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The Open Lab – a first in Europe – launches in central London
CSsquared , Volta Data Centres and DatacenterDynamics have announced the launch of The Open Lab , in London UK . The facility is aimed at organisations needing to plan a migration to super efficient and highly cost effective open compute and open stack technologies , as first pioneered by the Open Compute Project .
The Open Lab mirrors the ethos and ambitions of a Facebook lab in Menlo Park , California . Service providers and enterprises will be able to deploy and test their compute workloads on OCP approved and OCP inspired hardware and software , in a controlled , independent and collaborative environment .
Volta Data Centres will house The Open Lab at its Clerkenwell facility , in the centre of London . It will be built and operated by CSsquared , an open stack and open hardware integrator . The lab is being supported by DCD which will be using it as a way of promoting the benefits of open hardware adoption to the European data centre community .
‘ We ’ re proud to be a founding member of the The Open Lab and look forward to welcoming the first organisations into this unique European test facility ,’ commented Jonathan Arnold , managing director at Volta Data Centres . ‘ We see a growing interest from European data centre operators to explore the benefits of open hardware and software in a controlled environment .’
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