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Data Bytes: Hyperscale Buying Boosts Market for ODM, Open Compute Gear

By Rich Miller - September 14, 2020

Overview of second-quarter 2020 trends in data center hardware and software sales., via Synergy Research. (Source: Synergy Research).

The pandemic has boosted sales of hyperscale hardware, especially custom servers and storage from ODM vendors and Open Compute specialist Inspur, according to new data from Synergy Research Group and IDC.

Tagged With: DataBytes, ODM, Open Compute, Open Compute Project

Submer, ZutaCore Debut Liquid Cooling Tech at Open Compute Summit

By Rich Miller - March 14, 2019

A Submer Immersion Cooling enclosure on display at the recent Gartner Infrastructure and Operations Conference in Las Vegas. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Liquid cooling technology specialists Submer Immersion Cooling and ZutaCore are rolling out new designs at the Open Compute Project Summit 2019, which begins today in San Jose. The OCP demos reflect growing interest in high-density cooling among hyperscale operators.

Tagged With: Immersion, Liquid Cooling, Open Compute

Open Compute Targets Liquid Cooling for Disruption

By Rich Miller - July 16, 2018

A Project Olympus server design with an optional remote heat sink, which can be used to incorporate water-cooling, on display at the Microsoft booth at the the Open Compute Summit 2018, brings water to the chip to handle high-density cooling. (Photo: Rich Miller)

The Open Compute Project (OCP) is working to enable wider adoption of liquid cooling, citing demand from hyperscale computing providers, as well as new applications in edge computing.

Tagged With: Liquid Cooling, Open Compute

With 5G on the Horizon, Telcos Embrace Open Compute

By Rich Miller - March 21, 2018

Open Compute Project Chairman and President Mark Roenigk speaks at the 2018 OCP Summit Tuesday in San Jose, Calif. (Photo: Rich Miller)

As the Open Compute Project matures, leading players say the next wave of growth for OCP hardware may come from telecom companies.

Tagged With: Facebook, Open Compute

2018 Open Compute Project US Summit

By Colleen Miller - March 20, 2018 Leave a Comment

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The 2018 Open Compute Project (OCP) US Summit will be held March 20 – 21 at the San Jose Convention Center.

Tagged With: AI, ocp, Open Compute, open hardware, open source, San Jose

Open19 Launches With Vision for Open Hardware at the Edge

By Rich Miller - May 23, 2017

Open19 founder Yuval Bachar of LinkedIn (right) describes the project at last week's Infrastructure Masons Summit in Palo Alto, Calif. (Photo: Infrastructure Masons)

The Open19 Foundation launched today, positioning its open hardware designs as a foundational layer of edge computing, and an alternative to the Open Compute project and hyperscale designs.

Tagged With: Edge Computing, LinkedIn, Open Compute, Open19

Futurist: New Tech Will Drive Enormous Demand for Data Centers

By Rich Miller - March 23, 2017

A blue-lit row of servers in a Google data center, (Photo: Google)

The data center’s role in the economy will be transformed by technologies like AI, virtual reality, voice assistants, autonomous vehicles and robots, according to futurist Steve Brown.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Open Compute

The Switch of the Future? Silicon Photonics in Action

By Rich Miller - March 21, 2017

At Open Compute, Intel and Barefoot Networks demonstrated a programmable 6.5 TB/s Wedge 100 switch using 65 silicon photonics transceivers. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Intel and Barefoot Networks show off an Open Compute switch with 65 silicon photonics optical modules, creating a programmable switch with a top end of 6.5 terabits a second.

Tagged With: Barefoot Networks, Intel, Open Compute, Silicon Photonics

Microsoft, NVIDIA Roll Out Cloud AI Hardware

By Rich Miller - March 20, 2017

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At the Open Compute Summit, Microsoft and NVIDIA unveiled a new hyperscale GPU accelerator for artificial intelligence workloads in the cloud. The HGX-1 harnesses eight NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs and high-speed interconnects.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Open Compute

Microsoft Boosts Hopes That ARM Servers Can Power The Cloud

By Rich Miller - March 13, 2017

Leendert Van Doorn, a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, holds up an ARM motherboard during his keynote at the Open Compute Summit. (Photo: Rich Miller)

At last week’s Open Compute Summit, Microsoft confirmed that it is test-driving ARM cloud servers from Qualcomm and Cavium in its data centers.

Tagged With: ARM, Cavium, Microsoft, Open Compute, Qualcomm

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Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center

Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center The data center industry continues to experience significant global supply chain problems. Brett Williams of Service Express, explores the importance of leveraging the secondary hardware market to overcome supply chain roadblocks.

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Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

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