With a recently opened research lab, the Open Compute Project’s continued support from tech’s biggest players indicates an eager ecosystem looking to standardize converged infrastructure in enterprise IT.

The brainchild of Facebook, OCP is being nurtured by industry influencers including Google, Intel, Microsoft, Rackspace and Apple. How will these market leaders continue cooperative efforts for OCP, and what commercial opportunities could emerge from its ecosystem?

At the Open Compute Project U.S. Summit, kicking off today in Santa Clara, California, SiliconANGLE will be on the ground with the roving news desk theCUBE, speaking with industry experts on OCP developments, challenges and opportunities. 

Five months after joining the OCP in March last year, Google Inc. announced its first hardware contribution to the project with the news that it was developing a new data center rack design modeled after its own internal equipment.

In September last year, Facebook announced the opening of a new OCP hardware lab in Menlo Park, California. Canonical Group Ltd. and Red Hat Inc. were the first software vendors to validate their software on three of Facebook’s open hardware components.

Microsoft Corp. has been one of the most active proponents for the OCP since joining in 2014. The company looked to shift the OCP toward a more community-driven design approach with the contribution of its Project Olympus in October, a new kit that is only about 50 percent complete.

At OCP U.S Summit there will be keynote presentations from Microsoft, Intel, Facebook and others. There will also be a panel discussion featuring Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu; Mark Shaw, director of hardware engineering at Microsoft; Dave Peterson, director of hyperscale servers at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.; John Linville, principal engineer at Red Hat; and David Dale, director of industry standards at NetApp Inc.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

All of theCUBE’s coverage and interviews from the OCP U.S Summit will be uploaded onto SiliconANGLE. The guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE at OCP U.S Summit have not be finalized yet, but we will keep you updated.

Watch on the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel

All of theCUBE interviews from OCP U.S Summit will also be loaded onto SiliconANGLE’s dedicated YouTube channel.

Cubecasts

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on both SoundCloud and iTunes, which you can enjoy while on the go.

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