What is the SSIA ?
THE DATA CENTRE INTERVIEW
What is the SSIA ?
The Sustainable and Scalable
Infrastructure Alliance ( SSIA ) is a community-based organisation advancing infrastructure technologies and standards that power the digital world in a sustainable , scalable way .
The alliance supports the Open19 project , including its mature V1 and emerging V2 standard revisions , and aims to introduce additional projects based on community feedback and demand .
The SSIA ’ s missions include accelerating the adoption of disruptive technologies for data centre workloads that drive toward net zero carbon footprints , enabling data centre operators , suppliers and end users to collectively solve common challenges through open server , storage , and networking standards and creating solutions that enable use cases for data centre operators of all sizes .
Founded in 2016 as the Open19 Project , it joined the Linux Foundation in January 2021 as the LF ’ s primary project for data centre hardware innovation . A rebrand followed in August 2023 in order to more appropriately support the goals and initiative of a diverse community focused on infrastructure sustainability throughout the data centre and cloud technology supply chain .
an impenetrable web . Sustainability has a social component , especially where the infrastructure decisions meet the local community .
Q . WHAT CHALLENGES DO YOU EXPECT TO COME ACROSS ? AND HOW DO YOU PLAN TO NAVIGATE THAT ?
» Greenwashing is a real issue in the industry , where attaching a theoretical benefit without data becomes problematic . Data is the great equaliser – showing the data to support a climate neutral or net zero outcome can help clarify the positive impacts of a marketing push .
20 December 2023