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The Open Compute Project Foundation is extending the Nomination Period for the 2017 Incubation Committee Elections.The Nomination Period will now extend until 11:59pm PST on July 19th, 2017.To nominate yourself or someone else clickhere.Updated Timeline Date Action 14 June Call for Nomination (...)

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) is pleased to announce the hire of Archna Haylock, as Community Director.Ms. Haylock brings more than 15 years of experience in global customer relations and business development for IBM, including creative solution design for "Internet of Things" applicatio (...)

The Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation is pleased to announce the call for nominations to serve on the OCP Incubation Committee (IC). There are nine seats available for the OCP Incubation Committee. These nine seats correspond with the nine OCP Projects: Compliance and Interoperability Data Ce (...)

World’s largest online and mobile commerce company supports open standards being adopted throughout the worldThe Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announced today that Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA), the world’s largest online and mobile commerce company, has joined as a Platinum member. OCP was init (...)

The OCP Incubation Committee elections are about to begin.The timeline for the elections is as follows: June 7th - June 14th: Informational Period June 14th - July 5th: Nomination & Testimonial Period July 5th - July 19th: Voting Period July 24th: New Incubation Committee Announced Augus (...)

Earlier this week we held our leadership sprint with the community’s project leaders and technical committee (IC). I presented on the value and benefits of the Carrier Grade OpenRack-19 architecture and the community was quick to point out that the architecture is also an ideal fit for cloud data ce (...)

Light Reading's Big Communications Event (BCE) will be held in Austin, Texas on May 15-17. BCE unites next-gen communications providers for real-world discussions of the issues critical to their future, including virtualization, cloud, next-gen wireless and back office transformation. BCE delivers a (...)

Amber has worked tirelessly with the Foundation volunteer leaders, members, project participants and the OCP team to deliver on its promise of creating a collaborative environment that fosters innovation in the datacenter industry.The community has flourished under Amber’s guidance through membershi (...)

As we wrap up the results from the recent 2017 Open Compute Annual Summit, we want to share an update on several important milestones that have been reached by the Foundation this year.OCP has established an open source HW ecosystem with more than 4,000 technical professionals actively engaged in OC (...)