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 (...)
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SP Spotlight: An Interview with Lee Myall, CEO of Kao Data
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Pluribus Networks joins the OCP Solution Provider program with the release of their new line of OCP Accepted™ Freedom Series switches.
The growth of open networking continues among CSP’s and is rapidly moving into the enterprise space. Enterprises are looking for the flexibility and capex benefits that come with disaggregation of the hardware and software. Hardware is just one component of (...)
SP Spotlight: Africa’s future is open! My chat with the executive team from Atlancis, our Solution Provider based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Africa’s IT market comprises some of the most interesting high growth areas in the world. Mobile money, exploding internet penetration and increased investment from both public and private sectors all point to an exciting future for Africa. This week I spoke with the executive team from (...)