The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has partnered with the Open Compute Project (OCP) to devise system and data center specifications to drive adoption of efficient data center and infrastructure design;spur rapid hardware innovation;and encourage greater openness and industry collaboration.

 

The ODCA recently published the first release of usage models for Open Specifications for Cloud Computing. The Open Compute Project also recently published the first series of specifications for efficient motherboard, server and data center design. 

 

The groups announced at today's Intel Developer Forum that the ODCA infrastructure working group will collaborate with selected engineering projects of the Open Compute Project. In turn, the ODCA opens up a broader customer base to help to evaluate, support and innovate Open Compute hardware and specifications.

"The Open Data Center Alliance was founded to accelerate delivery of the most pressing data center technology requirements for cloud computing in an open standards-based approach,"said Richard Dicketts, vice president and global head of infrastructure outsourcing operations at Capgemini and member of the ODCA Board of Directors. "The initial release of our first member-developed usage model requirements earlier this summer signaled that we were beginning to deliver on this vision. Today's announcement will result in two key benefits. First, we will see more efficient infrastructure as ODCA member requirements are incorporated into OCP projects and, second, this collaboration will enable broader evaluation of OCP products by the ODCA membership."

"The Open Compute Project was founded to bring together a community of engineers who are passionate about defining and delivering the most efficient server, storage and data center designs,"said Frank Frankovsky, a founding member of the Open Compute Project and director of technical operations at Facebook. "The collaboration between ODCA and OCP offers a unique opportunity to focus the best minds in the industry at this critical challenge."

Joint projects will initially focus on rack-scale infrastructure;ultra-efficient server and storage designs;and scalable, open systems management.