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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 (...)

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 (...)

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. (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

      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 (...)

April 7, 2021 - Austin, Texas - The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announces today that Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) is joining the OCP Community as a Platinum member. Target is the first major U.S. retailer to join the OCP. The announcement was made earlier today during ICCON, a new series (...)

         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 (...)

AUSTIN, Texas - March 9, 2021 – The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), a collaborative community focused on redesigning hardware technology to efficiently support the growing demands on compute infrastructure, announces today that Zaid Kahn of Microsoft will now hold a seat on its Board of (...)