Rackspace has publicly announced its affiliation with the OpenPOWER Foundation, and is now an official member. Aaron Sullivan, senior director and distinguished engineer at Rackspace, commented on the company’s membership in the OpenPOWER Foundation in a new blog:
“OpenPOWER is a community dedicated to opening access to the lowest-level parts of servers: chips, buses, boards, firmware, and so forth. We anticipate that this movement will bring increased freedom and value to two other communities that we participate in: OpenStack and the Open Compute Project. We think that by working within this new community, Rackspace can deliver improved performance, value, and features for our customers. That’s the news in a nutshell, but perhaps you’d like a little more detail. Why now? Why OpenPOWER? And what’s next? Those are good questions. The answers may surprise you.”
In addition, one year after its formation, the OpenPOWER Foundation has announced continued membership growth and increasing momentum in open server product design and development with dozens of products introduced and under development. There are now 80 members worldwide and the momentum continues with new systems, solutions and deployments planned for 2015.
Read Sullivan's blog here.