Regardless of how analysts try to evaluate and measure the IT market in China they come up with the same result...the market is huge and growing rapidly. Specifically, data center construction is keeping pace with the growing demand for 5G services, explosive volume of online shopping and overall ne (...)
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Power uninterrupted: Choosing the right battery backup system for edge applications
One of the realities of being in business today is that demand for fast, reliable data isn’t letting up anytime soon. Whether the industry is manufacturing, telecom, retail, healthcare or finance, system engineers have found a solution by designing smaller, leaner, more powerful and localized (...)
Open Compute Project Foundation Announces the OCP Future Technologies Initiative
Formal Project will bring the academic, research and entrepreneurial communities to their open source Community workstreams. Today the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announces the formation of the OCP Future Technologies Initiative, a formal project within the Foundation whose mission is t (...)
SP Spotlight: The OCP market in France and how Celeris, an OCP Solution Provider in Paris, is positioned for growth
France has long advocated for the use of open source software across public and private sectors. This appetite for open source is also evident by the number of french developers contributing to open source relative to the rest of Europe. This spirit is (...)
Running on OCP: Episode 3 - Actapio & ITOCHU Techno-Solutions America
Part 2 Last week was Part 1 of my interview with Takashi Watanabe, Senior Software Engineer at Actapio, Inc., and Hisa Tanaka, Director, Sales & Solution Engineering at ITOCHU Techno-Solutions America, Inc. In part 1 we discussed why they started to deploy OCP and how they ove (...)
Which battery backup is best for 5G small cell node equipment?
Over the next five years, the 5G mobile network will gain widespread adoption by both individual consumers and commercial industries. For the network service providers, the transition to a 5G (or Fifth Generation) system is significantly more challenging than the transition from 3G to 4G was. Focusi (...)
Running on OCP: Episode 2 - Actapio & ITOCHU Techno-Solutions America
This week in our series, Running on OCP, focused on organizations using OCP in various aspects of their infrastructure we speak with one of the earliest adopters of OCP, Actapio, Inc., as well as one of the first OCP Solution Providers, ITOCHU Techno-Solutions America. Actap (...)
New OCP Sub-Project is here: Data Center Facility - Operation Technology Security
Hello OCP Community! We would like to announce the creation of the Data Center Facilities Operation Technology Security Sub-Project or DCF-OTS through the Open Compute Project (OCP). The Industrial Control Systems (ICS) that run our data centers are frequently designed with availability as th (...)
Running on OCP: Episode 1 - DriveNets
This is the first episode in a series of interviews entitled “Running on OCP”. The goal of this series is to share how organizations are using OCP in a variety of use cases. We will be interviewing end users deploying OCP, software companies who have built solutions on OCP as (...)
OCP Incubation Committee Strategic Plan for 2021
The OCP Incubation Committee (IC) roles and responsibilities have been evolving these past few years. A previous post covered details around the strategic plan executed for 2019-2020. The following builds on that discussion to highlight some of the ideas we plan to pursue in 2021. Top (...)