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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 (...)

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) is pleased to announce that we will reach our 10-year anniversary milestone on October 3, 2021! I have had the good fortune of being involved with OCP starting with the second board meeting back in 2012. I served as CFO for the first few years, and then as C (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)