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Open Compute Project Foundation Announces a New Hardware-Software Co-design Strategy.

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Thursday, April 14, 2022
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AUSTIN, Texas, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the OCP Foundation, the nonprofit organization bringing hyperscale innovations to all, announced a new hardware-software co-design strategy that is exemplified by recent contributions to the OCP by Microsoft and Intel of the Scalable I/O (Input/Output) Virtualization (SIOV) specification, and a new collaboration with the SONiC Project now at the Linux Foundation.

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  • As part of the OCP's new hardwaresoftware co-design strategy we are pleased to have new contributions from Microsoft and Intel and continue our collaboration with the SONiC Project at the Linux Foundation," said George Tchaparian, CEO Open Compute Project Foundation.
  • Collaboration between the OCP and the Linux Foundation expands to include the SONiC Project.
  • In alignment with hardware-software co-design, collaboration continues around the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) project remaining at OCP and SONiC now at the Linux Foundation.
  • "As we focus on the software component of SONiC, we look forward to partnering with the Open Compute Foundation (OCP)on aligning hardware and specifications such as SAI."

IDCA Launches COVID-19 Online Global Data Center and Cloud Pandemic Initiatives

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Tuesday, April 28, 2020
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WASHINGTON, April 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --TheInternational Data Center Authority (IDCA) has announced that in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic it has launched a series of online initiatives to keep the data center, cloud, AI, IoT, information technology community informed, safe, and connected.

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  • WASHINGTON, April 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --TheInternational Data Center Authority (IDCA) has announced that in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic it has launched a series of online initiatives to keep the data center, cloud, AI, IoT, information technology community informed, safe, and connected.
  • In precedence, IDCA has moved all of its professional training, certification, and educational programs toonline platforms where professionals can now continue to advance their data center and cloud skillsets from home.
  • As the world's premier provider of data center and cloud training and certification programs, IDCA has made this move early on at the outbreak of the novel virus in February 2020.
  • Through the robust programs, professionals can start from Data Center Infrastructure Specialist (DCIS)or Cloud Infrastructure Specialist (CLIS) and advance to Data Center and Cloud Operation Managers (DCOMand CLOM) or Data Center and Cloud Infrastructure Experts (DCIE and CLIE), and even all the way up to Data Center and Cloud Authorities.