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  1. OCP TECH WEEK: OCP “raising the bar” in 2021 on technology adoption and interoperability.

    Date:
    October 9, 2020
    Posted by:
    Bill Carter, Fellow Emeritus
    Creating interoperable products and driving de facto standard features across open source, vanity free hardware is imperative to achieving scale and efficiency. The initiative kicked off in 2020 identified several key attributes that OCP needed to…

  2. The Open Compute Project Foundation Welcomes Sims Lifecycle Services as a Platinum Member

    Date:
    October 6, 2020
    Posted by:
    Dirk Van Slyke, Chief Marketing Officer
    The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announces today that Sims Lifecycle Services (SLS), a global leader in IT asset disposition, data center IT circularity and electronics recycling, is joining the OCP Community as a Platinum member.…

  3. OCP Incubation Committee Changes: Roles and Responsibilities and Common Technology Initiatives

    Date:
    October 5, 2020
    Posted by:
    Bill Carter, Fellow Emeritus, Rajeev Sharma, and Dharmesh Jani
    Over the past year and half, OCP is going through some transitions, including the addition of Google as a Board member. The following will provide you with a summary of the changes that the Incubation Committee…

  4. Open Compute Project Foundation Announces New Board Member Rebecca Weekly of Intel.

    Date:
    September 29, 2020
    Posted by:
    Dirk Van Slyke, Chief Marketing Officer
    The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announces today that Rebecca Weekly, Senior Principal Engineer & Senior Director of Hyperscale Strategy and Execution at Intel Corporation will serve on its Board of Directors. Rebecca replaces Jason Waxman,…

  5. SP Spotlight: Starting and growing an OCP business in Europe, an interview with Netherlands based Circle B

    Date:
    September 28, 2020
    Posted by:
    Steve Helvie, Chief Emerging Ecosystem Officer
    The Dutch are well known for being early adopters of new technologies and this mentality extends to entrepreneurs in open source hardware.  This week I chat with Menno Kortekaas, CTO of Circle B, who started his…

  6. Agenda Announced for the Upcoming (Re)Designing Collaboration Virtual Event!

    Date:
    September 22, 2020
    Posted by:
    Dirk Van Slyke, Chief Marketing Officer
    As we continue to create opportunities for our community to engage and learn best practices from each other, at the upcoming (Re)Designing Collaboration virtual event we will be bringing in leaders from the industry, academia, as…

  7. SP Spotlight: Bringing hyperscale infrastructure designs to the enterprise in Southeast Asia

    Date:
    September 16, 2020
    Posted by:
    Steve Helvie, Chief Emerging Ecosystem Officer
    Southeast Asia continues to be a high growth market and to capitalize on this growth enterprises are going to need data centers optimized for the new wave of open infrastructure. This week I chat with Darren…

  8. SP Spotlight: An Interview with the founder of Giga Data Centers

    Date:
    September 3, 2020
    Posted by:
    Steve Helvie, Chief Emerging Ecosystem Officer
    This week’s SP spotlight shifts toward the data center facility in a conversation with Jake Ring, Co-Founder and CEO of Giga Data Centers.  Giga’s facility in North Carolina, USA is the first North American facility to…

  9. Upcoming virtual event: (Re)Designing Collaboration

    Date:
    August 25, 2020
    Posted by:
    Lesya Dymyd, Program Chair
    When the global Coronavirus pandemic hit, many organizations had to change their traditional way of doing business almost overnight. Leaders responded with measures and guidance that helped to protect companies and their people from the crisis…

  10. Open Compute Project Foundation Issues New Guidelines for Inclusiveness.

    Date:
    August 12, 2020
    Posted by:
    Bill Carter, Fellow Emeritus
    Terminology that could be considered offensive will be eliminated from all materials. Open sourcing has been gaining momentum and acceptance for decades among organizations of all sizes, from hyperscalers to start-ups, software and hardware, all reaping…

  11. SP Spotlight: Building an open infrastructure business in the UK. An interview with the founders of Manchester based Vesper Technologies

    Date:
    August 7, 2020
    Posted by:
    Steve Helvie, Chief Emerging Ecosystem Officer
    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…

  12. UfiSpace Receives OCP Accepted™ Designation for Industry’s First Distributed Disaggregated Chassis (DDC) Line Card Platforms

    Date:
    July 31, 2020
    Posted by:
    Dirk Van Slyke, Chief Marketing Officer
    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 include the S9700-53DX and…