MISSION CRITICAL
Open Rack standard with products built off of 19 ” EIA3 compatible tech and contributions from Microsoft with the Olympus rack design ,” highlights Carter . “ Both of these have multi-sourced supply chains behind them . We ’ re giving the industry efficient choices and are proud to have changed the landscape for networks . For the past eight years working with Facebook and the ODM community we have disaggregated the network switch . Nowadays you can buy any flavour you need – there are multiple options for network OS and all open sourced . That ’ s a game changer we ’ ve been part of in developing pathways for these companies to collaborate – we ’ re not a provider but a true enabler .”
Its success was recently measured when OCP engaged IHS Markit , a world leader in critical information , analytics and solutions , to help validate the adoption of OCP gear across the data centre industry . Since inception , OCP has worked to drive innovation in the data centre industry , bringing together nearly 200 member organisations and more than 4,000 engineers . The demands on the modern data centre continue to expand with the growth of IoT , security and edge computing , as well as increasing energy consumption requirements . This has seen revenue generated from OCP approved equipment in 2017 reached $ 1.2bn from nonboard member companies . OCP board member companies ( such as Facebook and Microsoft ) have widely adopted OCP principles with great success , however until now it wasn ’ t clear how far beyond these market leaders that OCP had reached . Carter is impressed that the results of the IHS Markit study forecast OCP adoption among non-board member companies set to surpass $ 6bn by 2021 . Primary drivers for this are power efficiency , cost reductions , standardisation and quick deployment capability across more than 100 OCP developed products .
Until now most of the revenue derived from OCP gear has come from North America , but going forward Carter sees most of its growth opportunity in Asia and Europe as awareness of its work is raised through events like this year ’ s OCP European summit in Amsterdam , due to take place
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