Target and the OCP
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Target and the OCP
Target joined the OCP as a platinum member in April 2021 . footprint , service requirements , security and cooling have all changed for a micro data centre , compared to traditional data centres ,” the OCP experts explain . “ We are looking forward to having Target share their expertise and their unique requirements for large-scale retail with our community , and our community will also be sharing their challenges and solutions with Target and other retailers . This kind of collaboration and partnership is what OCP is all about . Target is committed to working with the OCP community to usher in a new era of Commodity Hardware designed for Enterprise workloads and improve the
“ Working together and open sourcing is not new for Target . Many of the retailer ’ s engineers have already been involved in various OCP Projects and we ’ ve seen tremendous value from their participation . Today ’ s announcement further demonstrates Target ’ s long-term commitment to advance and contribute to the open source community for the benefit of all ” - Bill Carter , CTO for the Open Compute Project Foundation .
“ We are very excited to join the OCP and partner with the community on new use cases for networking and edge computing . This type of open and increased collaboration will help us all create better technology that ’ s purpose-built for enterprise needs ” -
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