubation Committee elections. The l (...)