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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 take a step further in 2021 to assure interoperabili (...)

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 the benefits of accelerated innovation when w (...)

This year, the theme for the OCP Global Summit is - Open for all. The world’s most innovative organizations - from traditional hyperscalers to colo-facilities to enterprise to government - are realizing the benefits of tested and validated technologies, and they insist on them more and more in (...)

Open Compute Project: 2020 Area of Focus Roadmap   The Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation staff is often asked about our roadmap. This blog addresses that question and  provides better insight into the areas of focus. As most know, OCP is an open source community and all technical con (...)

The OCP Regional summit will offer 7 technical tracks and more than 80 presentations this year. The full agenda is now available here and below I share some insights into the workshops!    At the Global summit in March, the Foundation announced two new sub-projects:  Open Domai (...)

The openRACK architecture disaggregated the rackmount server by centralizing AC to DC power conversion.  Rather than install 2 power supplies in each server to support resiliency, OpenRACK implemented a centralized power shelf that provided 12VDC power to all the IT equipment via bus bars in th (...)

Last week I had the opportunity to present at the DMTF’s 2018 Alliance Partner Technical Symposium where I shared our Hardware Management Project’s strategy to align with the DMTF Redfish specification. In April, the project released the OCP BASELINE PROFILE which prescrib (...)

The Open Compute Project leadership is responding to an industry need to collaborate on liquid cooling and other advanced cooling approaches. OCP has formed the ADVANCED COOLING SOLUTIONS sub-project to 1)harmonize the supply chain thus enabling deliver of building blocks for wider, quicker, and eas (...)

One year ago, Microsoft announced Project Olympus, Microsoft’s next generation cloud hardware design which will power the Azure hyper-scale cloud, one of the world’s largest cloud infrastructure running in over 100 datacenters worldwide. Since joining OCP in 2014, Microsoft has shared the same serve (...)