Within eight days of each other, the Open Data Center Alliance and the Open Compute Initiative held events in New York City. I’ve written about both these groups and their events on my blog, and I’m not here today to repeat my impressions or to compare the purposes of these two groups.
However, these groups both call for open designs, based on the open software world exemplified by Linux, and both call for increased standardization in data center design. Interestingly, both groups seem to welcome a wide range of participants, including vendors, developers, and end users. On closer examination, though, neither boasts a significant representation from the facility vendor community, although Future Facilities, a data center monitoring developer, did offer its support to the Open Data Center Alliance the day following the Open Compute Initiative’s Summit.