The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), the open source hardware community, will be holding a meetup to discuss some key initiatives within the data centre industry. Join us as some of our top OCP members share their learnings and best practices on implementing OCP and how best to leverage open hardware within your infrastructure.

Agenda

13:00
Registration/check-in

14:00 - 15:00
OCP Update: Review of the current contributions and activities across all Projects - Bill Carter (CTO OCP Foundation) & Archna Haylock (Community Director OCP Foundation) will discuss current collaborative efforts underway within all OCP Projects. Additionally, they will discuss the Open Rack and Olympus Architectures, the OCP Marketplace and the changes to our portfolio of recognised contributions.

15:00 - 15:30
Deploying OCP in a Colocation Facility - Mark Dansie (Sr. Technical Project Manager with Inflectiontech & DC Project Member in OCP) & Stijn de Kruijf (MSc with Mission Critical Systems) will cover the recently published Colocation Guidelines. These guidelines were the result of diligent work done by the Data Centre project within OCP and outline what is needed within a facility to deploy and run OCP.

15:30 - 16:00
Learnings from OCP Colocation Deployments in Europe - Jean Marie Verdun (CEO of Horizon Computing Solutions & OCP Community Member) will share his experience deploying OCP in colo facilities across Europe including best practices and challenges when moving toward an OCP optimised colo facility.

16:00 - 16:30
Tips & Tricks - Menno Kortekaas (CEO of Circle B Technologies and OCP Community Member) will demonstrate technical tips and tricks when working with OCP servers. He will cover hardware management techniques and share his learnings from deploying OCP in Europe.

16:30 - 17:00
Open Networking Demo - Attilla de Groot (Systems Engineer with Cumulus Networks) will cover the hardware aspects, Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) and the advantages of software / hardware disaggregation of open networking.

17:00 - 19:00
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