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The Open Compute Project is excited to announce the resurrection of the Campus Branch Wireless project (CBW) Sub-Project. The OCP CBW Sub-Project was originally started in 2017 with an initial focus on Open Wi-Fi Access point designs and POE (IEEE802.3at) switches for “Enterprise” use. (...)

Not much attention is paid to power—until it goes out. In the residential sector, where millions of people are now working and learning from home, losing power is far more than the inconvenience it was prior to the events of 2020. With increased reliance on the internet and connected devices (...)

As open hardware continues to move from hyperscale to enterprise deployments, we are beginning to see new markets evaluate open designs.   One such industry that can benefit greatly from solutions driven by the Open Compute Project (OCP) is Healthcare. Patient and data-centric demands, recent (...)

The week of November 9 we completed OCP TECH WEEK, and we had a wide variety of announcements, sessions and thought-provoking discussions and collaboration. Check the OCP Blog for the latest Project and company announcements as well as deep-dives into some of the topics.   All the presentati (...)

Most companies would like to consider themselves at the early stages of a technology curve or industry movement.  In the case of OCP Solution Providers there is one company who can truly say they were there at the beginning.  Hyve Solutions was one of the original SP’s getting their (...)

The impact of software and specifically, open source software remains a key driver in the decision-making process within Enterprises.   As we look at the OCP market, those companies who are adopting OCP hardware are more likely to be early adopters in the use of software containers, devel (...)

The Open Compute Project (OCP) China Day 2020 was recently held in Beijing as part of OCP Tech Week, attracting nearly 600 IT engineers and data center professionals. It was organized by the OCP Foundation PRC Community Leadership Team and hosted by Inspur. At the event, a number of leading OCP memb (...)

CADCloud is a new software contribution hosted by the Open Compute Project, and is released under the MIT license. CADCloud aims to allow the OCP Community, and mechanical engineers around the globe, to collaborate online during these challenging & unprecedented times.   CADCloud is an on (...)

As many of you learned about the OCP Device Manager functionality during OCP TECH WEEK, the following will provide a summary of the technical aspects of Device Management, from a high level perspective. As we know, Device Manager will collect device data and notifications from each device, and make (...)