Dell emc smartfabric os10 is a transformational software platform that provides networking hardware abstraction through a common set of apis so you can. The top 3 free and open source it asset management software. The open compute project foundation is a 501c6 nonprofit incorporated in the state of delaware. Reduce downtime, ensure software license compliance, and speed up troubleshooting by tracking all hardware including windowsmac devices as well as software. Data center facility hardware management hpc networking rack. Open compute project ocp is a global community of technology leaders working together to unlock proprietary it infrastructure to make hardware more efficient, flexible, and scalable, enabling greater choice, customization, and cost savings for customers. Beginning with an initiative to share the most efficient designs for scalable computing, the project is now defined by ocp as a collaborative community focused on redesigning hardware technology to efficiently support the growing demands on compute infrastructure. All presentation materials, proposals, meeting minutes andor supporting documents are published by ocp. Open compute project influence, open source hardware gain.
Specifications and designs are contributed to the ocp foundation through the ocp projects. This year, were taking further steps to address these needs. One can also think about ocp as a project that helps companies to put together data centers in a. The open compute project aims to bring the benefits of the open source software model to hardware infrastructure. This starts with open standards for firmware, telemetry, virtualization, orchestration, and application. The specifications allow a data center system manager uniform remote access to the hardware in the rack. The switch software disaggregation derby has begun juniper networks this week rolled out a switch based on hardware from the open compute project designed to run its junos network operating. The products that met the above criteria were then evaluated against our it asset management software definition.
Pod manager pooled system management engine psme rack management module rmm. Enable consistency across compute and network resources for your. Openstack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface. Welcome to the ocp hardware fault management subproject. Microsoft joins open compute project, shares its server. Manage the complete it asset lifecycle for your remote workforce with easytouse, cloudbased it asset management software. The open compute project ocp is reimagining hardware, making it more efficient, flexible, and scalable. During open compute summit, megarac composer pod management software from ami will be featured as part of a of a multivendor interoperability demonstration staged and hosted by intel corporation a platinum sponsor of this years ocp using ami rack scale design technologies for pooled nvme and nic management. The effort came out of a redesign of facebooks data center in prineville, oregon the open compute project foundation is a 501c6 nonprofit incorporated in the state of delaware. Project olympus comprises these hardware and software modules to realize a holistic rack architecture. Hardware management for cgopenrack19 suzanne kelliher, product line manager, radisys.
This project is open to the public and we welcome all those who would like to be involved. As a member of the joyents compute platform team, you will participate in samsungs cloud initiative to build from scratch a platform and core backend micro services to support its business activities. For facebook, for example, this has meant open sourcing how it builds some of its servers and other data center hardware. While other vendors are excited that their hardware is in ocp, intel is pushing rsd as a higherlevel message and talking about power provisioning and management at sc. The open compute project is an initiative started by facebook to share more efficient server and data center designs with the general information technology it industry. Microsoft offers open source designs to open compute project. It has spurred the growth of a vibrant development community, which is now expanding its focus to cover network equipment. Intel advances hardware, cloud and connectivity at open.
Microsoft continues to make its push into the hardware world with the announcement of project olympus, an open source hardware design was created for the open compute project ocp that can be. Today im speaking at the open compute project ocp u. This is a significant moment as we usher in a new era of open source hardware development at cloud speed. By deploying open compute project open racks densely populated with open source it gear, it will deliver high levels of energy efficiency, hardware efficiency, scalability and flexibility. A deeper perspective on software manageability for the open compute project community mohan j. The switchsoftware disaggregation derby has begun juniper networks this week rolled out a switch based on hardware from the open compute project designed to. When facebook talks about the incredible amounts of money it has saved by using open compute, keep in mind that even though the vanityfree hardware is designed to be costeffective, its the. Summit 2018 in san jose where we are announcing a next generation specification for solid state device ssd storage, project denali. The top 3 free and open source it asset management. And, that is how the open compute project ocp came into fruition. There are two software companies that have joined, and given how integral systems software bios, other firmware, management systems, middleware, and so on is to any hardware platform, we expect for the number to grow, and we might even go so far as to say that the open compute project should probably give some consideration to the idea. The open hardware movement started with huge operators of data centers like facebook that have the scale and expertise to buy hardware directly from manufacturers and put their own software on it.
Vmware originally worked with ocp back in may 2012 to certify vmware vsphere to run on open amd and intelbased hardware. Openbmc allows users to control security issues for out of band management faster time to patch, custom implementations of open source software, secure boot commonality. Aug 25, 2014 the open compute project, launched by facebook in 2011, applies open source software principles to the hardware industry to drive the development of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. Vmware is now an open compute project gold level member. Project olympus base specification defines a modular architecture with clear internal and external interfaces.
While other vendors are excited that their hardware is in ocp, intel is pushing rsd as a higherlevel message and talking about power provisioning and management at scale. Apr 28, 2015 when facebook talks about the incredible amounts of money it has saved by using open compute, keep in mind that even though the vanityfree hardware is designed to be costeffective, its the. Mar 20, 2018 norcross, georgia san jose, california, usa ami, a global leader in bios and uefi firmware, server and remote management tools, data storage products and unique solutions based on the linux and android operating systems, is pleased to announce that its megarac composer pod management firmware solution will be featured at the open compute project summit 2018 in san jose, ca from. Other barriers to sales included a lack of thirdparty software to manage and automate operational tasks on ocp switches. Microsoft reimagines open source cloud hardware azure blog. You will develop a groundbreaking cloud service around kubernetes that will run a wide range of workloads, from bi. On the state of current open compute project technology, software lagged in maturity behind hardware, ihs said. Facebook open compute project shapes big data hardware. The open compute project is an initiative started by facebook to share more efficient server and data center designs with the general information technology. Hardware bmc systems generally share commonality a path to a low cost open hardware platform is possible adoption.
Mar 14, 2019 open hardware management with intel rack scale design rack management module. Scale computing requires a small and stable set of tools to remotely manage machines. Join our global community of technology leaders working together to break open the black box of proprietary it infrastructure to achieve. Components that used to have to be on the motherboard close to the processing power can now be disaggregated meaning separated from the board. Blog whitebox open platforms provide the next generation. The data center core is a triumvirate, however, and in addition to compute and networking, every data center needs storage. In collaboration with the open compute project ocp, we are introducing project olympus our next generation hyperscale cloud hardware design and a new model for open source hardware development with the ocp community. The open compute project, created to generate costeffective generic hardware for large users, clearly now extends to cover all aspects of the modern softwaredefined data center, to judge by the opening announements at the. Openstack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a. The open compute project ocp foundation is pleased to announce the call for nominations to serve as an incubation committee representative for the 20192021 term. Microsoft reimagines open source cloud hardware azure. Megarac composer pod management software from ami featured. The hardware management project will focus on the following. This is a subproject of the ocp hardware management project this project is open to the public and we welcome all those who would like to be involved.
Oct 31, 2016 in collaboration with the open compute project ocp, we are introducing project olympus our next generation hyperscale cloud hardware design and a new model for open source hardware development with the ocp community. The open compute project, launched by facebook in 2011, applies opensource software principles to the hardware industry to drive the development of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. Software defined containerbased storage solution has arrived on ocp storage hardware platforms. Compute management network configuration storage services chassis management. Ultimately, its about providing a cost effective and viable alternative to the traditional data centre infrastructure, using open source technology. Mar 16, 2015 fidelity will start to convert its data centers to open stack private clouds through 2015, with open compute specifications providing the cloud hardware.
Customers need software and fullyintegrated solutions to ease cloud infrastructure management. Mar 18, 2020 open compute is the ambitious project brining the open way of innovation to datacentre hardware. Open compute project hyperscale computing open for business and gaining momentum author jason waxman published on march 20, 2018 march 20, 2018 it was an honor to address the community at the open compute project ocp summit 2018. Intel rack scale design we have covered before but the company is at ocp summit 2017 and pushing the standard heavily. Join our global community of technology leaders working together to break open the black box of proprietary it infrastructure to achieve greater choice, customization, and cost savings. A product was classified as it asset management software if it contained these core featuresasset tracking, inventory management, and reporting. Jan 27, 2014 the open compute project ocp was founded by facebook in 2011 to take the concepts behind open source software and create an open hardware movement to build commodity systems for hyperscale data centers. With a common underlying hardware and open stack supervising software, fidelity will end up with a more flexible and easily expandable set of resources.
Please do not submit any confidential information to the project community. Intel advances hardware, cloud and connectivity at open compute project global summit jason waxman, intel corporate vice president in the data center group and general manager of the datacenter solutions group, speaks thursday, march 14, 2019, during a keynote address at the open compute project global summit in san jose, calif. View the ocp hardware management open source project from open compute project ocp. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the fair chance ordinance. Mar 20, 2018 open compute project hyperscale computing open for business and gaining momentum author jason waxman published on march 20, 2018 march 20, 2018 it was an honor to address the community at the open compute project ocp summit 2018. The initiative was announced in april 2011 by jonathan heiliger at facebook to openly share designs of data center products.
Juniper unbundles switch hardware, software network world. The open compute project ocp was founded by facebook in 2011 to take the concepts behind open source software and create an open hardware movement to build commodity systems for hyperscale data centers. Microsoft creates industry standards for datacenter. The hardware management specification incorporates a set of existing tools and best practices and leverages existing tools for remote machine management. To this end, the ocp announced the open vault standard, a 2u open rack chassis originally designed to support 30 hotswappable serialattached scsi drives. Mar 22, 2018 what open compute project hardware lacks. Facebook open compute project shapes big data hardware silicon photonics sounds like it has huge advantages over copperwirebased interconnects. Open compute is the ambitious project brining the open way of innovation to datacentre hardware.
During the same period, the products rating also had to be. A configurable network fabric of hardware, interconnect with cables and backplane, and management software intel rsd based on open industry standard redfish intel has open sourced reference implementation of following components on. The projects cover diverse areas including 5g, iot, sdn, nfv, sdwan, cloud, and more. Other prominent partners with the open compute project have often come from the hardware side of tech, including intel, amd. This includes pdus, servers, switches and storage devices. Find other material on project olympus subgroup at wiki page. It asset management software helps businesses to track and manage the technical, financial, and physical aspects of it assetsboth hardware components as well as software licenses and contracts. Fidelity will start to convert its data centers to open stack private clouds through 2015, with open compute specifications providing the cloud hardware. Open compute summit extends from hardware to software dcd.
Hardware managementhardware fault management opencompute. The new equus whitebox open platforms provide the next generation of white box open hardware. Software defined infrastructure sdi provides the capability to control and configure compute, storage, and networking hardware from a central management platform into virtual performanceoptimized datacenters vpods. It has long had the support of data center giants, and products developed under its auspices are starting to touch every part of the data center. Baseline manageability capabilities across the following open compute projects.
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