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The OCP Foundation is pleased to announce Billy Cox of Intel as one of our featured keynote speakers for the OCP European Summit 2014. Billy is leading a business group delivering innovative software products ranging from using the platform capabilities to implement a service level objective (SAA), (...)

The OCP Foundation is pleased to announce Kushagra Vaid of Microsoft as one of our featured keynote speakers for the OCP European Summit 2014. Kushagra was one of our featured speakers at the OCP Summit in San Jose earlier this year and we are pleased to welcome him back to our main stage. Kushagra (...)

The Foundation would like to announce that Devashish Paul of IDT and Thomas Sohmers of Rex Computing have agreed to co-lead the newly formed OCP HPC Project. The run-off poll that was issued on 26 August is now closed. We would like to thank all those who voted in the first election as well as those (...)

The vote for the OCP HPC project lead seat resulted in a tie between Devashish Paul of IDT and Thomas Sohmers of Rex Computing. The Foundation sent out 395 keys and of those 50 people voted. Both Devashish and Thomas received 25 votes each. Because this vote resulted in a tie, the Foundation will o (...)

As many of you already know the Open Compute Project is a community led non profit laser focused on increasing the pace of innovation and removing gratuitous differentiation from the data center. OCP customers and businesses worldwide continue to demand flexible and scalable hardware for the mission (...)

The Foundation is holding its first European Summit at École Polytechnique in Paris, France on 30-31 October 2014. Attendees to the OCP summits come from the technology, finance, government, and consulting sectors and represent a wide audience from engineers to senior executives. Do you want to help (...)

We are delighted to welcome Steve Helvie to the Open Compute Project Staff! Steve is passionate about being part of a great team and is excited to be joining the Open Compute Project Foundation. In his previous role Steve was the Director of International Sales for Rackspace Private Cloud (OpenStack (...)

The voting phase for the 2014-2015 Project Lead elections will start on 7 August and remain open until 21 August. Of the 8 OCP Projects only the HPC Project will require a vote. The two candidates for this seat are: Devashish Paul (IDT) Thomas Sohmers (Rex Computing) The winner of this vote will jo (...)

We're excited to welcome William Mapp to the Open Compute Project Foundation staff! William has been an enthusiastic force in the open source tech industry for many years now. Williamjoins us from Servergywhere he worked with both hardware andsoftware in the Power Linux space. While there he was re (...)