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October 1st and 2nd . Events like these offer a chance for OCP to grow and share ideas around transformation . “ Our data centre facilities group aims to drive new standards for colo providers to enhance energy efficiency and draws on the expertise of our European members ,” confirms Carter .
What are the OCP ’ s goals for 2018 and beyond ? “ We would like to encourage data centres to adopt preparation recommendations to allow them to use this more efficient equipment ,” Carter asserts . “ We ’ re also working on hardware management – we have a profile based on the Redfish specification and want to roll that out across our products so that , regardless of where it comes from , if a product meets the OCP spec it can be managed correctly , which will allow the software community to have a universal hardware target they can better design orchestration software for .”
Concluding with an eye on sustainability , Carter believes embedded software is key to producing a complete open source solution . “ When equipment is recycled you have to have the ability to maintain it down the road . Often , the BIOS becomes obsolete so if there ’ s a way for that to be open sourced the community can maintain it and extend the useful life of hardware . What ’ s useful for a hyperscaler today may be useful to a local cloud provider in the future if we can provide the necessary tools .”
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