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Bios It Launch Their Open Compute Project (Ocp) Solutions At The Ocp Summit In Paris
London, United Kingdom (October 30, 2014). BIOS IT, a leading manufacturer of high performance, low-powered server, virtualisation, storage and cloud solutions, is proud to present its ultra-scalable OCP range of solutions at the OCP Summit in Paris.
The BIOS IT OCP range was designed from the ground up to enable the delivery of the most efficient hardware for scalable computing with a key focus on power consumption, interoperability and costs.
The BIOS IT OCP Range includes all the critical components for an OCP deployment from racking and power to servers and storage. The BIOS IT OCP Rack has a centralised power shelf on rack instead of multiple power supply units in the server chassis. All nodes share this centralized power shelf, thus, providing higher energy efficiency while lowering capital costs. The compute range has been optimised for Intel Haswell E5-2600v3 CPUs and offers up to 3 dual socket nodes in 2U of rack space.
To complement the range of compute solution, the BIOS IT Storage JBOD with an impressive storage capacity of 30 SAS hard drives in a 2U chassis. The drawer-like innovative design allows housing for 15 hot-plug hard drives in each which can be swapped immediately when drive failures occur, saving lots of time and effort for maintenance and repair.
In addition to the OCP compliant hardware, BIOS IT have also integrated key software stacks from the open source community such as OpenStack and CEPH to provide a full turnkey solution for scale out cloud computing. Additional technologies are being tested and evaluated internally for other verticals such as HPC and Big Data.
Sam Ashdown, Business development manager of BIOS IT, says "Customers are demanding more and more performance, efficiency and management capabilities from their systems. For BIOS IT the OPC project represents the next step in driving down costs and increasing efficiencies at a data centre scale. We have helped to build a compliant range of optimised OCP solutions that will help deliver the level of performance our client’s desire."
About BIOS IT
BIOS IT is a UK based systems integrator specialising in the latest high-performance, power efficient IT solutions, catered primarily for the financial services sector and data centre arena. With a vested interest in power efficient scale-out technologies BIOS IT has developed of massively parallel compute solutions based on Intel and ARM low power technologies for the enterprise markets. This operation has expanded in recent years on an international scale, resulting in BIOS IT offices across Europe, Asia and the United States.
About Open Compute
The Open Compute Project Foundation is a rapidly growing community of engineers around the world whose mission is to design and enable the delivery of the most efficient server, storage and datacentre hardware designs for scalable computing. We believe that openly sharing ideas, specifications and other intellectual property is the key to maximizing innovation and reducing operational complexity in the scalable computing space. The Open Compute Project Foundation provides a structure in which individuals and organizations can share their intellectual property with Open Compute Projects.
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