The Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation is pleased to announce the Call for Nominations to serve as an Incubation Committee (IC) Representative for the 2021-2023 term. There are currently 13 members on the IC - 10 elected IC Representatives (ICR) and 3 appointed chairs. The IC is a group of (...)
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Running on OCP: Episode 8 - Qarnot
Ecological and smart heat reuse is the theme for this week’s episode of Running on OCP. Qarnot, a French based enterprise, is fully committed to transitioning the environmental impact of IT through a distributed HPC heat reuse model. I had the opportunity to speak with Paul Benoit (...)
Running on OCP: Episode 7 - SDIA
The Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA) has big, bold goals when it comes to sustainability and defining a detailed digital technology roadmap. It’s these types of goals that align so well with the OCP tenets of Efficiency, Scalability, Openness and Impact. This week we speak w (...)
Running on OCP: Episode 6 - /e/ and Nexedi
In this week’s episode of Running on OCP, we discuss privacy vs security and the impact open source communities have on the transparency of information with two entrepreneurs and champions of open source. Gaël Duval, founder of /e/, an open-source mobile operating system and part of (...)
Running on OCP: Episode 5 - Blockheating & ITRenew
Finding ways to recycle data center heat has been getting a lot more attention lately. While many organizations view this as important, very few have executed as well as this week’s guests. Jeroen Burks, CEO of Blockheating, shares his thoughts on sustainability and how they are recycli (...)
OCP’s Ongoing Community Commitment to Sustainability Celebrated this Earth Day!
Earth Day is a great time to look back on where this community has come from and the advancements we are making as stewards of earth’s resources. The Open Compute Project was founded on the principles of energy conservation and reduction of raw materials (e.g. vanity f (...)
Unifying the interface for magnetic and solid-state storage
Did you know that the vast majority of data in the world, especially with hyper scalers, is still on hard drives? While solid-state media certainly dominates the news, you can’t discount the fact that magnetic storage in the form of hard disk drives (HDDs) is still the dominant storage media. (...)
SP Spotlight: My chat with Barry McGinley, Senior Technical Engineer at EPS Global
Flexibility, choice, lower capex, Linux...just a few of the benefits when moving to open networking. This week we speak with an OCP Solution Provider (SP) who specializes in open networking and who are committed to helping their customers through the open networking journey. Barry McGinley, Senior (...)
Questions about the upcoming OCP Global Summit?
While 2021 got off to a rocky start, after a difficult 2020, the cases of the Covid-19 virus are declining in most parts of the world, while vaccinations continue to increase. We are very excited that we will be returning to our in-person events with the 2021 OCP Global Summit, to be held at the San (...)
Running on OCP: Episode 4 - BizNet Gio
This week I had the opportunity to speak with Dondy Bappedyanto, CEO of Biznet Gio, a cloud hosting provider based in Jakarta, Indonesia. As a joint venture between Indonesian Telecommunications giant Biznet and IIJ (Internet Initiative Japan), they provide cloud services to (...)