OCP
Open Compute Project (OCP)
Founded in 2011, the Open Compute Project (OCP) drives open, interoperable hardware designs and best practices for scalable data center infrastructure. Through collaborative engineering across servers, storage, networking, racks, and power, OCP enables multi-vendor ecosystems that improve efficiency, sustainability, and performance—helping hyperscalers and enterprises deploy cost-effective platforms optimized for AI, cloud, and high-performance workloads.
SNIA and the Open Compute Project formed an alliance to align vendor-neutral standards with open hardware specifications, ensuring interoperable, scalable infrastructure for modern AI and cloud deployments. By coordinating storage, memory, and data management standards with OCP platform designs, the partnership reduces integration friction, accelerates ecosystem adoption, and enables operators to deploy high-performance systems with greater efficiency and multi-vendor flexibility.
SNIA and OCP collaborate across storage, memory, networking, and AI infrastructure initiatives to ensure alignment between open hardware designs and interoperable standards. This includes coordinating on OCP storage device specifications—such as Datacenter NVMe SSD and SAS/SATA platforms—and associated test frameworks with SNIA storage standards; aligning composable memory architectures with SNIA interoperability efforts; advancing open networking specifications that improve data center efficiency; and integrating SNIA’s Storage.AI work with OCP’s Open Systems for AI to support high-performance, low-latency data services across AI training and inference environments.
