Welcome & Storage Project Introduction
The opening welcome to the storage track at the 2025 OCP Global Summit, hosted by Meta's Ross Stenfort with co-lead Lee Prudhomme and steering committee representative Mike Allison. It recaps 2024-2025 OCP storage milestones, the growth of the OCP Marketplace, and the CLA feedback process, then walks through the day's agenda and logistics.
Key Takeaways
- The OCP storage project is co-led by Ross Stenfort (Meta) and Lee Prudhomme, with Mike Allison as steering committee representative running the data center NVMe SSD spec feedback.
- 2024 milestones included open-source test cases, a ScaleFlux reference design, and data center SSD specification version 2.6; 2025 added the SAS specification 1.5 and LOG 1.0 contributions.
- The OCP Marketplace grew 140% year-over-year in views, with 30-plus storage listings and over 20 SSDs, two of which rank among the marketplace's top 20 most-viewed items.
- The CLA process lets non-authors comment on draft specs before contribution; more than 10 companies participate, contacting Mike Allison for NVMe SSD or Dave Landsman (WDC) for SAS.
- The agenda spans test, GPU, QLC, EDSFF/FDP, telemetry, flash-at-scale, NVMe interoperability, and drive regeneration talks, closing with a customer panel of Meta, Google, Dell, HP, and Microsoft.
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