OPEN19

The SSIA was founded in 2016 as the Open19 Project. Born out of LinkedIn and spearheaded by Yuval Bachar, the project introduced a fully open standard for innovative "brick based" plug and play rack architectures, that brought hyperscale efficiencies to the mass market. With a unique powershelf design and brick cage that supported standardized server "brick" modules using a blind mate connector model for both data and power, the open source design created disruptive efficiencies, component re-use and cost reductions while remaining agnostic on technology within the server brick... In January 2021, Open19 joined the Linux Foundation as the LF's primary project for data center hardware innovation. Work began on a "v2" specifically through an open working group model that included a 48V native server brick and power shelf design, improvements to the popular blind mate connectors, support for higher data transfer options and the introduction of a standard liquid cooling specification.....